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Singer-songwriter Pink has involved in a sexism row in the sport of beach handball. She has to the aid of the Norwegian women's team after they were for not bikini bottoms during the 2021 European Beach Handball Championships. The singer has to pay the fines handed out to Norway's competitors for wearing "improper clothing". Male competitors allowed to wear shorts, but the women were to wear bikinis. The European Handball Federation (EHF) the team $1,765 for not complying with the regulations. Pink took to Twitter and to pay the fine. She that the EHF should be fined "for sexism".

The Norwegian Handball Federation president said the bikinis "not appropriate clothing for the activity when the women are in the sand". The team's request to shorts during the championships turned down. Male players were allowed to in sports shirts and shorts no longer than 10cm above the knee; while women were to wear midriff-baring tops and bikini bottoms "with a close fit and on an upward angle toward the top of the leg". Norway's Minister of Culture the discriminatory dress rule "antiquated" and "completely ridiculous". It : "How many attitude changes are in the old-fashioned international patriarchy of sports?"