The mayor of London said that Olympic beach volleyball athletes are "semi-naked women" who "glisten like wet otters."

It was one of Mayor Boris Johnson's "jolly good reasons" reasons to get excited about the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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A reporter wrote about Serena Williams' body and how other female athletes avoid emulating her physique.

During Wimbledon this year a New York Times reporter centered his article about body image among elite female athletes on Williams' "large biceps and a mold-breaking muscular frame" and why other female athletes don't want to have a similarly muscular physique. The Times' public editor said: "I see this article as a missed opportunity to really get under the surface of a pervasive and troubling issue in women's sports and, particularly, women's tennis."

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