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Top female athletes speak out amid Olympics, defy convention through their uniforms
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Top female athletes speak out amid Olympics, defy convention through their uniforms
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Posted: Jul 30, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: July 30
Norway s beach handball federation was fined after its women s team wore shorts instead of bikini bottoms in the bronze medal match of the European Handball Championships in Varna, Bulgaria.(Norwegian Handball Federation)
In a number of recent incidents that have made news around the world, women athletes are pushing back against restrictive standards for competition clothing.
During the European Beach Handball Championships on July 18, the Norwegian women s beach handball team was fined for eschewing the sport s typical bikini bottoms, instead opting for shorts.
And on July 25, the German women s gymnastics team wore ankle-length unitards (instead of the usual bikini-cut leotards) during qualifiers for Olympic competition.
The Anachronism of the Month award this month can only have one winner, and what a worthy winner it is. Step forward the European Handball Federation, which has emerged from deep in the 1980s to clinch the honour. The sport’s officials roused themselves briefly to attend the 21st century in order to deliver a stern reminder to the Norwegian women’s team that Baywatch attire is mandatory. The players’ offence? Wearing shorts instead of bikini bottoms in a competition. The international rules of handball state that to compete, women have to wear tight bra tops and bikini briefs, with the emphasis on the “brief”. Pants have to be close-fitting, cut upwards on the leg and have no more than 10cm of fabric at the sides. Male handball players, by comparison, can wear shorts in a looser-fitting style, and tank tops covering their torsos. (I’m not making any of this up.)
2021 Olympics: Why are some women still wearing skimpy uniforms
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