The New York Times’ Sarah Lyall went into the mountains to get an answer to the most important question being asked in Sochi: Can we talk about your butt?
Olympic skiers have big butts, problems buying jeans
“Yes, I have an enormous butt.”
Clive Rose
Watching the skiers come off the slopes after their runs here at the Winter Games is to see a parade of superconditioned lower bodies whose every powerful contour ripples graphically underneath what are essentially very expensive tights.
“Yes, we have derrières,” said Chemmy Alcott, a British skier. “We’ve got booties. I’ve spent 28 years squatting in that squat position, and I’m really proud of it. It would be a lot easier for me to be a skinny normal person. I have to work really hard to get this muscle.”
Skiers say that they need big legs and rears to get them down the slopes as quickly and forcefully as possible.
Big butts are cool, but they come with an unexpected consequence: Finding a pair of jeans is apparently quite hard. Here are some shopping strategies.
Steven Nyman buy stretchy jeans!
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“We tend to tear the crotches in our jeans quite a bit,” the American racer Steven Nyman said. The introduction of leggings-style and elasticated jeans has been a godsend. “We have to buy stretchy jeans,” he said.Chemmy Alcott Buys! All! The jeans!
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“Every year, I buy the same pair of jeans in four different colors,” Alcott said. “You have to find the ones you find, and buy a lot of them.”Marc Oliveras forget jeans because jeans are too dang annoying!
“I wear sweatpants,” said Oliveras, who is known, he said, as “Le Gros ...” before using a local slang word that, he said, translates into “the Big Thighs.“Uh, maybe they should just become bloggers and, you know, just go to work without pants.
