National Post Sports

Body snarking has turned into an Olympic event. As it turns out, the age-old question is not the needy and insecure, “Do I look fat in this?” but rather the misogynist, “Does she look fat in that?”

The London Olympics are just a couple of days old, but already Aussie swimmer Leisel Jones and the Brazilian women’s soccer team (and two months before that, the British beach volleyball women) have had their weight and fitness publicly called into question.

Jones, who is merely eight times an Olympic medallist and the reigning Olympic champion in the 100-metre breaststroke, has borne the brunt of it, if only because she was centred out individually, where with the Brazilians, who were called “a bit heavy” by the coach of the Cameroon team they coincidentally had just crushed 5-0, it was the lot of them.