But What about the Rest?

I read with some amusement, the tale of the South African athlete who is being made to take a gender test, because she looks like a geezer. Admittedly she is a bit on the butch side, but I reckon a few of the squad have tackled mingers less feminine than the gold medal winning athlete in question. But after watching a bit of the Championships, I began to wonder, is it that she looked so butch, or is it she didn't look as fit as the rest? When I was growing up, the former Communist countries of Eastern Europe used to throw up growlers of an epic scale. Telling a bird she looked like a Russian shot putter, was about the gravest insult that could be bestowed. Just checkout the photo of the Czech athlete Kratochvílová to the left. You wouldn't mess, would you? It was the gymnasts that used to put a sparkle in a young fellas eye.

But then the Chinese got involve, and all of a sudden gymnastics became really creepy. Girls with the head of an eighteen year old stuck on an eleven year olds body? Disturbing stuff indeed. But with the fall of the Berlin wall, and tougher doping tests something weird happened. All the runners started looking like women again. And is if to prove it, particularly at the just finished World Championships in Berlin, they have decided to wear next to no clothes. Even the girls in Hooters wear shorts less hot then those sported on the track. Cheered me up no end, and sure as Hell beat the shit out of watching the "One Show." I fear this may be the beginning of my "Dirty Old Man" phase....