The Colombian women's cycling team showed a little too much flesh at a race in Italy, according to some onlookers, even though the ladies were covered almost head-to-knee in Spandex.
As the smiling athletes posed before cameras this weekend, they seemed oblivious that their body-clinging uniforms and skin-shaded mid-section left little to the imagination and looked completely exposed in the crotch area.
From a distance, they looked more like the Brazilian team.
The design has caused a stir on social media — with many ranking it among the worst uniforms ever seen at a sporting event.
The BBC even censored it during a broadcast:
BBC - stumbling from one embarrassment to another MT @TheMediaTweets BBC censors Colombia's controversial cycling kit pic.twitter.com/tsYmJXZ3qM
— Tim Brannigan (@tim_brannigan) September 15, 2014
The women later unblushingly defended the unis:
