The 2012 Olympics have been heralded as the Year of the Woman, as for the first time every competing country is sending at least one woman to the London games.
The focus is also on the women when it comes to one sport in particular: volleyball. In a Wednesday press conference, the Olympic beach volleyball competitors discussed their sport's famously skimpy uniforms, worn by the women but not the men. If Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh are wearing teeny bikinis, it was asked, why aren't the men wearing Speedos?
