European Handball Federation fined players €1,500 for wearing shorts instead of bikini bottomsPop star Pink has offered to pay the “sexist” fines handed out to the Norwegian women’s beach handball team after they refused to wear bikini bottoms while playing.The European Handball Federation, the sport’s governing body, fined the team €1,500 (£1,295) last week for…
2020 Olympic games are said to be the most equal in history, not only in absolute numbers of women and men which are almost equal for the first time ever but also in terms of new events offered in the relay (e.g. mixed relay in triathlon). Additionally, women now compete on an Olympic level in…
Widely regarded as one of the best rock climbers of all time, male or female, Lynn Hill is also known as one of the pioneers of gender equality in rock climbing and sports in general and a role model for many girls around the world. Lynn Hill is the first person to free climb The…
BMX sport traditionally used to be considered as one of the masculine sports. It has born in Latvia about 30 years ago. Olafs Lakucs was among those who started the culture of BMX in Latvia. They started it from zero with the first self-made bicycles. There were no girls among them at the beginning (I…
The #Tokyo2020 Olympics will have close to equal representation of women & men athletes for the first time in the history of the games. By comparison, in 1900, only 2.2% of the nearly 1,000 athletes that participated in the Olympics were women. Women in sport defy gender stereotypes, make inspiring role models and help promote…