No old-fashioned Olympics for Qatar
Greece pulls nude Olympic statutes after Qatar wanted to cover ‘members’ with black cloth
Greece has pulled two ancient statues from an ongoing Olympic Games exhibition in Qatar in a dispute over nudity, a culture ministry source said on Tuesday.
“The statues have already returned to Greece,” a culture ministry source told AFP, adding: “Organisers in Qatar wanted to cover up the statues’ members with black cloth. So they were never put on display, they went back into storage and returned on April 19.”
The statues — an archaic-era Greek youth and a Roman-era copy of a Classical athlete — are both nude, the manner in which Olympic athletes competed in antiquity.
Full story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/23/greece-pulls-nude-olympic-statutes...
Ironically all Olympians in ancient Greece competed in the nude.
Britexpat you plonker it was the Asian games, when is Brazil part of Asia! But must same those lanky Koreans ladies were an eye full..aaaah
Khanan tells me the Brazilian Male Team were awesome ..
Apart from me does any one remember the beach volley ball in the Asian Games of 2006..:)
Why it is art
Think about it , it could be memes of people at that time
For Pete's sake. How stupid.
Was there a need to cover them. They must have been as hard as stone or titanium
Good work Brit lol
How wise your suggestion is ..
I have taken the liberty of donating my hardly used yellow Speedos to cover up Poseidon's modesty.
I wonder if we can use Rizks' Lungi for others ?
But the mannequins in some of the shops are much vulgar, highly erotic I’d say;
why don’t they cover them too?
Oh and a pair of shades as well. That would have been cool and quite arty as well.
Couldn't they have just popped a pair of speedos on them?
What to do yani
I agree... you can not cover up history and art... or even ignore human physiology.. What is organizer's explanation... that the statues would "generate desire"... lol.
Last sentence made me laugh
Come on they must need something to stop their parts from swinging while competing
Probably. A few years ago whilst in Riyadh, I went to buy an expensive coffee table book on art and the great painters. Luckily, I browsed through it first. Most of the pages had been defaced with black marker pens..
I just wonder if the guys with the black cloth were the same department as the black magic marker guys.
Sheer stuopidity. You cannot cover up history or art.