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SPEED SKATING

Bergsma leads Dutch sweep

Jorrit Bergsma led the Netherlands sweep in the men’s 10,000m at the World Cup in Heerenveen, Netherlands, on Saturday, edging national champion Bob de Jong in 12 minutes, 50.33 seconds. Compatriot Bob de Vries clocked 13 minutes, 3.41 seconds to finish third. Finland’s Pekka Koskela finished in 35.01 seconds to claim the 500m ahead of Japan’s Joji Kato and the Netherlands’ Jesper Hospes, who earned his first career podium finish. In the women’s 1,500m, Canadian skater Christine Nesbitt successfully renewed her rivalry with Irene Wust, finishing first in 1 minute, 55.68 seconds. Wust, backed by the home crowd, came second in 1 minute, 57.15 seconds. Russia’s Yekaterina Shikhova took bronze.

SAILING

Tunnicliffe wins all races

World No. 1 Anna Tunnicliffe of the US and her crew won all three of their first-day races in women’s match-racing at the world sailing championships in Fremantle, Australia, on Saturday. In difficult conditions in Fremantle’s inner harbor, crews faced a morning of hot easterlies and then cooler mid-afternoon sea breezes, which delayed the races while the course was moved away from shore. Silja Lehtinen of Finland and Australia’s Nicky Souter also had opening-day victories.

Source: Taipei Times

by Kazutaka Shimanaka

(Sep. 16-23), however, reports that since last summer white men’s briefs appear to have made something of a comeback.

“Perhaps the electric power cutbacks were a factor,” says a spokesperson for the Japan subsidiary of B.V.D. “Because beige chinos and other light-colored lightweight slacks were in fashion, dark-colored trunks showed through the material. So demand for white briefs made a comeback again.”

Still, out of concern that white briefs had fallen out of favor with women, most men tended to wear boxer shorts.

That said, lovelorn advice columnist Mikako Kikuchi writes that “The times have changed.” To wit, while an overwhelming majority of females say they don’t particularly like to see men wearing white briefs, the number who now prefer them has increased.

“Women seek ‘security,’” says Kikuchi. Since the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami on March 11, they realized that a man’s income or job position didn’t count for much. Instead, they sought men who had the vitality to survive, even in the wild. And to these women, claims Kikuchi, men wearing white briefs come across as masculine hunks....

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by Pongi

'Maeyasu Kawamura, 60, was indicted for theft on Friday, police in Osaka prefecture, western Japan, said...Kawamura has confessed to stealing the items, which included a wedding dress. “He seemed to get a thrill out of sleeping covered in women’s clothes,” a police spokesman said. “He seemed to like the smell.” No further details were available.'

Source: Japanese Panties: Men's Disposable Briefs - Asian Tube TV Online ...