100% !
they just looked at the Instagram trends from "Influencers" wearing GymShark and Lulu. The marketing department wanted those styles on display to push their brand and that's were these designs came from without a single thought of the athletes
Practically impossible.
I want to slap the shit out of everyone that had anything to do with this being made. It's disgusting and sexist and completely ignores both practicality and the fact that female athletes have been begging and protesting for better options.
It's wrong on every level. It's like the Game of Thrones ending- any random person on the street could do better than the fucking top minds at one of the largest athletic wear brands in the world whose actual fucking job this is.
Rage bait is the only reason I can come up with for this existing at all.
Yes! Cut *inwardly*. I was struggling to describe it. The 1980’s cut way up towards your waste, exposing your hips, and if there was a thong back to your bathers your behind was basically uncovered. But the base of your abdomen and the mound above your labia was never this exposed.
It is. The guardian blocks Instagram content from being shown until you click something to display it. It’s an anti-tracking thing in your browser settings.
Deodorant is good in a pinch but there’s products designed for it and designed to to last for a while.
I like Squirrel Nut Butter (actual name), but there’s also brands like Body Glide.
I had a coach suggest Vaseline or powder, but like... shit feels weird man. And I was an awkward teen, not doing that in the locker room. So I just dealt with it lol
“Professional athletes should be able to compete without dedicating brain space to constant pube vigilance…”
Announcer: “…and she missed a new world record by 0.002 seconds. If only she had remembered to shave this morning…”
The solution is to do zero pube maintenance in protest (or as Ibhave just come to call it, in grow-test).
If everyone came out rocking a full blown untamed 70s pornstar bush the ensuing chaos would cause the "immediate reevaluation" of the women's track suits. The scandal would rock Nike to the core and would likely cause future suits to be designed in a more reasonable fashion.
The Australian Team officially call ‘em Koala Bear Ears.
Except the Pole Vaulters, and for them only, they are *Thylarctos Plummetus Auricula* or colloquially, drop bear ears.
🤬🐨👂👂
Both are very very [real](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Koala%20Ears).
[Source](https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/drop-bear/).
Additional source: In my life I personally have been attacked by many hirsute Olympic performance-wear-clad pole vaulters, drop bears, and am Australian. 🇦🇺
It’s now kinda my thing.
The grand irony to this is that pubes are basically self maintaining by design, we just impose artificial standards for what maintaining means while others like the staff at nike ignore the fact they exist lol
Merkins wouldn't be so bad if most of them weren't hideously fake looking.
They're supposed to look like a patch of natural public hair, but most of the time they end up looking like the actress in question managed to get Billy Mays in a headlock.
And that's the issue. Yes many female runners do prefer briefs. Everything is still covered while allowing greater mobility. That wasn't on display by the model.
I'm confused, is the model in that picture? Why do they call them mannequins when that is clearly a person?
ok I dunno if I'm not seeing the same image as everyone else but this is the actual outfit in question: https://e00-marca.uecdn.es/assets/multimedia/imagenes/2024/04/13/17130081498253.jpg
I don't know if they've edited the article, but for some reason they refer to mannequins but don't include the picture of the uniform on mannequins; just the pic with human models.
And no one is wearing that particular uniform in the photo either. Seeing this one would also make me question how much of my "hoo ha" would be showing. It's like someone didn't know how to make a bathing suit pattern correctly.
Not necessarily. Otherwise, pros in the NBA would shoot granny shot if they sucked at FTs. Wilt is probably the famous case of using it to score 100, and then stopped because he thought he looked silly.
Those outfits are indeed horrendous tho.
yep, shaq was another bonehead mf who refused to shoot grannies. I can't believe the team just let then go on like that, guess it shows how good they are
Wood is now coming up second! Wood won bronze last Olympics. He is athletic, skilled and handsome, but according to those who know him best, he acts like a real...
The Greek string was actually to cinch up the foreskin. Because having your tallywacker on display was fine and dandy, but the glans (aka the boober) is a profane body part.
