Why are we still policing female athletes' bodies in 2021?

Isobel Cootes
Updated July 26 2021 - 6:56am, first published July 25 2021 - 2:30am
What female athletes have to wear during beach handball matches. Picture: Ilnar Tukhbatov/Getty Images
What female athletes have to wear during beach handball matches. Picture: Ilnar Tukhbatov/Getty Images

Last week the Norwegian women's beach handball team was fined £1500 euros for wearing shorts instead of bikini bottoms in the European Championship bronze medal match.

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Isobel Cootes

Isobel Cootes

Journalist

Sports reporter at The Canberra Times. A Novocastrian with a passion for football (or soccer as they call it in the capital) via The Examiner and The Port Lincoln Times.

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