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• Australian equestrian Shane Rose, a three-time Olympic medalist, decided to push the sartorial envelope, competing in a skimpy mankini -- the kind popularized by the 2006 movie "Borat."
In fairness, the annual Wallaby Hill Extravaganza in New South Wales is a costumed competition, where equestrians put horses through their paces in all kinds of wacky get-ups. Some even go through multiple costume changes, which was the case with Rose.
As the Wallaby Hill Equestrian Centre put it on Facebook, Rose "truly showed us 'all he's got' as he wore less and less with each horse he entered the arena with."
But someone complained about the mankini, USA Today reported, leading governing body Equestrian Australia to bar Rose from competing while it investigated.
(Even rowdy Aussies must follow codes of conduct, after all.)
For a few days, Rose's Paris Olympics plans hung in the balance, but he was soon cleared of any wrongdoing.
Let's hope he changes clothes before heaving a big sigh of relief. [USA Today, 2/19/2024]