Questions: Sports

The last few Olympics have seen controversies over women in beach volleyball and beach handball having to wear revealing bikinis, because promotors think it increases audiences (though they have since been allowed to wear more). But men have always been able to wear shorts and tank tops.

Do you agree men should have to take their shirts off for Olympic beach sports? This is how they dress for competitions outside the Olympics anyway, and it would be more entertaining for female audiences, so same logic.

FINA banned high tech swimwear from competitive swimming in 2009, and said that swimwear couldn't cover the arms or lower legs, and that men had to swim topless in just shorts.

Personally, I agree with all these rules. This was because swimsuits were increasingly covering the whole body and made of performance enhancing synthetic materials, so the competition was becoming less about the swimming.

On the other hand, maybe the suits were just helping the athletes perform at their best, and it added an interesting element to the game. What do you think?

(The rules for reference: "For pool swimming competitions swimsuits for men shall not extend above the navel nor below the knee, and for women, shall not cover the neck, nor extend past the shoulder, nor below the knee. All swimsuits shall be made from textile materials.")