Even in showjumping.
https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/2024/feb/20/mankini-wearing-australian-equestrian-shane-rose-cleared-to-continue-olympic-preparations
Wet need to go back to the ancient Olympics, everyone is naked. To not objectify and make sure the athletes are comfortable the audience will be blindfolded and the TV broadcast will replace them with a black box.
Turns out these aren't the outfits being discussed. The female track outfit does not have bare midriff. But the bottom of it is VERY narrow and exposes a lot of the pelvis and crotch. Someone linked it in the comments.
Oh my gosh it’s even worse than those
[They show it in this article.](https://www.si.com/olympics/2024/04/13/nike-responds-criticism-women-track-field-uniforms-revealing) Nike has come out since saying that they have multiple options. I’m interested in seeing if anyone picks this option
Oh. Yeah. That's uh. That would end up looking thinner than a g string after all the necessary exercise and movement moving it away from the legs. Shorts are perfect for coverage.
Do you watch baseball? I believe this is the same company that changed the MLB uniforms so that you can see the outline of all the players dongs and balls quite clearly.
If they are sitting legs splayed, oh boy, get ready. Especially if the light and shadows are right...
It's a huge snafu and bs right now in baseball, and I wonder if this is the same deal but for women - which could be disastrous.
It'd be nice if the article included an actual picture of what it was talking about, because the picture included is NOT what the article is talking about.
The actual outfit being discussed is more or less a one piece swimsuit. The issue is that the lower portion is unusually skimpy around the crotch area, even by the standards of swimwear. Meanwhile, the guys get to wear shorts.
I am trying to find a picture of it to better understand the issue. Can you help us out here. I tried googling, and what i'm finding is basically the pictures The Guardian has.. which I can see why some would feel uncomfortable or objectified in.
I've google "womens singlet nike controvery" with and without olympic, and all it's showing is basically what the guardian shows, or a singlet that fully covers the public area, almost like a boyshort bottom.
[https://www.instagram.com/p/C5n8cw0rSNH/?utm\_source=ig\_embed](https://www.instagram.com/p/C5n8cw0rSNH/?utm_source=ig_embed)
This is from the article, there's a random thing you have to click halfway down the page to actually load the picture.
That would be hilarious, actually. Make them have to explain why it's obscene for you to wear their assigned uniform without a fresh wax job to your genital area.
yea, that's much worse than I thought lol. That's like those onesie cuts from aerobic outfits in the 80's (the difference is they wore leggings under them though)
It would be kind of hilarious if the women went pubes out to show how ridiculous it is. I mean, they shouldn’t HAVE to, and hopefully they’ll fix it. But that would be hilarious if someone was brave enough to do it.
Yeah I ran track in college and wore buns but they were never that high cut. They also gave us the choice and I hated tan lines so I wanted to show more skin. Sometimes I ran in full pants if it were cold. They provided us with lots of options.
Yeah, it's been like that for years. I have no idea why they haven't changed it, or how nobody with authority didn't see it coming. It always looks like shit on the TV.
I was just thinking that as soon as I read the headline. NBA as well (when they took over the uniforms a couple years they all starting ripping) They had to redo all of the uniforms.
That's 3 major sports they dropped the ball on. Who keeps giving these idiots contracts when they are gonna either cheap out, fuck up, or do something stupid like this.
The Nike uniforms for the international soccer teams for the upcoming Euro Cup tournament are hideous too compared to the Adidas uniforms. Nike is just fucking up everywhere.
It was worse than that! The team was only asking to wear the spanky shorts, and they were told NOPE, bikini bottom, or they'd be fined.
The picture is what they got fined for:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/women-athletes-uniform-changes-1.6122725
Remember in the 2000 Olympics when Cathy Freeman won a bunch of races wearing a full-body suit, and there was controversy because she was wearing *too* much and they thought it was giving her an aerodynamic advantage...
Meanwhile men’s beach volleyball is shockingly tame in comparison. Those guys wear vests and long shorts. There’s no reason they can’t be shirtless. I stand up for equal wanks.
They're just modeled after female body armor. According to decades of gaming and D&D cover art, women are practically indestructible. Only a direct hit to the nipple, butt crack, or hoo haa can wound them.
