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I don't have a new incident to report, but instead I'll report on something I saw over 10 years ago. I was at the FINA Masters World Championships at Stanford University. For anyone who doesn't know, the Stanford complex is UNREAL: the best in the USA by far. The FINA MWC was held there because of the 2 side-by-side 50m pools and the additional warm-up pool, so the 2600+ American and foreign athletes would have plenty of competition lanes, warm-up facilities, and seating areas.
The Avery Competition Pool, used by the Stanford swimming, diving, and water pool teams, was used as the warm-up pool. This pool is an 8-lane 37m pool with a bulkhead. It was configured to 25m for the meet. The seating areas are amazing: at least 1000 seats on either side of the pool, each side with an overhead sunshade roof structure. During the meet, swimmers sat on one side of the stands in the shade, and switched over to the other stands when the sun moved. I was up in the shady-side stands one morning, hanging out with a few guys in between races when we all saw something that made us all stop talking in mid-sentence.
About 30m away in the stands, a few German women changed out of their suits without a care in the world. I know that there's a tradition of FKK in Germany, but still, I was pretty surprised to see what we all saw. As I said, we all stopped talking and looked over, not because someone pointed it out necessarily, but probably because the guy who first noticed trailed off and was just looking, and everyone else in the group followed his line of sight when he got quiet.
We are all accomplished deck-changers, and we've been doing it for years. You know, wrap the towel around your waist, pull off your suit, finish drying off, then slide on the shorts under the towel, all pretty quickly. These German women did nothing of the sort, and they took their time. They pulled down their suit straps in plain sight and then put on their tee-shirts. Then they finished by pulling the suits the rest of the way off, just standing there, not wrapped in towels, just wearing tees, chatting without a care in the world. When the shorts finally came up, a few minutes into the operation, about the only thing anyone in my group could say was "That's not something you see every day."
Usually, the people we'd see doing this at a beach or someplace aren't necessarily the people anyone would like to see taking their time changing, uncovered, in plain sight. This, this was different, because they were all in great shape.
I don't have a new incident to report, but instead I'll report on something I saw over 10 years ago. I was at the FINA Masters World Championships at Stanford University. For anyone who doesn't know, the Stanford complex is UNREAL: the best in the USA by far. The FINA MWC was held there because of the 2 side-by-side 50m pools and the additional warm-up pool, so the 2600+ American and foreign athletes would have plenty of competition lanes, warm-up facilities, and seating areas.
The Avery Competition Pool, used by the Stanford swimming, diving, and water pool teams, was used as the warm-up pool. This pool is an 8-lane 37m pool with a bulkhead. It was configured to 25m for the meet. The seating areas are amazing: at least 1000 seats on either side of the pool, each side with an overhead sunshade roof structure. During the meet, swimmers sat on one side of the stands in the shade, and switched over to the other stands when the sun moved. I was up in the shady-side stands one morning, hanging out with a few guys in between races when we all saw something that made us all stop talking in mid-sentence.
About 30m away in the stands, a few German women changed out of their suits without a care in the world. I know that there's a tradition of FKK in Germany, but still, I was pretty surprised to see what we all saw. As I said, we all stopped talking and looked over, not because someone pointed it out necessarily, but probably because the guy who first noticed trailed off and was just looking, and everyone else in the group followed his line of sight when he got quiet.
We are all accomplished deck-changers, and we've been doing it for years. You know, wrap the towel around your waist, pull off your suit, finish drying off, then slide on the shorts under the towel, all pretty quickly. These German women did nothing of the sort, and they took their time. They pulled down their suit straps in plain sight and then put on their tee-shirts. Then they finished by pulling the suits the rest of the way off, just standing there, not wrapped in towels, just wearing tees, chatting without a care in the world. When the shorts finally came up, a few minutes into the operation, about the only thing anyone in my group could say was "That's not something you see every day."
Usually, the people we'd see doing this at a beach or someplace aren't necessarily the people anyone would like to see taking their time changing, uncovered, in plain sight. This, this was different, because they were all in great shape.