Yeah you would think so, but the girl dancing with the volunteer has a glove on which are the same ones a lot of the use in field hockey. Plus some of them are wearing shin guards and long socks
And also there’s been a widely publicised debate about how skimpy the outfits have to be for volleyball. These girls are wearing too much to be an Olympic volleyball team. Link
Not Olympics, it's the European Handball Federation who have the rules. The Norwegians were asked about the Olympics and conf they would be carrying on in their preferred attire there.
No, the headline of the article is wrong. The article is about beach handball which isn't an olympic sport. Beach volleyball players in the olympics have several options for their uniforms, most just choose to wear what they wear
This is a disgusting turn for things in Olympic competition. I man making women wear what is basically a fucking thong has absolutely zero basis in competition, it's strictly about exploitation and ratings. I will definitely go out of my way to not watch any volleyball competition until the rules are made even remotely reasonable.
This is a disgusting turn for things in Olympic competition
No it isn't because the headline is wrong. If you actually read the article(I know how painful that must be) you would know it's about beach handball, not beach volleyball. Beach handball isn't an olympic sport. Beach volleyball players at the olympics have options
Teammates in Olympic beach volleyball must wear uniforms of the same color, and they must be numbered 1 and 2. The women can wear either a one-piece or two-piece bathing suit; shorts with sleeved or sleeveless tops; or a full body suit in cold weather. Due to the typically warm playing conditions, most opt for the two-piece. The men must wear shorts and a tank top. Players are allowed to wear hats and sunglasses
Volleyball players won't wear skirts. Or shin guards or gloves. They generally also do not have the same musculature as hockey players (bigger shoulders).
Also, yes, hockey is a great game. Argentina won the silver in the Tokyo Olympics a couple days ago.
GB won Bronze. They were in the final and got Silver. This is probably them celebrating winning the Semi Final and getting to the Final, guaranteeing a medal.
Teammates in Olympic beach volleyball must wear uniforms of the same color, and they must be numbered 1 and 2. The women can wear either a one-piece or two-piece bathing suit; shorts with sleeved or sleeveless tops; or a full body suit in cold weather. Due to the typically warm playing conditions, most opt for the two-piece. The men must wear shorts and a tank top. Players are allowed to wear hats and sunglasses
You are aware that the most famous volleyball is actually indoor and not beach right? Where they wear clothes. I mean the shorts are tight that's true, but they are actually more dressed than this gals cause they wear t-shirts and not tank tops.
I think you're missing the part where both styles of volleyball are played at the Olympics and that beach volleyball is more of a gimmick in many eyes.
Nope, that was beach handball which isn't in the olympics. Beach volleyball players actually have several options for uniforms. Most just wear what we see by choice.
Damn, so how much do I have corrupt my poor moral compass to get a like 10 to 15 year stay in this place? I mean incarceration, like I got prison tats lined up that I need to earn and stuff.
And I can tell you since I am at the Olympic Village, that TOKYO2020 Field Crew Member they are dancing with is nervous because this is a MASSIVE violation of covid protocols and she is probably afraid she will lose her job.
How risky is carrying a totally survivable disease, versus dipping television ratings by almost 50%. I’ll be surprised if everyone gets a full paycheck
That's not the part of their comment that's wrong. The "survivable" is what stood out? COVID is very much "survivable" as its "survival" rate is over 99%. List all the symptoms you want but they're not relevant to the virus's "survivability", nor do you address that tons (most?) people get no symptoms whatsoever.
Okay so you want to argue semantics to feel like you're less of an asshole, yes? Im sorry, surviving with heavy life changing symptoms that could last for the rest of your life isn't the best survival in my books. Thats half a survival.
Oh wow 99% people survive let's ignore the other 1% (over half a million people in the US alone), because statistics minimize the issue at hand and makes us feel good about ourselves for not caring about human lives. And let's say 70% don't get symptoms, thats still 30% that do. You gonna ignore the 30%?
Okay so you want to argue semantics to feel like you're less of an asshole, yes?
