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Out! Wimbledon to Ban Tennis Teases
The Sunday Times - Britain ^
| 6/25/06
| Maurice Chittenden
Posted on 06/25/2006 4:29:23 PM PDT by beyond the sea
WIMBLEDON has served an early warning to the world’s tennis stars: step across the line on the tournament’s strict dress code and you will be sent packing.
For more than a century Wimbledon has fiercely guarded the genteel reputation that today sets it apart from other tournaments. Officials there want spectators to keep their eye on the ball, not on the increasingly revealing outfits that have caused controversy elsewhere.
The guide for competitors this year has been updated to warn them that they risk being defaulted — the tennis equivalent of a red card — if they break the tournament’s code of almost entirely white and most certainly decent clothing.
The pirate shorts favoured by the new pin-up Rafael Nadal, the Spanish winner of the French Open, will not raise an eyebrow provided they are white. Neither will the bare midriffs of players such as Tatiana Golovin, the Russian-born teenager based in France who has been known to take a pair of scissors to her outfits to make them even more revealing.
But the low-cut tops showing lots of cleavage, favoured by Maria Sharapova and Maria Kirilenko, are likely to be banned, as are loose- fitting outfits such as the one Sharapova wore at this year’s Australian Open which billowed up to reveal her underwear.
The 2006 Wimbledon players’ guide carries the new caution: “Any competitor who appears on court dressed in a manner which is deemed unsuitable by the committee will be liable to be defaulted.”
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: dresscode; sharapova; tennis; wimbledon
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"But the low-cut tops showing lots of cleavage, favoured by Maria Sharapova and Maria Kirilenko, are likely to be banned, as are loose- fitting outfits such as the one Sharapova wore at this year’s Australian Open which billowed up to reveal her underwear." ---- Bummer.
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To: al baby; astounded; presidio9; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Cicero; A CA Guy; evad; dennisw; cyborg; ...
Wimbledon .............ping.
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posted on
06/25/2006 4:30:32 PM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Scientists Are Itching to Blame Poison Ivy's Effect on Global Warming)
To: beyond the sea
We need examples! I don't follow tennis. Who am I to judge without a reference?
To: beyond the sea
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posted on
06/25/2006 4:32:19 PM PDT
by
COEXERJ145
(Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
To: beyond the sea
To: Jet Jaguar
Well, I guess it's baseball ALL summer
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posted on
06/25/2006 4:32:45 PM PDT
by
Tigercap
To: COEXERJ145
Tough to beat the "other Maria". (Kirilenko)
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posted on
06/25/2006 4:33:53 PM PDT
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: beyond the sea
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posted on
06/25/2006 4:35:40 PM PDT
by
Tall_Texan
(I wish a political party would come along that thinks like I do.)
To: Jet Jaguar
Sharpova at Wimbledon.
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posted on
06/25/2006 4:37:03 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: raybbr
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posted on
06/25/2006 4:37:04 PM PDT
by
CounterCounterCulture
(I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
To: COEXERJ145
I know, but I'm computer illiterate.
Here are some url's if you know how to do it.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060214/482/73f67101535349e0ac33e2c15cf021dc
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060214/482/7e95f907b40e4330add9056f4d45687d
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2006_swimsuit/models/06_maria_sharapova_9.html
2/16/06 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED
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posted on
06/25/2006 4:38:25 PM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Scientists Are Itching to Blame Poison Ivy's Effect on Global Warming)
To: beyond the sea
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posted on
06/25/2006 4:39:54 PM PDT
by
webster
To: FreedomCalls
I think that's in good taste ........ really. Great legs.
Thanks for the pic.
Could you post any of the ones in post # 11?
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posted on
06/25/2006 4:39:54 PM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Scientists Are Itching to Blame Poison Ivy's Effect on Global Warming)
To: beyond the sea
Does this include padded bras for those who have nips of steel?
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posted on
06/25/2006 4:40:16 PM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(There are only a few absolute truths in life, the rest are just opinion.)
To: webster
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posted on
06/25/2006 4:40:30 PM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Scientists Are Itching to Blame Poison Ivy's Effect on Global Warming)
To: beyond the sea
I don't have a problem with it......
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posted on
06/25/2006 4:41:27 PM PDT
by
Proud_USA_Republican
(We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
To: beyond the sea; COEXERJ145; Jet Jaguar; CounterCounterCulture
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posted on
06/25/2006 4:41:42 PM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Scientists Are Itching to Blame Poison Ivy's Effect on Global Warming)
Comment #18 Removed by Moderator
To: Proud_USA_Republican
That's not one of her best. She looks too skinny there.
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posted on
06/25/2006 4:42:28 PM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Scientists Are Itching to Blame Poison Ivy's Effect on Global Warming)
To: Jet Jaguar; COEXERJ145; CounterCounterCulture; raybbr
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posted on
06/25/2006 4:43:47 PM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Scientists Are Itching to Blame Poison Ivy's Effect on Global Warming)
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