...Tak Perlu Bikini Untuk Bolatampar Pantai Olimpik 2012...

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Bikinis No Longer Required For Women’s Olympic Beach Volleyball                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Posted: March 27, 2012                                               
                                       
                                                                                       

Goodbye bikinis. Women volleyball players at the 2012 London Olympics will not have to wear bikinis during competition. A new rule announced today states that female athletes will be allowed to wear shorts and t-shirts during this year’s World Games.
Yahoo reports that women volleyball players have been wearing bikinis since the sport was introduced at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Players were also allowed to wear body suits in colder weather.
The International Olympic Committee said that women may wear ”shorts of a maximum length of (1.18 inches) above the knee, and sleeved or sleeveless tops.”
Richard Baker, a spokesman for the International Volleyball Federation, said that the rule change was made out of respect for the cultural beliefs of some of the countries that will be participating at the Olympics. Baker said:

“Many of these countries have religious and cultural requirements, so the uniform needed to be more flexible.”

This year’s Olympic games will also see another change for women’s volleyball. Unlike past world games, the competition will not be decided by world rankings. Instead, several qualifying tournaments will be held to determine the field. The new rule will also be in place for the five Continental Cup qualifying competitions which involve more than 14o nations.

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Of course, sebab ini termasuk dalam kategori sukan. Ini barulah ada peningkatan (improvement) sikit. Lainlah kalau program realiti nyanyian/tarian ada peserta wanita memakai pakaian menjolok mata, program-program tersebut langsung tiada peningkatan dari segi pemakaian oleh peserta wanita.

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Beach volleyball bikinis up Olympic heat!


Germany's Katrin Holtwick takes part in a practice session with kinesio tape on her stomach at the Olympic beach volleyball main court at the Horse Guards Parade.

Say the words "beach volleyball" and you can be sure that someone will make a joke about scantily clad women.

British media coverage of the sport in the run-up to the Olympics focused on the question of whether the women players would wear bikinis if it rained. The clear implication was that if they covered up, the game would lose much of its appeal.

On the face of it, such attitudes place women athletes in a lose-lose situation. They have to be sexy to get noticed but they're not taken seriously as sportswomen because they're sexy.

But top women players say they're comfortable in their bikinis. They love the beach culture that gave birth to their sport, and they take pride in their athletic physiques. "The female body is a masterpiece. Everyone likes to look at the female body, especially in dynamic, athletic sport," said Natalie Cook.

Her achievements—gold medallist at Sydney in 2000 and Australia's first woman athlete in any sport to compete in five Olympics—would be enough to earn respect, even reverence, in most sports, but Cook still gets asked bikini questions. Does that not bother her?

"I'm OK with it. It's the only sport where the women dominate. If it starts with the bikini, fine," she told Reuters. "I believe it shows the best side of the female body and I'm proud of how we look in it."

Beach volleyball is a great spectacle. It doesn't take itself too seriously. Pop music blares from loudspeakers in between points and during the players' breaks spectators are entertained by dancers in beachwear.
Britain's women's beach volleyball player Zara Dampney trains at the London 2012 Olympics beach volleyball venue in central London.

Britain's women's beach volleyball player Zara Dampney trains at the London 2012 Olympics beach volleyball venue in central London.

The top women players do not seek to deny that the lure of their sweating bodies in bikinis draws in audiences, generates media interest and boosts advertising revenue. Their response is: so what?

"This is how we look. This is how we are. What you see is what you get. There's no hiding. There's no airbrushing here," said American Misty May-Treanor, who won Olympic gold in Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008.

Most of the top players come from places such as Brazil, California or Australia, where there's a strong beach culture and wearing bikinis is normal. It's the practical choice for a sport played barefoot in the sand and the heat, they say.

May-Treanor sees no incompatibility between the sport's sexy image and the tough physical work it involves. "There's a lot of hard work that goes into what we do. I do a lot of power lifting and weight lifting," she said.

