The American Athletics Federation (USATF) recalled on Sunday that American athletes will have multiple choices of outfits at the Paris Olympic Games. Women's stockings with particularly tight fabric at the crotch level have sparked controversy in recent days, being considered sexist or impractical by several athletes or ex-athletes.
“Professional athletes should be able to compete without constantly thinking about their pubic hair removal or the exposure of their private parts,” Lauren Fleshman, former American 5,000m champion, wrote on her social networks. The reigning American Olympic pole vault champion Katie Moon, a fan of this type of bottom, said she was “taken aback” by the jersey presented in Paris on Thursday. The USATF can say that Nike consulted the opinions of athletes during the process of creating the outfits to ensure that they were comfortable and suitable for the events, adds the USAT foment. The American outfits revealed Thursday are only two choices among the multiple options offered to athletes.