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Do Female Figure Skaters’ Boobs Get Sore? [Olympic Mysteries]

Olympic women spun, leaped, and flying cameled their way to the figure skating podium last night, but with all those plunging backs and necklines (not to mention visible nipples) all I could think was, Where does the bra go? Not to be a total perv, but look at these costumes. Illusion netting may cover a multitude of sins, but I’m pretty sure these ladies are not wearing bras. If there’s some sort of slipped-down-the-front floating-cup situation going on, rest assured it is not of the heavy duty sports bra variety that even a casual jogger would be a fool to go without. After all that jumping and contorting at high speeds, shouldn’t their boobs be sore? Point : Braless running down stairs is enough to make a mortal woman cringe. This is clearly more rigorous. Counterpoint : They regularly crash into hard surfaces at 30mph. They can probably handle a little pain. Point : Did you see Mao Asada ‘s triple axel? Counterpoint : They’re only on the ice for four minutes at a time. Point : With all those cut-outs, there isn’t even room for built-in reinforcement. Counterpoint : Those bodies aren’t exactly the type that gets floppy. Counterpoint : Centripetal force is on their side during spins. Point : Oh no. Why is Miki Ando ‘s top pointing at her nipples like that? Counterpoint : It’s the Olympics, so suck it up. Besides, did you see Cynthia Phaneuf ‘s earrings? She’s probably too busy worrying about tearing an earlobe to give her breasts a second thought.

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Do Female Figure Skaters’ Boobs Get Sore? [Olympic Mysteries]

How the American Lady Skaters Could Kill the Olympics

# olympicmysteries During last night’s short program, Tom Hammond noted that an American woman has made the figure skating podium every Olympics since Peggy Fleming. This year, that streak might be broken. That sort of ruins the Olympics, doesn’t it? More

Is the Most Interesting Event at the Olympics Already Over?

Oh last night was a corker. The girls snowboarded and Julia Mancuso continued her silver rush, but mostly men twirled around on ice and we all clapped and swooned. Now that it’s over, we’re worried. Was it the best event? Because male figure skating is inherently the most ridiculous sport at the games — ohhh gender norms blahblah be damned, it’s true — it always has the potential to be resoundingly silly, and thus fun. But most years we don’t have huge American competitors and it’s all just a bunch of weirdo Russkies and our eyes do not stay glued for long. But this year! We had Lysacek and his glorious counterpart Johnny Weir , who probably wasn’t going to medal but darned if he didn’t make a good case for one last night, and plus all these surprisingly attractive competitors from elsewhere. It was a big, deep field with American favorites and storied rivalries. Put that together with Black Swan costumes and Cypress Hill songs and you’ve got an Olympic event for the ages. And now it’s done. 🙁 This is the first Olympics in a long while where the announcers haven’t spent a lopsided amount of time plugging the women’s skate during the men’s, and that’s mostly because there aren’t any American front runners among the ladies, and no big personalities from anywhere else, really. So for the drama this Olympic go-around, the men had it. Had, past tense. And we still have a whole week of competition left! What’re we going to do? Well, we’re going to gawp, horrified, at incestuous ice dancers . Yes, brother/sister ice dancing teams. That really puts the deaky in freaky. If only ice dancing wasn’t so stultifyingly boring. And sure there’s still some Alpine skiing left and Apolo Ohno has more dizzy circles to make, but this year the graceful guys of the lady-owned ice seemed to sparkle the brightest, and with the grand story sung to a close last night — the Dark Lord of America won, causing both joy and disappointment — the Olympic flame has flickered and waned, just a bit.

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Is the Most Interesting Event at the Olympics Already Over?