She's not one to shy away from macho banter either. "If someone says something I'm like, ah, whatever, they don't really realise what goes into it. If they want to arm wrestle, I'll get clothed and we can go lift weights in the weight room," she said.

Brazilian world champion Juliana Felisberta, a favourite for gold in London, seems to embrace sexually charged humour with as much gusto as she approaches high-level competition.

During a pre-Games news conference, Felisberta spoke passionately about her dream of a showdown against May-Treanor in the Olympic final, while cracking jokes about which players had the best bodies. "It's a really interesting sport and the players have beautiful bodies," Felisberta said.
Britain's Zara Dampney takes part in a practice session at the Olympic beach volleyball main court at the Horse Guards Parade in London.

Britain's Zara Dampney takes part in a practice session at the Olympic beach volleyball main court at the Horse Guards Parade in London.

But many women outside the sport are incensed by how the sporting prowess is trivialised by constant sexual innuendo. At a protest in London against gender discrimination in sport, delegates said it turned women into sex objects.

"They are using women's bodies as sex. It is all about money. It makes women look like objects and it is a clear case of sexism," said Annie Sugier, spokeswoman for the International League for Women's Rights.

But as far as the women athletes are concerned, sexism is in the eye of the beholder. They say that people may come for the bikinis but they will stay for the sport. "Once they see the athleticism of our sport they're hooked on it," said April Ross, a US rival to May-Treanor.

The sport's governing body, the FIVB, opened itself up to criticism for years by making bathing suits compulsory for women players during tournaments, except in cold weather. The rules changed in March and women are now allowed to wear shorts with tops or a full body suit. The FIVB said this was to respect different customs and religious beliefs.

"We want women of all different religions and everyone from across the world to be able to play our sport, and to not be able to play because of the attire is not OK for us," said Jennifer Kessy, Ross's teammate. "We wouldn't be playing in shorts because for us it's not comfortable but for others we think it's great."

Ross and Kessy once played at a tournament in Dubai, where they wore bikinis during matches but long modest dresses on the medal podium. They said it was a strange experience, but they felt positive about bringing a taste of Californian beach culture to the conservative Gulf.

Australia's Cook said she was perplexed by the focus on the bikinis given the outfits on display in other sports. "The track and field stars run in a bikini. It's a little bit bigger, but it's a bikini," she told Reuters.

May-Treanor also saw inconsistencies in attitudes to sports. "It's funny because people look at our sport in that manner when you have gymnasts that are 14, 15, the camera angles sometimes on these events, and they're in leotards. And you have divers in Speedos," she said.

But whatever the reason for the fuss over bikinis, May-Treanor could see the bright side. "All the work we're putting in must be paying off because if they're so (interested in) what we're wearing it's like, yeah, we must have awesome bodies," she said, bursting out laughing.

Source: Reuters

Published: 30 July 2012

caca_eric

tp sama jer.. diorg still pakai bikini ni..
yg lelaki elok jer sopan..
ingatkan kat pantai betul.. rupanye dalam stadium jer

caca_eric

caca_eric posted on 2-8-2012 11:53 PM
tp sama jer.. diorg still pakai bikini ni..
yg lelaki elok jer sopan..
ingatkan kat pantai betul.. ...

yg germany ni still bikini..
tp usa & cze elok pakai legging..

boyak

tak masuk pasir ke kat celah2 tu

PEPPERMAN

tp bola tampar dlm dewan pun mcm bikini gak, esp sluarnya.
patutnya perubahan tu buat tuk dalam dewan dulu, hak yg pantai nampak releven berbikini like

syadail

they do a lot of weightlifting- patutlah nmpak hmpir smua pemain beach volleyball almost flat chested. Klu byk weightlifting mmg kt breast fat nya kena burnt tukar jd muscle. Cuba peratikan. Depa tk seksi kt atas tp seksi kt bawah je.

hakass009

picca plssssssssss........