The Australian men’s rowing team just won silver at the Olympics… and all anybody can talk about is their genitals

THE male Australian rowing team are attracting a lot of media attention and it’s not because of their silver medal win in the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Yesterday, the team of  Karsten Forsterling, Alexander Belonogoff, Cameron Girdlestone and James McRae narrowly missed out on the gold medal.

But after years of inequality over the men’s and women’s beach volleyball uniform, this time the focus has finally shifted from the sporting triumph, to the physical “attributes” of the male competitors.

For some countries, the lower half of their rowing suit is a demure, modesty-maintaining black, but not for the Australian men’s rowing team, they wear an unforgiving  light green colour.

And it seems the Olympics photographers don’t quite know how to tackle the situation, they either take a close up in an utterly unflinching manner, or frame the photo in an odd manner.

To some extent, their wetsuits have to be tight as there can’t be an extraneous windsock slowing them down when things are coming down to .001 of a second.

But it might be time to consider an undergarment, or try a different design, for the athlete’s sakes because as you can see from these images, design and colour play a big part.

Although, at least the incident gives us a chance to use the word which is the male equivalent of a camel toe, known as ‘moose knuckles’.

Urban dictionary describes the incident as when “a man has his pants hiked up too far and has split the difference in his bean bag leaving one nut on either side of the crotch seam.”