The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Olympic Games: The True Story of the Ancient Games

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In Homer's Iliad, there are mentions of male athletes competing in the Homeric Olympics wearing a loincloth, while dating back to 720 BCE, the Ancient Olympics actually featured players who were ready to go bare.

Some jurisdictions which maintain laws against public nudity may turn a blind eye to incidents of skinny dipping depending on the circumstances, as police officers on the spot decline to make arrests. Panhelleniccompetitions in Archaic Greece often displayed the beauty of the nude male Greek body, but so did other civic institutions, such as the gymnasium. Also supposed to encourage the ideas of power, confidence and dominance - male athletes really had a gala time being in the buff. The stark-naked games on the dedicated naturist Abrico beach in Grumari, in the west zone of Rio, are a far cry from the rigorous and heavily contested Olympics.Four years before the 2012 Summer Olympics water polo swimsuit snafu, there was another uniform mishap in the women's sport.

For Daley, that wouldn't be the last time the Olympic gold medalist accidentally revealed more than planned though, since he did rip his pants while attending the Met Gala. In 2010, FINA, the international governing body of swimming, determined that the LZR Racer and similar suits conferred too unfair an advantage for the wearers.Ancient Persians traditionally thought it against decorum toappear in the buff, and thus Greek nudity was an affront to their social mores. Clothing optional beaches in the United States vary in the degree to which they are separated from the non-nude public, and whether nudity is officially permitted by local authorities or merely tolerated although illegal. Tom Daley wasn't the only Olympic athlete to accidentally show off their bum to the camera, considering it also happened to bobsled racer Gillian Cooke.

During a telecast match at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Greek national water polo team star Christina Tsoukala encountered a serious wardrobe malfunction when her swimsuit failed her. She celebrated with a victory lap, and when she was done, Graf unzipped her suit from the neck to her belly button. Jordan's first ever Olympic medallist Ahmad Abughaush has been congratulated by the country's Queen Rania al-Abdullah, on Twitter. This is to say that when the team accepted its medals and held Old Glory aloft, the only thing people were looking at was Rummel's shorts (second from left.The 38-year-old, who has never won an Olympic medal, led the race by a minute at one point but eventually finished eighth - having suffered from some rather nasty "gastric problems" en route that eventually caused him to collapse, before resuming.