The IHF will now allow bike shorts and tank tops for women's handball teams. The International Handball Federation has updated its uniform rules after backlash over its women's bikini requirements.

Speaking to Newsweek, the USA's women's beach handball team's head coach, Lisa Dunn, commended the Norway team's actions and backed a change to the rules. "The strict rule on women's uniforms has ...

The battle between the team and handball's governing body sparked ... would "do its utmost to influence a change in the beach handball uniform regulations" but that any formal decision rested ...

Norway's women's beach handball team were fined for refusing to wear the bikini bottom uniform in the EHF Beach Handball Euro in July. Credit: Shutterstock / Dan POTOR In a new development ...

Norway’s team had been planning for weeks ... Federation level,” he said. The Norwegian Handball Federation suggested changing the uniform requirements for female athletes during a meeting ...

Norway’s women’s beach handball team wore shorts during a championship game in July in protest of the bikini-bottom regulation, saying the requirement made them “very uncomfortable.” ...

In the summer of 2021, Norway's women's beach handball team reignited a controversy over glaring gender discrepancies in the uniform requirements of various sports, including their own.

“I’m very proud of the Norwegian female beach handball team for protesting the very sexist rules about their ‘uniform,’” she wrote on social media. “The European Handball Federation ...

The European Handball Federation fined the team for refusing to wear skimpier uniforms. International Handball Federation (IHF) rules require women to wear bikini bottoms “with a close fit and ...

“I’m VERY proud of the Norwegian female beach handball team FOR PROTESTING THE VERY SEXIST RULES ABOUT THEIR ‘uniform,’” Pink tweeted. “The European handball federation SHOULD BE FINED ...

I'm VERY proud of the Norwegian female beach handball team FOR PROTESTING THE VERY SEXIST RULES ABOUT THEIR "uniform". The European handball federation SHOULD BE FINED FOR SEXISM. Good on ya ...

The Norwegian women's beach handball team has a fan in international pop ... team for "protesting the very sexist rules about their 'uniform'" by wearing shorts instead of bikini bottoms and ...