This article doesn't go into the rest of it, but this was enough.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008...h.olympics2008
And then there are pictures here:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i...ckFngD92EQ1S02
The pictures don't tell the story that the actual video did.
Karen
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08-12-2008, 05:23 AM #1
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08-12-2008, 05:28 AM #2
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Wearing bikinis makes sense because it's beach volleyball, and is played at the beach (which is where it should remain).
The thing that doesn't make sense is why in the world is this is an Olympic sport in the first place?
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08-12-2008, 05:48 AM #3
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you said what i was trying to be nice enough not to say... but the truth is, there are a lot of sports in the olympics that many people don't feel are olympic worthy. How are you going to define what makes a sport able to be in the olympics? I think the IOC does it by having a certain number of national sports federations, right? I don't really know.
And to some extent, what I enjoy about the olympics is getting to watch sports that are not as main stream, that I don't get a chance to watch too often.
On the other hand, they have olympic trampoline.
Fo shizzle.
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08-12-2008, 07:19 AM #4
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I do think it was included for TV ratings (although it is played on at least so many continents and things like that), but it definitely is a sport, and a hard one. These women are very fit. It's quite tough to jump like that on sand, and it's a fast paced game that can be pretty exciting to watch...
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