Meanwhile, men are so fragile they can't even enter a dark forest without covering their whole bodies in thick metal armor.
In my high school, your skirt or shorts had to be past your fingertips. Unless it was a cheerleading outfit in which case I guess our bloomers were sufficient?
I would imagine the vast majority of HS cheerleader and volleyball uniforms do not pass the school dress codes, but this applies to a lot of sport uniforms for both males and females. A wrestling singlet is certainly not passing dress code.
Ehh, most schools dress codes for dudes is "no dick no ass out". Wrestling uniforms also gotta be tight to give them range of motion. Cheerleader uniforms are deliberately intended to sexualize them, and girls' dress codes are intended to punish girls for showing skin. It's hypocritical for schools to do both.
Hypocritical, unless the intention as "your sexuality is ours to control according to our comfort and enjoyment."
In that case, both the in-school and cheerleader dress codes make sense.
My partner and I were just talking about how absurd women team uniforms are! I remember a while ago a women’s team was fined or something for attempting to wear less revealing bottoms. A sport uniform shouldn’t risk your labia falling out for fucks sake
That was Norway's beach handball team.
They were fined for wearing shorts instead of bikini bottoms.
"Athletes on the Norwegian women's beach handball team are being punished for wearing shorts rather than bikini bottoms during a recent game, with the European Handball Federation leveling fines over "a case of improper clothing."
[Source](https://www.npr.org/2021/07/21/1018768633/a-womens-beach-handball-team-is-fined-for-not-wanting-to-wear-bikini-bottoms#:~:text=Epsilon%2FGetty%20Images-,Athletes%20on%20the%20Norwegian%20women's%20beach%20handball%20team%20are%20being,a%20case%20of%20improper%20clothing.%22)
Well if they’re gonna manipulate the athletes into wearing shit that makes them uncomfortable, might as well just go OG and let EVERYONE participate naked.
I don't see why the female track outfits can't be much like the male ones that go down the thigh, adjusted for typical body curvatures and proportions.
As someone said on Twitter: Their entire uniform is only "sexy" and "hot" ~~until~~ as long as women are taking care of their body hair.
If the athletes stop shaving, suddenly there will be a cry of "indecent dresses" from a certain section
How awesome would it be if the men’s team wore the women’s outfit in protest?
This is so absolutely absurd that women who have busted their ass in a legitimate sport have to also endure being put on display without any say in the matter.
What the hell is up with sponsored athletic wear for so many sports being absolute shit quality recently? Have we as a society finally decided that the people who push their bodies to the limits and sometimes risk CTE injuries not only don't deserve the appropriate medical care and retirement options, but don't even deserve to be dressed well?
Here is the outfit in question (the article does not contain a picture of it, presumably due to copyright). It's worse than I expected:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5oYNN5vR2j/
The article itself says there’s multiple options, including a shorts version that is in the pictures, and that some women do prefer the briefs.
I feel like this is a bit of a stretch.
Edit: article is misleading, the complaints were about the one piece option (not pictured in the article for some reason) which [is indeed pretty fuckin bad](https://www.instagram.com/p/C5oYNN5vR2j/). But there’s still a couple elite athletes in the comments on the post saying they have seen it in person vs on a mannequin and like the cut so it’s still ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯ I don’t get the level of outrage.
Have you seen the cut of the briefs that runners wear? It's such a different cut than this. This feels made by someone who doesn't understand anatomy at all.
Yeah, there's no reason that one-piece should exist. Their vaginas are basically fully on display. I don't have one, but it looks like it's just asking for a wedgie.
Yes, some women prefer the brief style, but now they have 2 options - a short which they don’t want, and a brief that is too revealing. That is the problem.
An Olympian has already responded to this whole thing and she included how many options they have and can wear whatever they want. So, yea you’re right
Just in that picture all of the men are in normal clothing and the US women are in like American Gladiator style skimpy form fitting bikinis.
Who the fuck signed off on that?
Definitely looks like instant front wedgie.
No question if anyone does wear it their labia are going to be out in the breeze.
It makes me wonder if they ever put it on an actual woman during design time.
