Well, international sporting authorities are really going out of their way to enrage fans
No shorts for you! Photo: Getty Images International sporting authorities are really going out of their way to enrage potential new fans — that is the only way I can think to explain the latest athletic news out of Norway. According to the New York Times, the European Handball Federation just fined the Norwegian women’s beach team for wearing tiny little shorts rather than bikini bottoms during a Sunday championship match in Bulgaria.
A reasonable question to ask here might be: Why does the European Handball Federation care, if bike shorts get the job done? Another is: Does the European Handball Federation not have better things to do than police the length of women’s athletic gear? A natural third: Do they impose similarly revealing mandates for male beach handballers? Let’s start with the first one.
According to the Times, the International Handball Federation — unfortunately this matter goes all the way to the top — dictates that women wear sports bras and bikini bottoms “with a close fit and cut on an upward angle toward the top of the leg,” and sides shorter than four inches, during beach competition.
Norway, by contrast, likes to play in little spandex shorts, and in fact, has been petitioning the IHF to let women wear them since 2006. But that was not enough to help the Norwegian Handball Federation avoid a fine of 150 euros, or approximately $177, per player for this protest of baseless rules.
Personally, I suspect that the requirement for women to show a lot of leg may have something to do with the IHF wanting to attract spectators — recall the time the Badminton World Federation made women play in skirts or dresses at the Olympics to boost ratings — though that is just a hunch I have. Anyway, this is just the latest example of an athletic agency clinging to archaic policy for archaic policy’s sake.
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