fashion sense at the olympics

Hmm.

Aside from being THE pagan sporting event of every four years (well, it started in greece, and greece is the home of the pagan aka witchcraft gods), the Olympics also herald an increase in interest in the types of outfits worn by the athlethes. During Sydney 2000, we saw the introduction of friction-reducing suits worn by swimming athlethes and track athlethes. Apparently, they do work, and the 2000 Olympics was known to be one 'with the least amount of skin shown for swimming and track events'. This year's Olympics are an exception, maybe because they've finally realised that God gave them a very full-functioning skin, and all they need to do is get a bikini wax once every friday ( just put on something to hide your privates please).

If you noticed, skin-tight clothes at the sporting events are de-riguer especially since they reduce friction caused by flapping fabrics which tend to catch the wind and slow athlethes down by a millionth of a second, thereby costing him or her the race. It's kind of interesting when it comes to the various means which athlethes go through so that at least they can get their desired speed by not taking banned substances or resorting to a pill-oriented diet.

The expressions of various athlethes are also similarly varied, from grim smiles of failure to wild, scary grins which are supposed to convey estaticism, yet come across as silent war cries akin to maori facial intimidations (put scary maori warrior face here).

Yet, this event is supposed to bring people around the world together, but why all this hullabaloo about medal tallies? If you're here in the name of sports, just do your best and not be bothered by whether the guy or lady had their bikini wax on friday, don't you think that should be the case??

Cheers,

Crawldaddy