NBC is showing Womens' Beach Volleyball...non-stop

[Warren DeMontague]

178. I hear there are "complaints" from the athletes about their own outfits.

which, of course, would be relevant to discussions about volleyball players choosing to wear the bikinis. If the compaints actually, you know, exist.

If there are, funny that no one has posted a link to them. Perhaps another one of those cases where someone with a few too many ounces of omniscince knows what is in someone else's head better than they themselves do.

I looked for complaints, all I found was this:

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/China/story?id=5589206&page=1

"It's a very tough sport," Rossini said via e-mail. "Only the best athletes in the world can perform at this level, playing more than one hour, running and jumping on a complicated surface like the sand, under strong wind, heavy rain or the hottest conditions. If they didn't like their uniforms, the FIVB would have received tons of complaints for them, which is not the case."

Sand Where the Sun Don't Shine

Holly McPeak, a three-time Olympics beach volleyball player and winner of the bronze medal at the 2004 Athens games, said she'd pick the bikini over the one-piece every time.

"It's not even close," she said. "There's so many reasons for it."

Olympic Beach Volleyball: Women Prefer Bikinis

Not only are they more comfortable, the bikinis allow for a greater range of motion. One-pieces also have the unfortunate side effect of trapping sand where it doesn't belong.

"When you dive, the sand goes down the top and collects in the bottom," McPeak, 39, said.