Having swum 1500m in the Serpentine, cycled 43km round Hyde Park in a wet cossie and run till she dropped for 10km, she had been denied a share of gold by what seemed like a dodgy art critic's appraisal of that photo-finish. |
Following previous pictures of the new Spidey looking ripped and slinky in his skin-tight cossie, this still is presumably designed to appeal to those who like their action flicks spliced with domesticity. |
In New South Wales, swimwear is known as swimmers or cossie and, in Queensland, it is togs. |
Since then she's won two Olympic medals and three World Championships, the last of these in 2003, by which time she was wearing a green and gold Aussie cossie. |
On a chilly weekday there's no one at all in the pool, but I'm getting a picture, on a hot summer day, of a kind of My Big Fat Classless Picnic Paradise, where everyone's the same in a cossie. |
While my grandparents sat rocking with laughter in their deck chairs, I trundled down the catwalk in my cossie, holding a beach ball, bright red with shame. |