Olympics update

[trinityvixen]

Having just watched the 200M free, I finally get the hype about Michael Phelps. Because I just watched him swim like a friggin' marlin. He flew. The speed...it boggles.

Alas, the fast suit covers up his nipples. Stupid innovations in sports! You're taking away my vicarious joy of watching one of my favorite body types parading nearly naked!

Then there was the 100M backstroke. The gold and silver both went to Americans. The gold medal winner jokingly backhanded the silver medalist's abs. Simultaneously, feiran and I exclaimed, "I WANT TO DO THAT." Yes, his abs were that amazing.

feiran: YAY HETEROSEXUALITY!!!!


ETA: Phelps stands to collect his gold in his warm ups.
me: TAKE IT OFF!!!
feiran: You totally heckled the Olympics!!!

Comments

[xannoside.livejournal.com]

Alas, the fast suit covers up his nipples. Stupid innovations in sports! You're taking away my vicarious joy of watching one of my favorite body types parading nearly naked!

I would have thought that you would be not-so-secretly amused by the fact that the Men's and Women's olympic swimsuits are now the same thing... :P

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Actually, they're all over the place. Michael Phelps changed suits between his freestyle win and the butterfly quals. In the freestyle, he had on the tank-topped full-body suit, and in the butterfly, only the pants. There's obviously enough of a difference in control and flexibility that he went with one or another, so I was was able to see the nipple action.

And it's amazing how similar all the swimmers look now. It's literally impossible to tell at first blush who the men and women are and where they're from. By the time you get the swim caps covering the hair, the fast suits morphing all the bodies sexual characteristics, and the goggles completely obscuring the eyes, you would be hard-pressed to tell the Americans from the Japanese. (The fact that there are no 'Americans' doesn't help either. Look at the three guys who rounded out Team USA for the male gymnasts--of Chinese, Indian, and Russian descent or birth!)

[xannoside.livejournal.com]

Well, supposedly those suits only last 5-10 uses before they're not electro-statically smooth anymore, so it makes sense that Phelps changes suits dependent on which event he's going to be swimming.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

If that were the case, why not put on another full-body? No, I think, even if it's only in the crazy swimmers' heads, there's enough of a restriction to your arms with the suit that having only bottoms for a butterfly stroke is necessary. No one had tops on. With the freestyle, some had tops with shorts, some tops with longer pants, some no tops, but the butterfly was all topless.

::glee::

[xannoside.livejournal.com]

I think the "it's in your head" aspect is a given regardless.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I forget what we were watching, but darkling1 made some comment or another about how silly some practice was. I assured him that there was a good reason for it, even if the only reason was "because that person thinks it makes him/her better at what he/she does."

I am reminded of the rant from the owner of the Miami Dolphins in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, "I have a [fill in player here] who has not washed his jockey strap in two years because he thinks flies are lucky." It's like that. Only, it's the Olympics.

[xannoside.livejournal.com]

Well, there you go. At least we can be relatively sure that the swimsuits are new each time.