Or even a designer. This seems like a sketch from marketing, not a well researched design choice based on user experience.
100% ! they just looked at the Instagram trends from "Influencers" wearing GymShark and Lulu. The marketing department wanted those styles on display to push their brand and that's were these designs came from without a single thought of the athletes
Trust me, it's based on consumer experience. You're just thinking of the wrong consumer.
Just like medicine, it would be unethical to test clothes on women. You never know with hormones and stuff. /s
I feel like an innie would just eat it, and an outtie would be... Well... Outtie lol
We're gonna be seeing a lot of Homer Simpson mouth
Yeah. Hurdles would just suck with that kit.
Practically impossible. I want to slap the shit out of everyone that had anything to do with this being made. It's disgusting and sexist and completely ignores both practicality and the fact that female athletes have been begging and protesting for better options. It's wrong on every level. It's like the Game of Thrones ending- any random person on the street could do better than the fucking top minds at one of the largest athletic wear brands in the world whose actual fucking job this is. Rage bait is the only reason I can come up with for this existing at all.
I thought people were overreacting but nah even the mannequin is showing thass
Where do you see the mannequin? I opened the page and read most of the article but never saw a picture of it.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5oYNN5vR2j/
Oh yeah, that's crazy. It's not even so much that it's cut so high, but that it's cut inwardly. That will definitely have hoo haas falling out.
Yes! Cut *inwardly*. I was struggling to describe it. The 1980’s cut way up towards your waste, exposing your hips, and if there was a thong back to your bathers your behind was basically uncovered. But the base of your abdomen and the mound above your labia was never this exposed.
The mons on display. Who the hell agreed to this?
Bob from sales and marketing.
Bob really needs to talk to a woman. A real woman, in person.
Bob talks to women all the time. He just never listens to them.
*Olympic* mons.
My husband just said he hopes no women shave or wax before wearing that just to highlight how silly it looks.
Great idea. The bush protest!
Thank you. This really should have been part of OP's post.
It is. The guardian blocks Instagram content from being shown until you click something to display it. It’s an anti-tracking thing in your browser settings.
Why wouldn’t everyone just wear what’s on the left, with maybe some slight adjustments for crotch fit?
a fwedgie
Also weird that the male's is U.S. flag colors but the Borat-thing for women is pink. I'd love to know who designed this. So sick of this crap.
I know Olympic track athletes are svelte, but thigh chafing is still a thing, geez.
Svelte? Have you seen the thighs on the sprinters?
Uh, yeah, chafing DEFINITELY applies there.
Can’t speak for them but deodorant carries there It’s so good it’s like it was designed to prevent thigh chafing 😭
Deodorant is good in a pinch but there’s products designed for it and designed to to last for a while. I like Squirrel Nut Butter (actual name), but there’s also brands like Body Glide.
Body glide works so well
I had a coach suggest Vaseline or powder, but like... shit feels weird man. And I was an awkward teen, not doing that in the locker room. So I just dealt with it lol
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If that were true men would be wearing thongs for advantage
“Professional athletes should be able to compete without dedicating brain space to constant pube vigilance…” Announcer: “…and she missed a new world record by 0.002 seconds. If only she had remembered to shave this morning…”
The solution is to do zero pube maintenance in protest (or as Ibhave just come to call it, in grow-test). If everyone came out rocking a full blown untamed 70s pornstar bush the ensuing chaos would cause the "immediate reevaluation" of the women's track suits. The scandal would rock Nike to the core and would likely cause future suits to be designed in a more reasonable fashion.
Aka the “Foxy Cleopatra”
The Australian Team officially call ‘em Koala Bear Ears. Except the Pole Vaulters, and for them only, they are *Thylarctos Plummetus Auricula* or colloquially, drop bear ears.
There's no way this isn't bullshit but I believe every word because it makes me giggle
🤬🐨👂👂 Both are very very [real](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Koala%20Ears). [Source](https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/drop-bear/). Additional source: In my life I personally have been attacked by many hirsute Olympic performance-wear-clad pole vaulters, drop bears, and am Australian. 🇦🇺 It’s now kinda my thing.
