12.04.07

No shorties/fatties need apply

Posted in Health, Manners, Olympics at 03:04 by Mul

The Beijing Olympics organizing committee has begun the search for medal presenters for next summer’s Olympic games and has decided that presenters need to meet certain minimum criteria, namely that they be female, tall and skinny. Oh yes, and pretty. And educated. Unbeknownst to me, book smarts are essential to the complicated task of medal-awarding. The ceremonial positions are open to female university students between the ages of 18 and 25 years old and between 5 feet 6 inches and 5 feet 10 inches tall. While there is no official weight requirement, according to a Washington Post interview with the director of the cultural activities department of the Beijing Olympics organizing committee:

“we do have requirements for their height and the figure, because we have to make clothes for them, and we have technical guidance for that…”

Let’s call that a weight requirement, shall we?

What will the hostesses wear? According to the China Daily, it’s a “hot” controversy.

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