{"id":1088,"date":"2004-08-17T17:22:44","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T21:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/olympic_controversy\/"},"modified":"2004-08-17T17:22:44","modified_gmt":"2004-08-17T21:22:44","slug":"olympic_controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/olympic_controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re not talking drugs, money, or those other petty issues. Here’s<\/a> the type of controversy that really gets at the integrity of sport (sorry, no pictures):<\/p>\n

A team of bikini-clad dancers from the Canary Islands is entertaining fans but offending some female players at Olympic beach volleyball.
\nWearing bright orange outfits during the day and shiny silver ones at night, the sun-bronzed babes race onto the sand between points and matches, gyrating to blaring techno-pop. Fans join in, wiggling hips and clicking cameras.
\nAt least one women’s team isn’t amused.
\n“It’s kind of disrespectful to the female players,” said Nicole Sanderson, an Australian. “I’m sure the male spectators love it, but I find it a little bit offensive.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m don’t know what Ms. Sanderson finds offensive. Couldn’t be the dancer’s appearance, because their dress is fairly similar to that of the players.
\nBut as much as I’m sure that many fans appreciate the added entertainment, I’m not sure the Olympics will retain their character if we start adding dance teams, half time shows, corporate promotions, and the other trappings of contemporary professional sporting events. I’d rather the games maintain their traditional focus on competition and leave out the hoopla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re not talking drugs, money, or those other petty issues. Here’s the type of controversy that really gets at the integrity of sport (sorry, no pictures): A team of bikini-clad dancers from the Canary Islands is entertaining fans but offending some female players at Olympic beach volleyball. Wearing bright orange outfits during the day and […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}