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Brit Flits Nix Knicks! London (August 2001) -- Female athletes competing for Britain in the World Championships say their official team knickers are too skimpy. The runners are worried they will be flashing their bottoms at spectators. Officials say they don't want athletes to feel uncomfortable and have allowed them to wear last year's Olympic kit. Kathy Butler, who is competing in the 5000m at the championships in Canada, says the small knickers have left athletes with a dilemma. "If you pull them up you can see your bum and when you pull them down you can see your hips. They just don't fit properly," she said. She added: "I can't find my old Olympic ones, so I'll be wearing the hipsters." A spokesman for UK Athletics said that officials have given the all-clear for runners to wear last year's design. "Something had to be done. We can't ask our top athletes to run 25 laps wearing something they feel uncomfortable in," he said.
Those Athletic Lassies That Race In The Buff by derrymacash
(Another parody of a Percy French song .... this time of "Come Back Paddy Reilly ...")
The garden of Eden is vanished they say
The birthpace of Adam and Eve
But me, I found heaven, last Wednesday
On a sports show on my oul' TV
There were girls on the screen and their costumes were mean
They were flashing their midriffs and thighs
Those athetic lassies that race in the buff
Have got me subscribing to Sky
I used to like Baywatch and exercise shows
But now I'm convinced that they're tame
Ever since I've discovered the athletic meets
I can't wait for the Olympic Games
I'll have me a spree of one-handed TV
The hours they will fairly whizz by
Those athetic lassies that race in the buff
Have got me subscribing to Sky