Social Media Is Drooling Over Canadian Olympian Brandie Wilkerson After Cameras Caught An Incredible View Of The Beach Volleyball Star’s Backside

who competed for Team USA in Tokyo, tells PEOPLE at the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP)’s first post-Olympics tournament in Atlanta. “At the Olympics, we’re allowed to wear long pants, turtlenecks — we can wear whatever we want. We all choose to wear bikinis.” another AVP athlete who represented Canada at the Tokyo Games, says she “loves” playing in a bikini.

“It’s sensible, useful attire for being in the sun and the sand,” she says. “And there are lots of sports — no one is asking why you wear a bathing suit if you’re in the swimming pool.” condemned the “sexist” uniform requirements.

“I think when you start restricting the options, it’s a problem,” Wilkerson says. “But if someone chooses to wear something very small or very big, there shouldn’t even be a conversation.”

Claes’ teammate”Let them wear what they want,” she says — and notes that while men often play shirtless, it’s never a controversy to see them wearing jerseys during the Olympic Games.

“No one is like, ‘Why are the men wearing shirts?’ ” she says.