Leek gets dressing down after breaking record in racy cossie

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SYDNEY'S Peter Leek was admonished by FINA officials for wearing"immodest" swimmers at the Water Cube, while Australia's firstfemale Aboriginal Paralympian was ordered to explain the origins ofher indigenous flag before being allowed to keep it on display inthe Paralympic village.
Leek, 19, from St Marys, was told after winning the S8 100 metresbutterfly final at the Water Cube that his skin-tight hip-to-kneecostume - the same "knicks" style favoured by Olympians MichaelPhelps and Pieter van den Hoogenband - was "unacceptable and dosomething about them before tomorrow".
Leek decided what to do, all right. He decided to wear them againyesterday.
"I was a bit shocked," said Leek, who has cerebral palsy. "Theywere my normal swimmers - nothing was different as far as I couldtell. I will check with my coach, but I think I will wear themagain. Anyway, I'm over the moon. I've being waiting 10 years forthis gold medal."
Leek was taken aback to be bailed up on the pool deck straightafter clocking a world record to win his first Paralympic goldmedal. His briefs are one of the designs officially sanctioned byFINA. They are supposed to be tight, but the FINA official saidthey were too tight.
The problem for Leek was his costume had slipped down at the back.The Speedo suit is supposed to be worn only two or three times butLeek considers it to be lucky. The teenager nicknamed "Pipes" had aclassic case of what can only be described as plumber's crack,right in front of Paralympic sponsors and the FINA officials. Butthe FINA official seemed to overreact.
A highlight of the swimming has been China's Fuying Jiang, bornwithout arms, doing butterfly by swooping down the pool like adolphin. She blew the roof off the jam-packed Water Cube when sheled the 200m individual medley - only to be mowed down centimetresfrom the wall by an American dwarf who had been lifted up on to theblocks for the start. Quite a sight.
Meanwhile, Tahlia Rotumah, 16, who also has cerebral palsy, wasquestioned by officials about the Aboriginal flag in the athletes'village, which is overflowing with the colours of the 100-pluscompeting nations. Rotumah's flag was allowed to stay when herheritage was explained.