Female athletes have reacted angrily to new close-up cameras at the World Athletics Championships which they say show their bodies from intimate angles.
The miniature cameras within the athletes' starting blocks are meant to 'capture the intense moment just before a race'.
But women say the camera makes them uncomfortable as they have to climb over it in the moments before a race.
One German athlete, sprinter Gina Lückenkemper, told Bild: 'Was a woman involved in developing this camera? I don't think so.'
She went on: 'I find it very uncomfortable climbing over this camera in skimpy running clothes to go to the starting block.'
Tatjana Pinto, another German competitor at the championships in Doha this week, has also complained about the new cameras.
As a result, German athletics bosses have demanded that the footage only be displayed once the runners are already on the starting blocks.
In addition, the camera footage will be deleted every day, the German authorities have been reassured.
Governing body IAAF heralded the 'innovative' new camera angle when they announced its introduction earlier this month.
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'Athletics fans around the globe will be closer to the action than ever before,' they promised.
One IAAF official apparently felt that felt 'audience was missing a crucial moment of the drama by not being able to see the athletes' faces at the start of sprint race'.
'The new cameras within the blocks will capture that intense moment just before a race,' IAAF broadcast director James Lord explained.
The IAAF has already been beset by controversy over Qatar's hosting of the athletics championships.
Former long-distance champion Haile Gebrselassie said 'it was a mistake to conduct the championship in such hot weather in Doha, especially the marathon race'.
'God forbid, but people could have died running in such weather conditions', Gebrselassie said.
The women's marathon Friday started at midnight to dodge the worst of the heat but was still held in humidity that made it feel like 105F.
Twenty-eight of the 68 women dropped out of the race and one was briefly taken to hospital.
There has also been criticism of the empty seats at the stadium, with seemingly as few as 1,000 people in the ground for the women's 100m final last night.
This article has been adapted from its original source.
