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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.)

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