A rule requiring feminine seashore handball gamers to put on bikini bottoms quite than shorts throughout video games has been reversed after a global marketing campaign.
Key factors:
- Seaside handball officers have modified the ladies’s uniform rule from bikini bottoms to “brief tight pants”
- A petition from an Australian girl in Norway looking for a change to the unique guidelines attracted 61,000 signatures
- Male gamers are allowed to put on shorts that stay “10 centimetres above the kneecap”
The Worldwide Handball Federation (IHF) launched new guidelines earlier this yr, mandating feminine gamers to put on bikini bottoms “with an in depth match and reduce on an upward angle towards the highest of the leg”.
The European Handball Federation (EHF) then issued a wonderful of 1,500 euros to the Norwegian crew for a “case of improper clothes” of their bronze medal recreation in opposition to Spain on the European Championships.
The EHF stated the shorts have been “not based on the Athlete Uniform Rules outlined within the IHF Seaside Handball Guidelines of the sport”.
Information of the wonderful prompted an outcry on social media, as opposition constructed to the choice.
An Australian girl residing in Norway, Talitha Stone, began a petition to overturn the IHF guidelines.
Her petition on change.org obtained 61,000 signatures.
Pop famous person Pink provided to pay the crew’s wonderful on the time.
“I am very pleased with the Norwegian feminine seashore handball crew for protesting the very sexist guidelines about their ‘uniform’,” she tweeted.
“The European Handball Federation needs to be fined for sexism. Good on ya, girls. I will be completely satisfied to pay in your fines. Stick with it.”
The brand new guidelines permit feminine gamers to put on “brief tight pants with an in depth match”, versus the earlier requirement for bikini bottoms.
The brand new rules consult with male athletes sporting “shorts”.
“The [male] gamers’ shorts, if not too saggy, will be longer however should stay 10 centimetres above the kneecap”.
Ms Stone welcomed the choice by the IHF.
“I hope that is the start of the tip of sexism and objectification of ladies and women in sport, and that in future ALL ladies and women will probably be free to take part in sport with out worry of wardrobe malfunctions and sexual harassment!” she wrote on Twitter.