Norway’s females” s coastline handball group have actually hailed the adjustment to the International Handball Federation (IHF) consistent plans.
Women gamers are currently allowed to use “body fit storage tank tops” as well as “brief limited trousers” when completing.
Norway had actually objected versus previous consistent regulations that claimed females need to use “fitted, low-cut swimsuit bases”.
The IHF stimulated reaction by fining Norway EUR1,500 charge for putting on shorts rather at the European Coastline Handball Champion last summer season.
Yet Euronews reported last month that the IHF had actually silently changed its main plans on “incorrect clothes”.
Norway’s females’s group has actually invited the step, claiming the brand-new attire is a “action in the appropriate instructions”.
” After numerous years of attempting to alter the outfit code in our sporting activity, we ultimately made it,” the group claimed in an Instagram message
” We have actually currently taken an action in the appropriate instructions, as well as with any luck the sporting activities appears a little bit much more open as well as comprehensive (sic) currently.”
” We are actually expecting obtain interest based upon our showing off success as well as not our attires”.
The group included that they understand “numerous gamers have actually denied chances” in the sporting activity as a result of the previous consistent policies.
Female’s attires for main coastline handball competitors had actually for years been criticised as also derogatory or also not practical.
Denmark’s sporting activities priest Ane Halsboe-Joergensen claimed the swimsuit base policies were “out-of-date” as well as “came from an additional nation”.
At the same time American artist Pink called the regulations “extremely sexist” as well as also provided to pay Norway’s penalty.
Federal government preachers from 5 European nations– Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, as well as Finland– required the regulations to be transformed “according to sex equal rights”.
Among those preachers– Norway’s previous Priest for Society as well as Equal Rights Abid Raja– claimed the consistent plans were “totally ludicrous,” “plainly differentiating as well as dated”.
Raja additionally invited the brand-new regulations, yet informed Euronews that he wanted the IHF “had actually taken the complete action in the direction of sex equal rights.”
” I had actually instead seen that the Federation would certainly pay attention to the women gamers themselves as well as made sure equivalent regulations for male as well as women gamers,” Raja claimed.
The Norwegian Handball Federation additionally claimed “it would certainly have been also much better if the regulations included one collection of consistent policies independent of sex.”
Euronews has actually gotten in touch with the IHF for a reaction to Norway on the brand-new clothes needs.
