Opinion | Britni de la Cretaz: Norway's beach handball protest is about a lot more than bikinis. - NBCNewsTHINK
. Meanwhile, men can wear shorts at least four inches above the knee, provided they are “not too baggy.”
This act of defiance did not come out of nowhere — the Norwegian women say they have been complaining to the IHF about the bikini-bottoms problem since at least 2006. Each Norwegian handball rebel was fined 150 euros , which the Norwegian Handball Federation says it will pay. But this act of defiance did not come out of nowhere — the Norwegian women say they have been complaining to the IHF about the bikini-bottoms problem since at least 2006. In their mind, the fact that they have to compete in skimpy uniforms, when their male counterparts do not, is a sexist double standard.
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