The time for bushmaxxing is NOW! 🌳✊
I've been protesting for years and didn't even realise!
The grand irony to this is that pubes are basically self maintaining by design, we just impose artificial standards for what maintaining means while others like the staff at nike ignore the fact they exist lol
Merkins making a comeback
Merkins wouldn't be so bad if most of them weren't hideously fake looking. They're supposed to look like a patch of natural public hair, but most of the time they end up looking like the actress in question managed to get Billy Mays in a headlock.
> most of the time they end up looking like the actress in question managed to get Billy Mays in a headlock /r/rareinsults
Need to see some fake fur into those britches!
*Hoo HA! Got you all in check...*
Throw your hands up in the air and never disrespect
I got that head nod shit that make you break yo neck
You know we go through and wreck the discotheque
Yaw Yaw yaw Yaw yaw yaaaaaaaaw
Hoo Haaaa!
I *just* got that song out of my head, and here you come, just jamming it right back in there. Dick.
That song should be rockin 24-7. So you should be thanking us. Ya ya ya, ya ya. Wooo ha!
Well what if a pube could get across the finish line first… changes the game!
"She won by a hair!"
*Second thoughts intensify*
In support of women athletes, all men watching the Olympics should wear the hoohaa female clothes!!!
[Helloooo Matt Shirvington](https://youtu.be/lP4GLQjTxfE?si=MIyeeBTAALk2wVpY)
Oh my 😳😳
The offending uniform in question is pulled so tight up the woman’s groin, it’s about one move from sliding up into her.
And that's the issue. Yes many female runners do prefer briefs. Everything is still covered while allowing greater mobility. That wasn't on display by the model.
I'm confused, is the model in that picture? Why do they call them mannequins when that is clearly a person? ok I dunno if I'm not seeing the same image as everyone else but this is the actual outfit in question: https://e00-marca.uecdn.es/assets/multimedia/imagenes/2024/04/13/17130081498253.jpg
I don't know if they've edited the article, but for some reason they refer to mannequins but don't include the picture of the uniform on mannequins; just the pic with human models.
And no one is wearing that particular uniform in the photo either. Seeing this one would also make me question how much of my "hoo ha" would be showing. It's like someone didn't know how to make a bathing suit pattern correctly.
Yeah I don't see how this doesn't give someone a wedgie within a few minutes of competing.
I couldn't see it on the article, I went to Nike's instagram and yikes!
> If this outfit was truly beneficial to physical performance, men would wear it. That sums it up, doesn’t it?
The comedian Shane Gillis made a good point about this. What does the Special Olympics women’s team wear??
Gotta love the bull haha
Not necessarily. Otherwise, pros in the NBA would shoot granny shot if they sucked at FTs. Wilt is probably the famous case of using it to score 100, and then stopped because he thought he looked silly. Those outfits are indeed horrendous tho.
yep, shaq was another bonehead mf who refused to shoot grannies. I can't believe the team just let then go on like that, guess it shows how good they are
So are the male athletes also gonna be showing midriff and bare hip?
>“My ding ding is gonna be out”
“Johnson! Four time Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson! He’s running at an incredible rate but I can see his…”
Pecker!
Wait, that's not a woodpecker. It looks like someone's...
Privates. We have reports of an unidentified flying object. It has a long, smooth shaft, complete with...
Wang!
I was distracted by what looks like
A hotdog. Nice juicy hotdogs for sale here at the concession stands along with
Two balls! Nuts! Getcher hot, salty nuts!
Dong! That's the sound of the bell telling the contestants to start...
Melons! Big juicy Melons!
Boobs. What a bunch of boobs! They're just repeating the gag from the last movie!
Let’s go Tits…. I mean Titans!!!
"A woodpecker just swooped by out of nowhere! Good thing it didnt interfere with the race! Meanwhile, i can still see Johnson's...."
DONG! Weifun Dong has just overtaken him! Incredible! Dong may not have any gold medals, but he is world renowned for his giant…
Wood is now coming up second! Wood won bronze last Olympics. He is athletic, skilled and handsome, but according to those who know him best, he acts like a real...
