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- From: brand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert W. Brand)
- Subject: Re: To wear a shirt or not?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.174046.4219@rtsg.mot.com>
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:40:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.231844.168@tfs.com> ashish@tfs.com (Ashish Mukharji) writes:
- >
- >Well, then why is it that competitive runners always seem to wear
- >singlets when racing? All I can come up with is they don't want to pin
- >the number to their bare skin. :)
-
- Race belts solve this problem. I don't like the pin holes
- in singlets when I wear them either.
-
- >There must be a better reason. More room for ad space?
-
- bingo. That and probably 'tradition' like wearing white at Wimbledon.
-
-
- >It's not only top runners who do this ... running
- >sans shirt seems so much more comfortable to me.
- >
-
- Top triathletes often run sans shirt (and sans socks, pants,
- and anything else they can legally take off).
-
-
- >>Preston Briggs
- >
- >-ashish
- >
- >
- >--
- >Ashish Mukharji Jesus he knows me, and he knows I'm right,
- >ashish@tfs.COM I've been talking to Jesus all my life ... Genesis
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- --
- Bob Brand
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