Talk about stupidity

The International Handball Federation has fined the members of Norway's women's beach handball team 150 euros each. Why? Because the players wore shorts, instead of the required bikini bottoms, during a game over the weekend.

The Federation requires women to wear bikini bottoms “with a close fit and cut on an upward angle toward the top of the leg.” The sides of the bikini bottoms must be no more than four inches. Men, on the other hand, can wear shorts as long as four inches above their knees as long as they are “not too baggy.”

This sport is not alone in being so stupid. Badminton World Federation decreed that women must wear skirts or dresses to play at the elite level in order to help revive flagging interest in women’s badminton.