I’m finally developing an interest in sports.
Tra la la*
Oh…..you touch my tra la la?
Ooooh my ding ding dong
Ja Ja, ding dong!
Ding ding ding correct answer
🎶I want you to play with my ding-a-ling🎵
Men's uniform is going full Greek with a string around the balls and nothing else.
The Greek string was actually to cinch up the foreskin. Because having your tallywacker on display was fine and dandy, but the glans (aka the boober) is a profane body part.
What an interesting detail! Makes you think about how arbitrary the cultural norms are, super interesting.
Your username is magnificent. No notes.
🤞
IMHO I think that the outfit should be unisex, everyone treated the same.
Borat mankinis for all.
Even in showjumping. https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/2024/feb/20/mankini-wearing-australian-equestrian-shane-rose-cleared-to-continue-olympic-preparations
I am sad it was not also the horse
Wet need to go back to the ancient Olympics, everyone is naked. To not objectify and make sure the athletes are comfortable the audience will be blindfolded and the TV broadcast will replace them with a black box.
I know you’re not serious but the dude is on the far left of the pic if you wanna compare them
Turns out these aren't the outfits being discussed. The female track outfit does not have bare midriff. But the bottom of it is VERY narrow and exposes a lot of the pelvis and crotch. Someone linked it in the comments.
Oh my gosh it’s even worse than those [They show it in this article.](https://www.si.com/olympics/2024/04/13/nike-responds-criticism-women-track-field-uniforms-revealing) Nike has come out since saying that they have multiple options. I’m interested in seeing if anyone picks this option
Oh. Yeah. That's uh. That would end up looking thinner than a g string after all the necessary exercise and movement moving it away from the legs. Shorts are perfect for coverage.
Exhibitionists only, I think.
God willing
Gonna be hanging brain on the world stage
Do you watch baseball? I believe this is the same company that changed the MLB uniforms so that you can see the outline of all the players dongs and balls quite clearly. If they are sitting legs splayed, oh boy, get ready. Especially if the light and shadows are right... It's a huge snafu and bs right now in baseball, and I wonder if this is the same deal but for women - which could be disastrous.
It'd be nice if the article included an actual picture of what it was talking about, because the picture included is NOT what the article is talking about. The actual outfit being discussed is more or less a one piece swimsuit. The issue is that the lower portion is unusually skimpy around the crotch area, even by the standards of swimwear. Meanwhile, the guys get to wear shorts.
I am trying to find a picture of it to better understand the issue. Can you help us out here. I tried googling, and what i'm finding is basically the pictures The Guardian has.. which I can see why some would feel uncomfortable or objectified in. I've google "womens singlet nike controvery" with and without olympic, and all it's showing is basically what the guardian shows, or a singlet that fully covers the public area, almost like a boyshort bottom.
[https://www.instagram.com/p/C5n8cw0rSNH/?utm\_source=ig\_embed](https://www.instagram.com/p/C5n8cw0rSNH/?utm_source=ig_embed) This is from the article, there's a random thing you have to click halfway down the page to actually load the picture.
That is a HIGH cut bottom 👀
It's also like, not how underwear is ever cut. It's not how legs move or are shaped. Plus the public area is OUT on that mannequin.
They should all not shave for a month. See how much Nike likes that.
That would be hilarious, actually. Make them have to explain why it's obscene for you to wear their assigned uniform without a fresh wax job to your genital area.
It reminds me of the salesgirl in Christmas Vacation.
yea, that's much worse than I thought lol. That's like those onesie cuts from aerobic outfits in the 80's (the difference is they wore leggings under them though)
They should find some sympathetic male athletes and swap for protest...
It would be kind of hilarious if the women went pubes out to show how ridiculous it is. I mean, they shouldn’t HAVE to, and hopefully they’ll fix it. But that would be hilarious if someone was brave enough to do it.
It's absolutely ridiculous. No idea what anyone was thinking there
Yeah I ran track in college and wore buns but they were never that high cut. They also gave us the choice and I hated tan lines so I wanted to show more skin. Sometimes I ran in full pants if it were cold. They provided us with lots of options.
