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The Butt Cheek Of It & How A\u00a0DQ for ‘showing butt cheek’\u00a0got\u00a0overturned<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Commentary<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

\u201cI told her, \u2018I need to know how you\u2019re defining this, because this is going to blow up,\u2019\u201d Annette Rohde<\/strong> said after she \u201cfroze in disbelief\u201d when she saw the disqualification decision by the meet referee, who has not been officially identified.<\/p>\n

She said the official replied that the bottom<\/a> of the girl\u2019s suit \u201cwas so far up I could see butt cheek touching butt cheek.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

The story of how 17-year-old swimmer at Anchorage\u2019s Dimond High School in Alaska<\/strong> was disqualified after winning a 100m freestyle event last week can be read at Deadspin<\/a> and beyond.<\/p>\n

Rohde was right: blow up it has. And so it should.<\/p>\n

Can you imagine: “Ryan Lochte<\/strong>, you’ve been a naughty boy but this day you’ve surpassed yourself: how dare you carry yourself that way in a banana hammock. Hand back the gold and hang your head. Let this be a lesson to you to show more humility and modesty in future.”<\/p>\n

Not going to happen. Nor should it.<\/p>\n

Aussie fly ace Maddie Groves<\/strong> noted on social media that \u00a0tight modern suits are a pain in the privates for many women but there’s a job to be done. She added:<\/p>\n

“This poor girl was just trying to get the job done, nobody should be looking at her butt, let alone policing it. Totally unfair decision.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Quite.<\/p>\n

Witnesses told the Washington Post<\/em> <\/a>that the swimmer was accused of hiking her swimsuit up on purpose, a suggestion that had “crushed” the 17-year-old.<\/p>\n

The swimmer\u2019s mother wanted the decision overturned – and so it was.<\/p>\n

After Anchorage School District<\/strong> concluded their review of the disqualification, it agreed that the junior swimmer was targeted unfairly and sent an appeal to the Alaska School Activities Association<\/strong>. ASD said in a statement:<\/p>\n

“Following our review of the September 6 disqualification of a Dimond High School swimmer, to include interviews of multiple witnesses, the Anchorage School District has concluded that our swimmer was targeted based solely on how a standard, school-issued uniform happened to fit the shape of her body. We cannot tolerate discrimination of any kind, and certainly not based on body shape. This disqualification was heavy-handed and unnecessary.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The authority has not decided on whether to decertify the referee or whether to suspend the suit coverage rule.<\/p>\n

At swim meets the world over, this season and decades of them before that, athletes young to masters will be showing human flesh and shape in one form or another.<\/p>\n

Annette Kellerman and the Pioneers<\/h3>\n

The history of it all is long – and for women the fight for the right to wear a suit that put modesty before life and death was won by Annette Kellerman and others more than 100 years ago.<\/p>\n

The likes of Ethelda Bleibtrey<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0was among swimmers who took a stance so that women would not face discrimination in a bather.<\/p>\n

Annette Kellerman (read this fine piece by Chuck Warner)<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0did more to popularise swimming among women – saving lives along the way – than any other person a century ago. A childhood cripple, she swam her way out of steel braces and into good health. She said:<\/p>\n

“Only a cripple can understand the intense joy that I experienced when little by little I found that my legs were growing stronger and taking on the normal shape and powers with which the legs of other youngsters were endowed.”<\/p>\n

The normal shape and powers: that comes in all shapes and sizes and suits ride up and it happens all the time. Better that than death.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy:<\/p><\/div>\n

Kellerman stepped out onto Revere Beach in 1907 wearing a one-piece bathing suit that ended in shorts above her knees, her legs caused a scandal. Police were called, and she was arrested for indecency. She designed the Kellerman suit not just so as to be able to swim instead of float but because she had understood that women needed to learn to swim, needed to be safe in water, needed to have the same opportunities and rights as men.<\/p>\n

Bottom line: her one-piece suit save lives.<\/p>\n

In 2019, the referee who “crushed” the spirit and confidence of a 17-year-old should apologise in public, should be suspended and re-trained during ‘time out’: not because she interpreted a rule but because they way she did so was loaded in discrimination and a damaging lack of understanding of how his actions wounded a young swimmer in a way that could follow her in the pool and into adult life.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, if there is any lingering doubt that the official adhered correctly to the law, then the law is an ass and the rule should be changed.<\/p>\n

Should any swimmer in question turn up on the blocks with private parts hanging out, it would be reasonable to have a word with that athlete and even ask them to leave the deck. Shy of that, if modesty issues arise, they are matters that can be discussed in private by coach, parent and swimmer.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, modesty police with the power to punish have no place in the pool nor in the minds of young swimmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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