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When Olympian Tess Howard put on her new uniform for Great Britain’s women’s field hockey team in 2021, she felt something she hadn’t expected at the height of her athletic career: embarrassment.

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[–] sga@piefed.social 12 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

sorry for being late, been away a lot lately. also the website just did not liek my setup (js/cache disabled, plus some more), had to start inprivate window.

getting to main topic - it is not a uplifting news from the title - but from the part - she became the first to sccore in shorts, which to my non sports term understanding ass sounds like skorts (or whatever those skin hugging clothing for respective sport is called) bad and shorts good, is uplifting. So definitely leave it up.

I watch cricket a lot (a bat and ball sport) - and you basically wear what you want - full/half sleaves, sweater or jacket or cap or hat - if it does not hinder your performance it does not matter.

I can see some sports where gear matters - swimming and running sports come to mind where viscous drag from water or air come in effect, and how your gear shapes and how vortex shedding happens and general graglines matter, so like running shoes, it becomes a requirement for performance, but beyond these sports, any clothing should work.

I do know that alot of women sports get viewing purely because a lot men get to see "hot women", and that is definitely bad.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The successful fight is why I posted it here. Sorry to be so controversial with it.

[–] sga@piefed.social 4 points 12 hours ago

no problem buddy, post freely. this is not controversial at all compared to what it used to be half or so year ago, it is like a fraction.

thanks for the post, i did hear something in these lines a year ago but did not know any details.

[–] uid0gid0@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

This happens in swimming too. The racing suits that the girls wear (called tech suits) need to be very form-fitting to get the best streamlining in the water. What they don't need, however, is translucent body panels that make the girls look like they are wearing bikinis underneath. It's gotten better in the past couple of seasons where they are offering different patterns and colors of suits. But the problem remains with the basic black suits.