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Although she has been criticized for her clothing choices by those within the rather traditionally conservative sport of professional tennis, she has spoken out on the power of sport to shape body image and shift ideas of beauty. Tennis star Serena Williams, who will be competing for her fifth gold medal at the Rio Olympics, perhaps represents this most poignantly.
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(Photo credit: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images)Īlthough the Rio Olympics have been decried for their lack of preparation, potential health risks, corruption and many other reasons, the games do still broadcast a strong, visualized message of athletic and diverse beauty for young men and women, just as "The Body" issue does. the thirteenth day of the 2016 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on July 9, 2016. US player Serena Williams returns to Germany's Angelique Kerber during the women's singles final on. The institution of the gymnasium within Greek culture was inextricably linked to education and the conditioning of the body along with the mind, but they were also a link to sculpture, ceramics and other art forms. The word "gymnasium" comes from the Greek word " γυμνός," meaning naked, and these structures began to proliferate in Greece of the 6th century BCE. Panhellenic competitions in Archaic Greece often displayed the beauty of the nude male Greek body, but so did other civic institutions, such as the gymnasium. It was said that even Spartan women worked out in the nude. It was a symbol of Greekness at that time first associated with Spartans and then with many other Greek city states.
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Ancient Persians traditionally thought it against decorum to appear in the buff, and thus Greek nudity was an affront to their social mores. To him, athletic nudity was a show of civility in the face of the barbarism displayed by the Persian enemies to the East of Greece. BCE historian Thucydides suggests that this shift to nude athletic competition perhaps happened a bit later, closer to his own time. It was only later that a runner named Orsippus (or Orhippus) from the city of Megara decided to go naked, probably at the fifteenth Olympiad of 720 BCE in order to win the one-stade race (NB: a stade was the length of a stadium, which was often around 185 meters). The story goes that the Homeric athletes in The Iliad and the first ancient Olympians in 776 BCE originally wore loincloths to compete in.