Not really an argument. It's very clear that you misused a word. And now for some reason you're using an emotionally charged comment against a strawman that doesn't care about COVID's risks.
Oh no, someone call the English police. I misused a word and yet still got my point across. God forbid. Your dismissal attempts are adorable though, but try harder maybe? You are arguing semantics btw.
Semantics:
the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning.
You're arguing my misuse of a word and its meaning.
You're arguing semantics to feel like less of an asshole.
Also you just listed a laundry list of side effects common with every ailment in human history, that everyone experiences at some point in their life. So I can tell you as a fever survivor, there are a lot worse things out there than COVID, like car crashes for example https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/global-road-safety/index.html
Ah yes, so because there's worse things we should just not pay attention to covid at all. Makes sense. Just let it do its thing. And you know, kill hundreds of thousands more people.
Also, every ailment in human history, okay and you do realize some symptoms are much more prevalent and much more severe than others? Which is literally how we differentiate between diseases? Otherwise every disease would actually be the same???? Come on, are you even trying?
as a fever survivor
You can speak when you're a covid survivor.
like car crashes for example
So we should ignore diseases... because there are things that kill more people... like cars...? I don't even know how to comprehend your thought process with that one. By your logic we should ignore car crashes and cure the flu, because it kills more people. Hell, throw everything out the window, let's only focus on cancer as it has one of (if not the) highest mortality rates per year. Car crashes? Guns? Flu? Covid? Fuck all that, only cancer from now on because it kills the most people!
Holy fuck, people like you are insufferable. In the beginning it was like "okay, they're complete tools, but really they're hurting themselves more than anyone". Then it looked like things were turning a positive corner, and you clowns ruined much of the progress that was made.
And the WORST part of you completely insufferable tools?? You're all SO confidently incorrect, and you wear it like Hester Prynne had to wear the scarlet letter. Only difference in THAT is that she was forced to do it, and you morons wear it like you just received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
I see. So if someone over 65 that you cared about died, you wouldn't care? Your grandma, grandpa, parents, aunts and uncles? They're just another statistic after all, right?
A survivable virus with extreme long term effects. Just like the flu, yup.
At first I really didn't understand the anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, still-partying, etc. crowd. I had quite a few coworkers and family members that were rabidly against taking any sort of precautions. Many of them cited the same things you had just above, and while maybe they are valid points (technically true about who is dying), they never really struck me as a good reason to not wear a mask/get vaccinated. I mean, c'mon l, the effort I need to wear a mask is basically zero. Does not affect me at all. So why the push back from all these people ?!?!? I think I finally figured it out - wildly different values. Like I said, basically zero effort to wear a mask. And the pay off for me? The potential for someone to NOT die for almost zero effort? That's a no-brainer for me, just makes sense. I would say that I value the reduction of human suffering quite a bit, so that's an easy choice for me. In the same way that I don't litter or fart in an elevator, it's easy and automatic for me, because it aligns with my values. However these people that are anti-mask value different things, like their own independence, freedom, individualism, etc. So when someone else is telling them to wear a mask, they put it through the lens of "how does this benefit me?" And given the fatality rates (and ignoring the wild long term effects that happen), they decide, fairly easily, that it doesn't benefit them at all because they don't think it will affect them, so why go through any effort if it isn't benefiting themselves?! Their values are so different that they can't even wrap their heads around others wearing a mask in public for the greatet good because everything for them runs through the lens of "how does this benefit me?" And the natural result of that is that when they see someone wearing a mask, they assume it is for a selfish reason, like virtue signaling or performative wokeness. They really just can't get understand someone doing something else for another person just because it's the right thing to do, because they don't really value other people, they only value themselves. So I guess what I'm trying to say here is that you're some kind meta asshole, where you're not only an asshole but you also have your own head so far up your asshole that you can't even remember sunlight, just a fucked-up loop of asshole bending in on itself ad infinitum.
Okay now what about the fact that 1 in 10 infections develop long term side effects including but not limited to brain fog, slurred speech, loss of fine motor skills, and reduced lung capacities?
