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Adidas stops selling 'sexual' T-shirts
Authorities order Adidas to suspend sale of T-shirts that sexualise Brazil's image

Sports manufacturer Adidas, who are one of the 2014 World Cup's main sponsors, has had to suspend the sale of World Cup T-shirts after Brazil's authorities complained they sexualised the country's image.

One of the shirts had "Looking to score?" imprinted on it next to a woman wearing just a bikini on a sunny Rio de Janeiro beach.

The other had an "I love Brazil" heart resembling the upside-down buttocks of a woman wearing a thong bikini bottom.

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