Rugby Players' Secret
by Geraden
Here is something I read on the sports page of bbc.co.uk. It comes from a piece dated 10.08.2008, written by Jon Wilkin, Rugby League player and correspondent.
I would like now to let people in on a secret that rugby players have - we all wear tights on long journeys.
This is not some perverse fetish the players keep from their wives or partners, it is something which is meant to make travelling less harmful to performance.
The tights may very well reduce swelling on planes and give you a spring in your step but you come off the plane a broken man having had people stare at you like you have illicit secrets.
These tights knock your confidence and I call for them to be banned!
So, the author acknowledges the medical benefits of wearing tights, but he thinks that these he-men are so afraid of what (ill-informed) people will think, that they lose confidence (in their own masculinity?) and would like the tights to be banned!
At least the American basketball players wore their tights openly on the pitch and fought the ban imposed by their association, the NBA!
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Lots of competitive swimmers openly wear tights/pantyhose while practising...
Right, Arcim, and they have no problems about it, do they?
Geraden
I often wonder if in sport .....If competitors wearing tights/pantyhose kept winning more and more races...Would they get band...Or would more people take up wearing them..
We have to accept that a lot of women dislike tights and of course men has
the rigth to dislike tigths too. It has nothing to do with the lack of
acceptance of men/women wearing tights. They just don't feel comfortable in
tights.
I stopped playing rugby in my late teens to secretly go to ballet classes
on saturday afternoons.Part of my interest in ballet was being able to
openly wear tights in a safe accepting enviroment.I felt very guilty
turning my back on my rugby friends and packing a sports bag with my black
tights,ballet slippers and leotard to go to ballet but pulling on a pair of
lovely lyrca tights helped me ovecome my guilt.
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