‘No good cause’: Norway seaside handball stars vent frustrations after being slapped with fines for not carrying bikini bottoms

Two stars from Norway’s girls seaside handball crew appeared on British tv to clarify the furor that has surrounded their determination to put on shorts on the latest European Championships versus bikini bottoms.

Tonya Lurstaad and Julia Fowl each featured on the favored ‘Lorraine’ program on ITV, explaining how they’d wished to make the transfer “for a very long time” and wished to “make a press release and alter the regulation.”

The Norwegian crew had voiced opposition to their uniforms for the match held in Varnia, Bulgaria, final weekend with their most important motives being the bikini bottoms made them really feel “sexualized” and have been uncomfortable for these on their interval.

The Norwegian seaside volleyball ladies wished to play in these shorts as an alternative of in bikini bottoms which they discovered too revealing however have been threatened by the EC match organizer with fines in the event that they wore something protecting greater than 10cm of their butts pic.twitter.com/LHSxXz91CM

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EHF rules burdened they might be hit with a positive for protecting greater than 10cm of their bottoms.

As they have been able to tackle Spain of their final match for the bronze medal, Norway determined to go for broke through the use of the shorts anyway, earlier than being hit with a positive which totaled €1,500 ($ 1,768) – which and was branded “utterly ridiculous” by their Minister of Tradition and Equality Abid Raja. 

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Assist from their federation, which can foot the invoice, and others has been complete too, as Lurstaad defined on UK TV.

“From our federation, there was quite a lot of help,” she stated. 

“Each different federation as nicely – besides those making the foundations – have supported us. We’re so grateful for the help.”

Stressing that there was “no good cause” to put on the bikini to play seaside handball, Lurstaad added: “We have simply been advised that that is the rule.”

“We need to develop this sport so everybody can really feel they need to take part.

“Due to physique insecurities, quite a lot of girls simply say, ‘No, I do not need to do that’. And that is actually unhappy.”

Fowl identified the lads’s crew have additionally been supportive as per forcing modifications.

“Individuals have been fairly shocked that ladies as we speak in 2021 cannot select what they need to put on. It has been overwhelming really,” she claimed.

“If the fellows can do it in a t-shirt and shorts, we should always have the ability to do it in the very same outfit,” insisted Lurstaad.

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