Can somebody tell Radio Live it's the Commonwealth Games, not the Olympics?

Meanwhile....


Looks like the Australians are going to be swimming in suits eh? They look pretty good. They look a bit like comicbook superheros.

This kinda swimming suit jaz started out with Aussie super-swimmer Ian Thorpe (announced last week not to be competing) in the 2000 Olympics. I wonder if the idea has taken off anywhere else? Don't imagine there are any Kiwis dressed up this way, have to watch and see on Thursday.

One team that does it though is the Pakistani woman's team. It says in the Herald Sun today (cover above) that it's the reason they get to swim at all. Being Muslim, Pakistan never used to let women get involved. Showing off a woman's body like this is un-Islamic after all. However, thanks to the swimming-suits devout Muslim chicks are in the game. Good on them for that. If Islam was as bad as some would have us believe then it could easily suppress these girls from thinking up a compatable solution and, indeed, stop them from being able to petition for, and have their inclusion in, The Games granted. Yet here they are, devout Muslims and all.