I’m sorry but many people have supported this for years, including the players. Unfortunately, for some people it is never about the sport and only about looking at women in bikinis jumping around and that’s why the industry is so mad about them wearing shorts. At the end of the day, it’s all about revenues. Sometimes it only takes one person to stand up and change the rules forever. Hopefully this is one of those cases.

This is absolutely awful. What is the problem with wearing shorts instead of bikini bottoms? I would see more sense in a rule AGAINST bikini bottoms while you play -_-

The first picture tells it all: men's uniforms are practical, women's uniforms are revealing. Well done for standing against this!

If anyone ever tells you there is no patriarchy and sexism in the west, show them THIS!

This has been going on in Europe for a while now, so disgusting. Women are being sexualized on purpose in this sport and it's all about money, which is why it has been so difficult to change these clothing rules

This is sexualizing women . They are here to enjoy and play handball for fun and competing , not for weird old guys staring contest . These girls should be allowed to wear shorts . Those bottoms look tight ( the bikini ones ),

They should take the International Handball Federation to court and accuse them of sexism and bigotry instead of paying a fine because the women refused to act as a stimulant and sex object for perverts.

I can't imagine how uncomfortable it must be to play volleyball while your bikini bottom is climbing up your butt.

Let's have the men in bikini bottoms, make it fair.

WTF. Those shorts don't impede their ability to play at all. Justify why bikini bottoms are required. Saying, "Well those are the rules," doesn't cut it.

These women should not be doubling as soft core porn fantasies. I've tired of so many guys I know making remarks about how "hot" this is and how this one has a good body, that one doesn't this one is cute...etc. They're not meat. This isn't Victoria Secret Sports in Lingerie BS.

What the f**k, how can this rule still exist???

I sent an email to ihf.office@ihf.info to declare their stupidity. Feel free to do the same!

they should make bikini bottoms mandatory for men too lol

1. Beach handball? 2. Who cares if they wear shorts? Stupid rule. Then again, there are thousands of them, slowly strangling us all. And—if it’s about having these athletes appear more sexy (which it shouldn’t, they’re athletes not strippers )—those ladies could look hot wearing 3 pairs of overalls.

If the European Handball Committee thinks there is nothing wrong with these rules, then let them go a week wearing crop tops and bikini bottoms out in public for the whole world to see. Add to it community service in which they have to bend, stoop and reach while in those outfits. Lets see how many times they're digging their bottoms out of the crack of their collective a$$es. Then see if they think fining a sports group for wearing shorts is justified.

Also worth mentioning since it's like the same but opposite is that a runner got in trouble for her shorts being "too short" for the Olympics when they were just a little bit longer than those bikini bottoms these women got in trouble for not wearing..... So women just can't win no matter what.

I think it's time the men should be fined for wearing shorts. Clearly they should be wearing bikini bottoms too!

I hear girls complain about dress codes and I think, "Get use to it, life sucks and if you are female you will always be judged and penalized for your appearance and wardrobe." You know because what a woman wears is far more meaningful than her ability. Glad people are shamming dress codes and crap like this. Sick and tired of seeing the never ending onslaught of critique and punishment for something as meaningless as cloth.

Beach volleyball used to have the same issue and then after enough complaints the international federation said, wait, you're right, this is stupid and now there is a range of approved options from full bodysuits (google egyptian beach volleyball for an image) through to bikinis. As long as your clothing is neither impeding you nor giving you an advantage the governing body shouldn't be getting involved in exactly what you wear.

Look at other sports and the same thing applies. Why a naked waist for woman and singlets for men? Are the women merely there for the pleasure of the eye? NO They are pro's. Abhinc is right, let men wear the bikinis !

For anyone upset about this gross and sexist rule, here are the ways to contact the IHF. I would recommend that everyone flood them with the same request, get rid of that rule. POSTAL ADDRESS Peter Merian-Strasse 23 P.O. Box, CH- 4002 Basel Switzerland PHONE +41 (0)61 228 90 40 ihf.office@ihf.info

If the rules stated women could wear loose fitting shorts and long vests, and the men had to wear brief budgie smugglers there would have been uproar a long time ago.

This is disgusting in the year 2021. Should've been changed in like 1970.

Let me guess, some men made that decision?

Can we stop with the clothes policing already? It's been ridiculous for more than a century. Women couldn't wear slacks, women couldn't wear bathing suits of any kind, men can't wear skirts, girls can't show shoulders. It's all so arbitrary and evolves to just different arbitrary terms over time. If there is no basis in function, then ditch the rules and let people just wear what they want to wear.

At least the shorts are tight. We get some good cameltoe action :)

One solution would be to require the men to also wear bikini bottoms. Actually, that could be fun to watch.

I've read comments like "It's a beachball, thay are on the beach so they should wear bikini bottoms" but there was nothing about men wearing swimming trunks... Everything else apart, shorts are so much more comfortable to wear while playing any ball, rules are just rules, if they're stupid, they can be changed...

The league put forth the regulations regarding uniforms just like every other regulation governing the sport and those engaging in it. Everyone who is signed to play for that sport agrees to all of those regulations when they sign. That includes the types of uniforms they are required to wear. Those women are all adults and they agreed to the regulations when they were signed to play for the league. That constitutes a LEGALLY BINDING contract that they all signed when they signed up to play. If they didn't like the uniforms, then they shouldn't have agreed to wear them when they signed that contract to play the sport in the first place. Now their choices are simple: Either shut up and wear the uniforms, like they agreed to from the beginning, and play the sport they signed up for, or quit. Either way their whining about it now is just pointless.

Isn't this Damn Close to Sexual Harassment ??

Oh my ... as long as ... I don't even want to know where to start. Can't they, like, wear whatever they want?

Of course they'll object!!!! They won't be able to see the bikini becoming G-strings…because, as everybody knows, people at the beach “really “ watch the game and not the asses…

Ah yes, I would very much like to wear bikini bottoms that exposed my skin to the sand as well as possibly getting sand in places where it ought not to be rather than shorts where my butt cheeks are safely covered. No, I want to make sure to sunscreen my rump. (Sarcastic post is sarcastic) Like honestly (and seriously) why not wear short? Make bikini bottoms an option, but not mandatory!?