Let's go back to a nude Olympics

[TrogL]

...with protective gear for those sports requiring it.

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I'll make the case for it.

1. Extra cooling will improve performance
   
2. Extra air circulation in crotch area may prevent (eg. yeast) infection
   
3. Less restrain in male crotch area may prevent testicular cancer
   
4. No logos
   

Some other notes:

1. Athletes' number can be put on an armband or with magic marker (they're doing that already)
   
2. There's a lot LESS problems in societies favouring public nudity
   
3. Pixillation works
   

[ColbertWatcher]

1. Pixilation is electronic witchcraft as far as I'm concerned. n/t

[Evoman]

2. Then I could watch ALL the olypmic sports, and not just beach volleyball!

YES!!!



(kidding, kidding).

[Merlot]

11. What's up with the guys wearing tank tops?

REAL beach vollyball, they go shirtless!

[Evoman]

24. After Nipple-gate, you can't be too careful.

Even man nipples are consider too saucy.

Men gone wild: Olypmics Edition.

[sui generis]

3. and there would definitely be an increase in ratings

which is good for advertisers and good for the economy.

In anticipation of this I have taken my clothes off and done three laps around the living room, in slow motion.

[WillParkinson]

4. I'd have given Phelps a gold just for that!

Mmmmm....golden.

[LisaL]

5. What about winter olympics?

[TrogL]

6. One would presumably want to wear protective gear

Although during the Calgary Olympics there was a mini heat wave that made some athletes so uncomfortable nude may have worked for them.

[dysfunctional press]

21. or at least something to stop the whistling noise women would make doing camel spins...

:evilgrin:

[tridim]

32. LMFAO

Oh man, that just floored me. :rofl:

[YOY]

9. The Greeks never had one...

For the sake of frostbite we'll keep it the way it is.

[tridim]

7. Agreed. Except for weight lifting.

That probably wouldn't be pleasant to watch.

[TrogL]

10. I believe weight lifters use jock straps

and other supportive gear.

[Terran]

25. Heh. Beauty and the eye of the beholder, etc.

I'd sure as hell watch that. And no gear necessary, thank you.

[tridim]

31. It's not that weight lifters are ugly.

Just that I don't want to see them naked while cleaning and jerking 800 pounds above their heads.

I think there was a Seinfeld episode about "good naked and bad naked".

[Terran]

35. Oh sure, I know what you meant.

It's just that my ideas of good naked and bad naked are not quite in conformity with most peoples'. I'm of the 'bearish' persuasion and most people like me would love to see what you just described!

[TooBigaTent]

8. This would also help return the Olympics to their original purpose. They used to actually

stop wars for the Olympics!

Now, they have turned into corporate/nationalistic excesses that are much more obscene than a real, nude competition would be. And while I am torn by the use of them for "political" statements (depending on whose statement is being made - Yea Tommie & John), getting back to the original purpose of injecting some reason into the world would not be a bad thing.

It might even "civilize" us a little.

[lpbk2713]

12. One aspect of that proposal would creep me out.

The female gymnasts always look like little girls.

Watch for freeper viewership to increase tremendously if this idea were to go through.

[Merlot]

15. Well, some of them are girls

I was noticing that they are more muscular now, they used to be so skinny it was frightening. Well, except for the Chinese, they still look very thin.

[TrogL]

19. I'm hoping for the deadening effect

When everybody's nude, nobody is naked.

[YOY]

13. Not too sure the naked 16 year old gymnists would attract the right crowd...

But Gary Glitter could buy up all the seats in the arena for what it's worth...there's a nasty image. An arena full of dirty old men looking at underdeveloped 16 year old girls.

[TrogL]

16. They're already looking

...and will quickly get bored and move on to the next thing.

[Virginia Dare]

27. Good point. I don't think the Greeks were too concerned..

about pedophilia. But those were different times.

[TahitiNut]

14. Greco-Roman wrestling would then be true to its origins ... even for women.

:shrug:

[TechBear_Seattle]

18. I strongly disagree

Greco-Roman wrestling that is true to its origins does not require Jell-O. :toast:

[Dr. Strange]

23. Greatest post in the history of GD.

[Seeking Serenity]

17. And the survey says . . . [X]

Count me out. I have no desire to watch men in bouncing around sports without sufficient support and covering. And the male track contestants might have something to say about any required lack of support as they go about the 100-meter hurdles.

Or the female athlete who just happens to be on her period (to the extent the athletes at this level still have them) so everyone gets to see her string.

Thank you, no.

[Cleita]

20. But would we have to forbid the women to be spectators with the exception

of the unmarried girls, like they did in the original Olympics?

[dysfunctional press]

22. it would sure get more guys interested in figure-skating...

more camel-spins! more camel-spins!

[rug]

26. But not the weightlifters.

[hunter]

28. Something has got to be done about those high-tech swimsuits...

... that's for sure.

Broken world records all over the place.

[TrogL]

29. Especially if they're not available to everybody

ie. they're expensive or not available.

Skin is free.

[LisaL]

30. There are lot of things that are not available to everybody.

Including sports gear. I guess we should just wait until everyone can play.

[CraftyGal]

33. I see you are at it again, dear....

get a grip, a life, whatever.

CraftyGal

[Occam Bandage]

34. So you're saying you'd like to see this girl without her clothes?

Why don't you just have a seat right here.