Pink affords to pay wonderful handed to Norway’s seaside handball workforce after they refused to put on bikini bottoms
Pink is providing to pay for fines given to the Norway’s girls’s seaside handball workforce after they refused to put on bikini bottoms throughout their bronze-medal match on the European Seaside Handball Championship.
The three-time Grammy Award winner wrote on Twitter on Saturday that she’s supportive of the Norwegian workforce for protesting the principles, even providing to pay for his or her penalty.
“I am VERY happy with the Norwegian feminine seaside handball workforce FOR PROTESTING THE VERY SEXIST RULES ABOUT THEIR “uniform”” she wrote. “The European handball federation SHOULD BE FINED FOR SEXISM. Good on ya, girls. I will be pleased to pay your fines for you. Stick with it.”
The workforce thanked everybody for his or her assist in a publish on Instagram, saying, “You are the most effective.”
“We actually admire all of the love we’ve got acquired,” the workforce stated.
The Disciplinary Committee of the European Handball Federation (EHF) fined the Norway workforce 1,500 euros ($1,768), or 150 euros per participant final Monday, for “improper clothes” after they wore shorts of their loss to Spain on the European Seaside Handball Championship.
Clothes has lengthy been a difficulty in seaside sports activities, with some girls gamers discovering bikinis degrading or impractical. Whereas bikinis haven’t been obligatory for seaside volleyball gamers since 2012, Worldwide Handball Federation (IHF) guidelines state “feminine athletes should put on bikini bottoms” and that these will need to have “a detailed match,” be “minimize on an upward angle towards the highest of the leg” and a facet depth of not more than 10 centimeters. Male gamers put on shorts.
Forward of the match, Norway requested the EHF for permission to play in shorts, however have been informed that breaches of the principles have been punishable by fines. They complied, till their final match.
“The EHF is dedicated to carry this subject ahead within the curiosity of its member federations, nonetheless it should even be stated {that a} change of the principles can solely occur at IHF stage,” EHF spokesman Andrew Barringer stated.
