• @chiliedogg
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    221 month ago

    It’s beach volleyball. In the 2020(2021) Tokyo games there was a lot of controversy because the men could wear loose-fittings shorts and shirts, but the women were required to wear bikinis with no more than 10cm of cloth along the side.

    After a lot of backlash to the sexism of the uniform rules, they relaxed them this year. Some chose to still wear skimpy stuff, but it was noonger a requirement.

    • @brucethemoose
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      71 month ago

      WTF, what was the justification for that rule before they changed it?

      • Cethin
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        121 month ago

        It’s the Olympics. They don’t need to justify things. Their entire purpose is to make money by selling ads. This is obviously to get more viewership by requiring the women to be almost naked.

      • @chiliedogg
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        61 month ago

        The idea was that nobody would watch women play without them being sexy for the cameras.

        It was disgusting.