Given the expected ratings triumph that is Beach Volleyball, can it be long ere the world sees pole-dancing as the Olympic games latest demonstration sport?
I heard that the Olympic Committee actually mandated that they had to all have bikini uniforms, because it would bring more viewers. I think it was Paul Harvey said it.
He speaks sooth. They have indeed.
In fact, the Chinese organizing comittee even went to the extent of training a corps of Beijing lasses to do major-league style cheerleading, in the process also acclimatizing them to also wear bikinis, which is less than most chinese are accustomed to wearing in public.
Funny you should mention pole dancing… I saw something in the NYT online recently, about how some enterprising Chinese woman has been promoting pole dancing into the newest exercise fad in China. That’s a little hard to picture. But apparently pole dancing is pretty much alien to the Chinese, so they have no connotations (cough strip clubs cough) with pole dancing, if the NYT article is accurate.
Tsk! That’s a dermatologist visit just waiting to happen! Might look titillating now, but in ten years they’ll all have alligator skin and a standing appointment with the cryospray.
Not a good message to send, if you ask me.
Yes, but they won’t be playing then and another huge group of well proportioned young sports players will take their place.
Ratings are about the now, not the consequences.
Mukade
I think Pole dancing would be a great idea:
They really should include other ethnic dances too though…
No, 'tis true.
One hopes that they are all sprayed thoroughly with spf 70 before taking the field/sand, and that they spend their bench time (and the remaining percentage of their days) exercising more care.
I am rooting for the broad-brimmed hat to become fashionable again.
I’m doing my part, by wearing a somewhat dorky looking wide brimmed hat as I mow the lawn. I figure that I’m setting an example, showing people that it’s okay to wear dorky looking wide brimmed hats.
The odd thing about the picture above, of the v-ball players, is how pale they are, relatively. You would think they’d already be quite tan from having played that sport on a regular basis.
They clearly don’t understand the concept of pasties.
I believe the politically correct term for “dorky looking” clothing is “sensible” clothing.
Maybe the sunblock is working.
I am rooting for the broad-brimmed hat to become fashionable again.
I’ve got a straw one that I call my fishing hat that’s really wide.
Last weekend I bought one just like these-
and now I find this
I love hats. 
Dermatologist approved and whistle-friendly:
You both need to move to Florida. Absolutely NO problem with broad-brimmed hats here! Long sleeves, long pants, SPF fabric . . . you name it, we wear it.
Too bad none of these things work retroactively, says he who has lounged on and around the beach and ocean for over 60 years. My wife says I wouldn’t be bad looking if I still had more of that ear and other body parts they have recently been cutting from my beautiful bronzed body.
She’s getting tired of driving me to these appointments although at least the Mohs process gives her a lot of time to go shopping while they work their magic on me. She can hardly wait until September 4 when we (I use that term advisedly) get to do it again. 
Sandy
While I sympathize, my nose is now half it’s original size, makes it easier to use my binocs. No fuzzy shadows off to the side.