By Carly Stern For Dailymail. Team USA's women's beach volleyball team donned sports bras and bikini bottoms as they hit the court on Monday for a practice session ahead of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. While the tiny, skin-baring uniforms have been around for Olympic Games past, this year they've proven controversial after Norway's team refused to wear them for the recent European Championship , claiming the revealing bikini bottoms make them feel uncomfortable and unnecessarily sexualized. What a change of attitude is needed in the macho and conservative international world of sport. Members of Team USA, however, don't appear to have objections to the skimpy sportswear, with team members photographed donning them for practice.
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A bikini is typically a women's two-piece swimsuit featuring two triangles of fabric on top, similar to a bra and covering the woman's breasts , and two triangles of fabric on the bottom, the front covering the pelvis but exposing the navel, and the back covering the buttocks. In May , Parisian fashion designer Jacques Heim released a two-piece swimsuit design that he named the Atome. His skimpy design was risque, exposing the wearer's navel and much of her buttocks. No runway model would wear it, so he hired a nude dancer , Micheline Bernardini, from the Casino de Paris to model it at a review of swimsuit fashions. Due to its controversial and revealing design, the bikini was accepted very slowly by the public. The swimsuit gained increased exposure and acceptance as film stars like Brigitte Bardot , Raquel Welch , and Ursula Andress wore them and were photographed on public beaches and seen in film.
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