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Pop singer P!nk offered to cover the roughly $2,200 in fines in a social media post, despite the national federation already prepared to pay and in support of the stance.
On Sunday, the German women’s gymnastic team made a unified stand by wearing full-length unitards similar to the men who wear singlets with baggy pants instead of the much more revealing high-cut numbers that gymnasts traditionally wear. Kim Bui, Pauline Schaefe and Elisabeth Seitz of Germany in their unitards during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Gymnastics Women’s Vault Qualification on Sunday. Photo by Mike Blake /REUTERS
I get it, sex sells, and the Olympics are big business so big, in fact, that the IOC has pushed forward with the global event in the middle of a pandemic in a country that is being hit hard by a fourth wave in empty stadiums because of the billions of dollars in ad revenue at stake.