Romanian gymnasts in fresh nudity row

[aaron]

Romania could be banned from international gymnastics competitions after three former stars posed nude for an adult movie.

Double Olympic gold medallist and five-time world champion Lavinia Milosovici and two other female Romanian gymnasts, Corina Ungureanu and Claudia Presecan, filmed a nude performance near Tokyo.

Japanese gymnastics officials complained and say they could ask the International Gymnastic Federation to ban Romania from next year's Yokohama junior Grand Prix. Romanian officials fear other countries could follow suit and that the national team could be facing a worldwide ban.

It is not the first nudity scandal concerning Milosovici, Ungureanu and Presecan who have also posed for Playboy magazine. For their latest performance, the trio posed nude on competition-standard apparatus, such as the beam, for an adult movie broadcast by a private cable network.

Koji Takizawa,executive director of the Japanese Gymnastics Association, said: "Even if Milosovici has retired from competition, her act is a disgrace to gymnastics."

The president of Romanian Gymnastics Federation, Nicolae Vieru, told the Adevarul newspaper: "What these girls did is very shameful for us and I don't think we deserved that. The Japanese were the first to react but other federations would do the same and we may be in the situation of not being invited to any competition."

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[taiko]

I think that there is a big difference between work and personal life.
Everyone has the right to do what he wants with his life, and noone can blame him. What's the problem if they are former olympic champions? It means that once you win a medal. or you are a star you can't have a life?
Have you seen the pictures?
I think there's no difference between this pictures and the ones with the athlets competting nude at the Ancient Olympic Games.
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[kajuroe]

First of all the world needs to get over itself about this whole nude human body thing. We are all comprised of the same parts both inside and out. Men like to see women naked. Hell, most women like to see women naked. there's nothing wrong with being naked. I'm naked right now. I love it.
We Americans are the worst about it though. We all want to see it, but you're a bad person if you show it. All you have to do is look at our broadcast TV to see how bad it is. They will show every part of a womans body in a comercial except for her nipples, her pubic hair, or her ass crack. They'll show the ass, just not the crack. They'll show the boob, but not the nipple. And God forbid you see some pubic hair.
So in case you haven't figure it out, I do not think that anyone should be punished for what they did. Especially not the gymnists that had no part in it

[BarefootBoy]

The Romanian gymnasts should be commended. They are, after all, the only gymnasts true to their name, since the word "gymnast" comes from the Greek word "gymnos" which means naked. By rights, all gymnasts should perform naked.

Andrew

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[disappointed_fan]

The disgrace the three Romanian gymnasts brought to their sport, their country, their fellow gymnasts and to the fans of this wonderful sport is obvious and there's nothing much to debate on this subject. Of course, they have personal liberty, & freedom to choose what they can do with their lives, & that includes posing nude & acting in adult movies as well. But one should remember that there are a million ways to pose nude, and there are a million themes on which nude photos & films could be taken. But the fact that the theme of them 'performing the sport in nude', was taken to show their nudity is outrageous and highly disgraceful ( Photos or video of them on a beach side would'nt have been so disappointing). It clearly shows that the girls were over-exploited & dishonoured just for some money. The pictures of them nude with the medals around their neck is something that brings shame to the sport, to their country and to THOSE WHO GAVE THE MEDALS!. It cant get more dis-graceful than this(why should the medals come into the picture????????and the sport??). It's really dis-heartening to see world champions & olympic medal winners stooping down to the level of mere porn stars, just for some money, throwing away the honour the sport has given them.

Yes, they become rich by doing so, but at what cost? The medals, fame, glory & honour are not their personal achievements alone. The Romanian government, various sponsors should have spent money on them, coaches would have spent years coaching them, fans, family and friends would have spent their time, money and energy lending their support for them, but in the end -alas!!!! there they are with the medals around their necks posing nude for a Japanese magazine. All these people have together raised them to glory, but they instead used their fame to sell themselves for a better price,(would they have got the same price for their photos & videos if they were merely 'Romanian girls' and not 'Champions from Romania'? The price that was fixed was not for their bodies but for their title ) Truly, they had NO regard to those people who had lifted them up to fame. This would create a bad opinion about Romanian gymnasts-people who know this would view the gymnasts as mere objects of sex with a price tag on them(Hei, look at that one, how much would she cost?) (I'm sorry about that comment but that's exactly how porn film makers view them). Clever people would know that TRUE freedom lies not in being able to ACCEPT such offers, but in being able to REJECT such offers. They have not only brought shame to the very sport that gave them honour but also brought in a potential threat to fellow gymnasts (Many more such porn movie makers may try to approach young Romanian gymnasts).

The officials were correct in banning them from coaching. How can people-however skilled they might be- who dont know the value of honour & glory & dont have respect for the sport but keep money above all these things, be allowed to coach young minds who are the future of gymnastics in Romania?

[x3dre]

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x3dre

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