Bikinis no longer required for women's beach handballers

Women's formation handball players volition nary longer beryllium required to deterioration bikinis portion competing, according to caller standards acceptable by the International Handball Federation.

The alteration comes aft Norway's women's formation handball squad was fined successful July aft they chose to deterioration tight-fitting shorts and vessel tops alternatively of bikinis during a lucifer connected July 18.

The good prompted planetary backlash from critics who said the bikini requirements "sexualized" pistillate athletes. Others pointed retired that men's uniforms see shorts and vessel tops and called the quality betwixt men's and women's uniforms a "double standard."

The caller azygous regulations bespeak that pistillate formation handballers volition deterioration vessel apical jerseys and tight-fitting shorts — a modular that much intimately resembles the men's uniforms.

According to the new regulations, some men's and women's vessel tops are "sleeveless and adjacent fitting." Neither men nor women are permitted to deterioration T-shirts nether their jerseys.

Players' shorts indispensable beryllium chopped astatine slightest 10 centimeters supra a player's kneecap. Women are required to deterioration "short choky pants with a adjacent fit" — a modular that does not use to men.

During acold upwind matches, players are permitted to deterioration a "tight shirt" and "long choky pants (down to the ankle and not to the knees)."

According to NBC News, the IHF adopted the caller standards connected Oct. 3. The changes volition spell into effect successful January 2022.