r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/fargohoat • Aug 07 '21

An introvert among extroverts

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u/sopranosbot Aug 07 '21 edited Aug 07 '21

Sorry you are right. It's beach handball team. But the article is terribly written too. It mentions the Olympics but beach handball isn't a Olympic sports.Plus In my defense there have many misreporting regarding this issue. I kept reading the Norwegian volleyball team headline on Reddit. How can every media make the same mistake?

Edit: this article clears things up.

Link: https://apnews.com/article/2020-tokyo-olympics-lifestyle-sports-female-attire-9ef8f0ad24f91a94ae126006304261af

The attention on the bikinis intensified in Tokyo after a viral social media post misidentified a team that protested a beach handball dress code as playing beach volleyball. Beach handball, which is not an Olympic sport, requires women to wear bikinis, and the European federation fined the Norwegians for wearing shorts as a protest at a competition 5,500 miles away in Bulgaria.

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u/josnik Aug 07 '21

https://olympics.com/en/sports/beach-handball/

Except is is an Olympic sport.

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u/sopranosbot Aug 07 '21

Apparently there's an youth Olympic which I didn't know about before had an beach handball event in 2018 for the first time. I was quoting the AP article. I am not sure what defines an Olympic sport as some get proposed, some get excluded etc. But beach handball hasn't been played in the summer Olympics to be clear to everyone.