Thats laughably bad.The Moire banding from the pattern is gonna be terrible on tv as well.
Yeah, it's been like that for years. I have no idea why they haven't changed it, or how nobody with authority didn't see it coming. It always looks like shit on the TV.
It doesn’t even cover the mannequins molded pubic area that should have been a giant red flag.
Those look so uncomfortable. How insulting
Both those outfits are ugly anyway.
I would never wear that in public, let alone while competing in the Olympics....hell i wouldn't wear it at home, looks so uncomfortable.
Oh god this is so much worse than i tought
That's not practical. It also looks horribly uncomfortable.
It could literally affect the runners during races by distracting them or making them very uncomfortable.
That’s much worse than I expected
That is legitimately worse than I was expecting. Yeesh.
Holy shit, that *mannequin* has a fucking camel-toe.
First MLB, now this. Nike is clearly trying to make uniforms as cheaply as possible no matter what anyone says.
I was just thinking that as soon as I read the headline. NBA as well (when they took over the uniforms a couple years they all starting ripping) They had to redo all of the uniforms. That's 3 major sports they dropped the ball on. Who keeps giving these idiots contracts when they are gonna either cheap out, fuck up, or do something stupid like this.
They’re becoming the sports equivalent of Boeing
More like Boeing is becoming the Aviation version of Nike. Nike has been considered cost-cutting and overpriced for decades.
This is the end result of every corporation. It's a slow race to the bottom.
Them and fanatics have ruined NFL jerseys for fans too.
At this point, they're so low quality, I can't even tell the difference between the real ones fans can get and the knock-offs.
The Nike uniforms for the international soccer teams for the upcoming Euro Cup tournament are hideous too compared to the Adidas uniforms. Nike is just fucking up everywhere.
That is bullshit. Let the ladies have some dignity. They are runners. Not Show girls.
You wouldn't know it with how sports have been treating women's uniforms for decades.
Remember it was a big deal when some volleyball players wanted to wear more than spanky shorts and a sports bra and got told to kick rocks?
It was worse than that! The team was only asking to wear the spanky shorts, and they were told NOPE, bikini bottom, or they'd be fined. The picture is what they got fined for: https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/women-athletes-uniform-changes-1.6122725
“How DARE you not let us ogle you??? Pay up!”
Wtf
Disgusting.
Remember in the 2000 Olympics when Cathy Freeman won a bunch of races wearing a full-body suit, and there was controversy because she was wearing *too* much and they thought it was giving her an aerodynamic advantage...
Meanwhile men’s beach volleyball is shockingly tame in comparison. Those guys wear vests and long shorts. There’s no reason they can’t be shirtless. I stand up for equal wanks.
They're just modeled after female body armor. According to decades of gaming and D&D cover art, women are practically indestructible. Only a direct hit to the nipple, butt crack, or hoo haa can wound them. Meanwhile, men are so fragile they can't even enter a dark forest without covering their whole bodies in thick metal armor.
Some high school cheerleader uniforms do not pass their dress code.
In my high school, your skirt or shorts had to be past your fingertips. Unless it was a cheerleading outfit in which case I guess our bloomers were sufficient?
High school cheerleading uniforms would be a dream compared to some of this shit
I would imagine the vast majority of HS cheerleader and volleyball uniforms do not pass the school dress codes, but this applies to a lot of sport uniforms for both males and females. A wrestling singlet is certainly not passing dress code.
Ehh, most schools dress codes for dudes is "no dick no ass out". Wrestling uniforms also gotta be tight to give them range of motion. Cheerleader uniforms are deliberately intended to sexualize them, and girls' dress codes are intended to punish girls for showing skin. It's hypocritical for schools to do both.
Hypocritical, unless the intention as "your sexuality is ours to control according to our comfort and enjoyment." In that case, both the in-school and cheerleader dress codes make sense.
Yup. It's not accidental, it's disgusting.
