The allure of a naked Olympics

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“The day is just dry!” Said a fellow journalist as he pulled a chair next to my desk.

“These, are the Rio Olympics hangovers, they should have lengthened the naked Olympics after the main event for crying out loud, aha, I tell you,” he mumbled as he tore into his daily schedule.

This got me thinking. Naked Olympics for a whole week, month, possibly a year?

It’s actually possible considering that Rio presented the spectacle a week ago with events attracting nude competitors participating in football, beach volleyball, swimming and sprinting. Mmmh.

Proponents of the sport have put forth the argument that this has nothing to do with sexuality, but just the continuation of the original Ancient Greek games where all competitors were stark naked.

And it is just a celebration of our bodies, enthusiasm to be free and an embrace to positivity and healthy living. Well, you can’t beat that until you flip open the debacle that is on everyone’s mind.

The trick is not on the participation itself considering that the sports listed above are not individual events but rather the mumbo jumbo that some participating countries and individuals will be navigating in.

For a fact, granted that individuals who may want to participate may have confidence extensions like NASA rocket boosters to space, most Islamic countries and other conservative nations or groups will prefer to shoot you into space and end their misery rather than let you ‘dangle’ everything for the world to see.

That’s harsh you may say, but take a snap back memory lane in other Olympics and you’ll find that even the just concluded ‘normal’ Olympics in Rio Brazil also presented a challenge to some countries be it in terms of dress, gender,  general stereotypes etc.

It will all come down to the nudity in the sport. The option of not looking at the participants ‘goodies’ either the millions of spectators or by other competitors. The ogling will be the sport!

For other progressive countries and individuals, this presents a new dimension to sport, spectator delight and a grand flare in competition. Tokyo Olympics 2020 is just a corner away.

 Best of luck!