Norway’s women’s beach handball team has been fined for refusing to play in bikini bottoms during a game in the sport’s Euro 2021 tournament.
Norway's Maren Aardahl, right, and Greece's Ntafina Dimitri during the 2018 Women's Beach Handball World Championships final match in Kazan, Russia.The Norwegian women’s beach handball team has been fined for refusing to play in bikini bottoms during a game in the sport’s Euro 2021 tournament.
The team wore thigh-length elastic shorts during their bronze medal match against Spain in Bulgaria on Sunday to protest against the regulation bikini-bottom design that the sport's Norwegian federation president called “embarrassing.”from the European Handball Association's Disciplinary Commission. While male players are allowed to play in tank tops and shorts no longer than 4 inches above the knee, women are required to wear midriff-baring tops and bikini bottoms “with a close fit and cut on an upward angle toward the top of the leg” and a maximum side width of 4 inches, according to"It's not [appropriate clothing for] the activity when they are playing in the sand," Norwegian Handball Federation President Kåre Geir Lio told NBC News by phone from Oslo.
"It was very spontaneous. We thought, 'Let's just do it now, and then see what happens,'" player Katinka Haltvik"I got a message 10 minutes before the match that they would wear the clothing that they were satisfied with. And they got our full support," Lio said.The team received support at home and abroad on social media.
"This is completely ridiculous! How many attitude changes are needed in the old-fashioned international patriarchy of sports?"
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