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Ever brighter, ever tighter hot pants for the sprints, ringed socks for the long jump, 'whole-body condoms' for swimming. You'd dunk the Olympics were a fashion, not sports, show Just about everyone wears as little as possible. The flapping shorts and sloppy tops look is for ball sports only, apart from the volleybailers.
Ah, the volleyballers - especially those on the beach The girls' bikinis just get tinier and tinier, while if they had their way the boys would play their version of the sport barechested.
"Trouble is. there'd be nothing left to throw into the crowd but your shorts," says German beach volleyball player David Klemperer.
The tightest-of-tight-fitting high-tech swimsuits might look like the athletes are poured into them, but in fact they take 15 to 20 minutes to struggle into before each race.
That might explain why some of the men prefer the topless kneelengthversion.
"When I started. I used to wear a costume for 100 old German marks. Now these high-tech racing suits cost 500 euros." says former German swimming star Franziska vonAlmsick
The sleek one-piece suits might be good for setting world records, but they are not too flattering. "You look like a flatfish, or a skeleton,' says sprint double gold medallist Britta Steffen.
The ones who really go over the top are the synchronised swimming competitors with their wildly patterned, sequined swimsuits and their waterproof make-up.
Chinese model Mo Wanden has just been showing the most expensive swimsuit in Beijing - a little black number with a honeycomb pattern recalling the architecture of the Water Cube and featuring hundreds of crystals by the legendary Aus tn an Swarovski company
Designer Huang Yinyan hopes the 117.647-euro garment will enter the Guinness Book of Records. It's due to feature in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne once the Games are over.
Then there is all the fastidious
attention to detail that many ath letes indulge ip US heptathlon contender Jackie Johnson's sky-blue detachable sleeves, or Samoa's Shanahan Sanitoa clocking the worst time in the 100m heats in a pink dance costume.
There are more birds of paradise flapping away in the athletics sandpit Panama s Irving Saladina leapt to gold in one blue and one red lacquered shoe.
South Africa's Khoto Mokoena took silver in bright red knee-length socks, while those of Senegal's Ndiss Kaba Badjiaus featured brightly-coloured rings.
It has even reached as far as the conservative hockey women. They might still be sticking to their classic skirts, but at least the tops have moved on. They are now tight fitting, with narrow shoulder straps