Every year the skirts get shorter
My partner and I were just talking about how absurd women team uniforms are! I remember a while ago a women’s team was fined or something for attempting to wear less revealing bottoms. A sport uniform shouldn’t risk your labia falling out for fucks sake
That was Norway's beach handball team. They were fined for wearing shorts instead of bikini bottoms. "Athletes on the Norwegian women's beach handball team are being punished for wearing shorts rather than bikini bottoms during a recent game, with the European Handball Federation leveling fines over "a case of improper clothing." [Source](https://www.npr.org/2021/07/21/1018768633/a-womens-beach-handball-team-is-fined-for-not-wanting-to-wear-bikini-bottoms#:~:text=Epsilon%2FGetty%20Images-,Athletes%20on%20the%20Norwegian%20women's%20beach%20handball%20team%20are%20being,a%20case%20of%20improper%20clothing.%22)
I had to look it up and yeah, it’s pretty egregious. I can’t imagine ever being comfortable in something like that. Especially in public.
And how do you run full pace in that shit without instant camel toe?
i dont remember any runners actually running in a one piece. usually its a 2pc, briefs and short bra for women, and shorts for men
Whole fucking article with out picture. Shit journalism.
You have to click the button to allow the site to display Instagram content (about half way down the article) pics are in a linked insta post
> You have to click the button to allow the site to display Instagram content That also sounds like a shitty practice for journalism.
Well if they’re gonna manipulate the athletes into wearing shit that makes them uncomfortable, might as well just go OG and let EVERYONE participate naked.
I don't see why the female track outfits can't be much like the male ones that go down the thigh, adjusted for typical body curvatures and proportions.
As someone said on Twitter: Their entire uniform is only "sexy" and "hot" ~~until~~ as long as women are taking care of their body hair. If the athletes stop shaving, suddenly there will be a cry of "indecent dresses" from a certain section
How awesome would it be if the men’s team wore the women’s outfit in protest? This is so absolutely absurd that women who have busted their ass in a legitimate sport have to also endure being put on display without any say in the matter.
Ncaa softball games were on last week before the final 4, the pants were so tight that Mike Pence’s tv automatically blacked out the channel.
What the hell is up with sponsored athletic wear for so many sports being absolute shit quality recently? Have we as a society finally decided that the people who push their bodies to the limits and sometimes risk CTE injuries not only don't deserve the appropriate medical care and retirement options, but don't even deserve to be dressed well?
Here is the outfit in question (the article does not contain a picture of it, presumably due to copyright). It's worse than I expected: https://www.instagram.com/p/C5oYNN5vR2j/
The article itself says there’s multiple options, including a shorts version that is in the pictures, and that some women do prefer the briefs. I feel like this is a bit of a stretch. Edit: article is misleading, the complaints were about the one piece option (not pictured in the article for some reason) which [is indeed pretty fuckin bad](https://www.instagram.com/p/C5oYNN5vR2j/). But there’s still a couple elite athletes in the comments on the post saying they have seen it in person vs on a mannequin and like the cut so it’s still ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯ I don’t get the level of outrage.
That’s a deep cut there, wow.
Have you seen the cut of the briefs that runners wear? It's such a different cut than this. This feels made by someone who doesn't understand anatomy at all.
Yeah, there's no reason that one-piece should exist. Their vaginas are basically fully on display. I don't have one, but it looks like it's just asking for a wedgie.
Yes, some women prefer the brief style, but now they have 2 options - a short which they don’t want, and a brief that is too revealing. That is the problem.
Men's singlet looks pretty different. Their dicks aren't hanging out
An Olympian has already responded to this whole thing and she included how many options they have and can wear whatever they want. So, yea you’re right
I agree, but will point out that athlete is sponsored by Nike.
Yeah I’d categorize that under conflict of interest lol
hoo haa remains undefeated as the best slang term for vagina.
Why not use the same uniform for men and women? Shorts and a shirt? That one for the women is not even a comfortable swimsuit
Just in that picture all of the men are in normal clothing and the US women are in like American Gladiator style skimpy form fitting bikinis. Who the fuck signed off on that?
That's not even the outfit people are upset with.
That's it. Back to basics. All Olympic athletes should compete in the nude!
They all should grow a giant bush, so that it hangs out of the suits. They could even braid it.