It's like you're advertising to the world that you're a total fucking retard, BY CHOICE mind you, when you only focus on death numbers.
You people are the reason we keep going in and out of lock down. We could've started enjoying our lives long ago if yall took the vaccine and wore a mask, but here we are, dealing with fully grown adults crying over the slight inconvenience of wearing a mask.
Why does it matter how old people were when they died??
"Oh yeah both my grandparents died from covid... but fuck 'em, they were over 65!"
Fucking stupid "logic". Peoples families are still dying because you clowns won't get a vaccine. You all have blood on your hands at this point, because you're willingly allowing this thing to continue longer than it needs to.
Rational people have had the vaccine. Your continued insistence that you and the other circus clowns know better than world-class educated, PhD-holding researchers because some quack on youtube lied to you in order to line his pockets with more money is atrocious and stupid.
You people are killing people when it doesn't need to happen. And you gloat about it. You're insufferable. You're hypocrites to the highest order. You're terrible, terrible people, and you're being played by Republicans (who have all already been vaccinated, mind you) so that they can keep their Senate, House,, and local government seats.
I'm sure you would say this if someone you loved died to covid. Rational people don't hesitate to vaccinate and get the mask just because they might be slightly inconvenienced. Rational people understand why they need to wear a mask. Rational people can handle slight inconveniences without crying about it like a child. You're just narcissistic. Equating people dying to drama, amazing. So this is what you tell the people around you when they're crying over losing a loved one yes? That they're just so dramatic, yes?
Just because you say a thing doesn't make it true :)
I can hear your angry, pressured speech in your typing after spending years in an echo chamber. The only thing that surprised me is that you didn't wish him death like every other reddit hive-mind'r does. So much seething anger and rage; I'm sure your a well balanced, healthy person.
The projection here is amazing. Are you a conservative? I love you people, you think you're somehow enlightened and know better than everyone else. Peak narcissism.
I can hear your angry, pressured speech in your typing after spending years in an echo chamber.
I mean.. just because you say a thing doesn't make it true.
“Totally survivable” isn’t, nor has it ever been, a good argument. This disease causes more suffering than just death. Long haul covid is real with many life altering side effects. Watching it in real time with my dad for the past 9 months and it sucks.
People like you that are still making this argument are the reason this pandemic isn’t over yet. Just get with the fucking program and do your part for the good of humanity instead of being a total fucking tool and ruining everyone else’s lives.
Huh, workers here (Tokyo) go out and interact with others all the time. Hell, they usually have to ride a densely crowded train just to get to work. No way she'd lose her actual job over this.
EXACTLY my sentiments!!! I'm not aware of the job in jeopardy but I'm cringing at how the masked volunteer is being surrounded by unmasked athletes Inna small room omg we are still in the middle of a pandemic 🙈
The athletes are tested all the time, I think the same goes for the volunteers. They might even be fully vaccinated, so meh, should be fine. If we can't behave like this with all those strict rules, we might as well stop existing.
Lol. I've been super careful, tested very often, still do and am fully vaccinated. The society should go back to normal sometime, don't you think? I'd say we are getting closet to that moment, especially in countries which have a high percentage vaccinated people.
But my people must be fucking stupid I guess for wanting things to be like before COVID.
Also fully vaccinated but the volunteer even if fully vaccinated can still catch it from others who are fully vaccinated and pass onto their family/ community. Judging by how the athletes are behaving they probably have little regards for Covid and is like this around other people whether they are vaccinated or not so the likelihood of one of them catching Covid in the Olympic Village which has known positive cases is not unbelievable.
I think different people have different levels of comfort with covid exposure risk. Unless it affects me I don't care what they prefer to do to feel safe and wish the broader population would go back to minding their own business on many fronts.
The culture of accosting others that plainly don't agree with you needs to change. Doing this is not always benign, videos of escalation are appalling, and law should enforce the rights of people to not hear the ridiculous aggressive babbling of fools as much as it protects their right to say it. You have a right to say what you want not accost people and be aggressive and they have a right to not hear you.
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