Today In FFS News: Russia Shows Off Its Female Olympians As Underwear Models

The PR stunt has positively backfired...

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by Sophie Wilkinson |
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Today in FFS News, we have something from Russia. No, not another report of police arresting someone for waving a rainbow flag. Nope, not more twitpics from journalists arriving at half-built hotels in Sochi, being expected to dwell in rooms with no lights, or use tap water the colour of urine.

It's actually a photoshoot of female members of Russian Olympic team, in lingerie, posing like they're Kelly Brook. According to MailOnline, the site they were first featured on, AdMe.ru, explains: 'We sincerely support our team and believe that its strength is not only in sports achievements'

Ok, well, that makes a bit of sense, but is there anything to justify getting women who train tirelessly so that their bodies can do things other than seek male sexual approval, to pose sexily for the lads?

'Our Russian Olympic team defies stereotype that women in sport are just a heap of muscles and masculine shapes.' Oh…no.

The photos have done very well in Russia, and feature a whole range of talented, hard-working athletes reduced to their sexual attractiveness - Tatiana Borodulina, a speed-skater, is all nipples and bum in a clingy dress with no underwear. Ekaterina Galkina is seen posing seductively with a curling stone (well, obviously, she IS a curler after all), and another curler, Alexandra Saitova is seen in a metallic bikini, holding an old-school microphone stand. Next to a disco ball. Meanwhile Svetlana Kolmykova gets her very own boudoir shoot, and is seen leaning over a dressing table, hooking her lacy knickers down. We'll get back to you when we work out the link between that and ice hockey. There's more, but you get the gist.

If we wanted extra cast-iron proof that Russian social mores are basically men being men and women being women, then we've got it. In slightly better Olympics news, however, today's Google homepage features lots of outlines of athletes against a rainbow background, presumably in solidarity with those suffering under Russia's anti-gay laws.

Pictures: www.prosports.ru

This article originally appeared on The Debrief.

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