Pink offers to pay Norwegian women’s beach handball team fine
Pink has thrown her assist behind the Norwegian ladies’s seaside handball staff after they had been fined for wearing shorts as a substitute of bikini bottoms, providing to select up their invoice from the European Seaside Handball Championships.
The staff obtained a 1,500 euro (£1,295) effective from the European Handball Federation (EHF) after carrying shorts, deemed ‘inappropriate clothes’, throughout their bronze medal match towards Spain final Sunday, as a result of shorts are ‘not based on the athlete uniform laws outlined within the IHF [International Handball Federation] seaside handball guidelines of the sport.’
A request was made by the Norwegian Handball Federation (NHF) earlier than the event began for his or her gamers to put on shorts fairly than the ’embarrassing’ bikini bottoms which are regulated, based on Inside the Games, however they had been instructed that they’d be fined for ignoring guidelines which state bikini bottoms have to be ‘no more than 10 centimetres on the perimeters’.
Now, the 41-year-old world popstar has proven herself to be an enormous fan of the staff’s choice to put on what they felt snug in and face the effective.
Taking to Twitter, the Cowl Me in Sunshine songstress wrote: ‘I’m VERY happy with the Norwegian feminine seaside handball staff FOR PROTESTING THE VERY SEXIST RULES ABOUT THEIR “uniform”.
‘The European handball federation SHOULD BE FINED FOR SEXISM.
‘Good on ya, girls. I’ll be blissful to pay your fines for you. Stick with it.’
The foundations state that the lads’s handball groups are permitted to put on shorts which are ‘not too saggy’ and ‘10 centimeters above the kneecap’.
This isn’t the primary time Pink has voiced her assist for feminine athletes, after she tweeted praise for tennis player Naomi Osaka after she withdrew from the French Open citing psychological well being causes and confronted backlash, including from former Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan.
In a thread, Pink stated she was ‘proud’ of Naomi and referred to as her ‘an instance I’d present my kids’, in addition to singling out Venus Williams as ‘a goddess’ for the best way she answered to media scrutiny.
Following the criticism of their choice to effective the Norwegian feminine staff, the EHF has issued an announcement that guarantees ‘all efforts shall be taken to be able to additional promote the game’.
It continued: ‘This consists of the best presentation of the game and, by that, consists of the outfit of the gamers.’
Nonetheless, the EHF additionally stated that the response had been ‘based mostly on disinformation on the process’ because the IHF should log off on adjustments.
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