An absence of balloons

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Ladies polo tournament time again, and once again there are not enough lady players to make up four teams, so each team is allowed one Argentinian professional to help them out. Last year, the macho gauchos entered into the spirit of the occasion:

This year there was no sign of wigs or balloons. “We don’t like to do it”, confided one of the gauchos. Dressing up as ladies, even as a joke, is clearly contrary to the manly Argentinian polo player image. Shame, I think they looked rather cute.

Fede made a small gesture of gender differentiation with a discarded baggage sticker:

Although this hardly matches his effort of last year:

But on the last day, a gaucho broke ranks and made a, not very convincing, attempt at female impersonation:

Clearly, he had no idea about hair care and had to be attended to by one of his teammates.

How he giggled with delight when he went on to win the Miss Shiny Hair competition:

Although I think he would have won more convincingly with a couple of balloons up his jumper.

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2010-02-09 | Layla says

That’s hot!!!!