Before Athletes Were Machines
August 21, 2016
ONE OF THEĀ first women’s Olympic gymnastics teams can be seen competing here, in the 1928 Olympics in the Netherlands. They don’t quite have the sculpted, bioengineered look (see below) of today’s Olympic athletes.
Here are women’s tennis players from the Berlin Olympics in 1936:
By way of contrast, these women (the 2016 U.S. women’s gymnastics team) are … scary:
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