What credit unions can learn from the Norwegian Women’s Beach Handball team

by Chip Filson, Just a Member

While the Olympics are over, the stories of international sporting lessons are not.  These sometimes transcend individual athletic feats and tell of hard-fought life challenges.  One of these stories is about the Norwegian Women’s Beach Handball team.

The team was fined $1,500 euros for wearing “improper clothing” in the sport’s Euro 2021 tournament.

The European Handball Association’s Disciplinary Commission fined the players for their protest in refusing to wear the regulation bikini-bottom to go with midriff-baring tops.  The rules require the bottoms be “a close fit and cut on an upward angle toward the top of the leg” and a maximum side width of 4 inches, according to International Handball Federation regulations.

Male players are allowed to play in tank tops and shorts no longer than 4 inches above the knee.

 

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