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<\/span><\/span>Norway have been fined 1,500 euros (\u00a31,295) for wearing shorts instead of bikini bottoms at the European Beach Handball Championships.<\/span><\/p>\n Norway’s players wore shorts instead of bikini bottoms during a bronze medal match against Spain in Varna, Bulgaria.<\/span><\/p>\n Norway’s Handball Federation (NHF) had already stated it would pay if their players were fined.<\/span><\/p>\n An EHF statement said a disciplinary commission had imposed a fine of “150 euros per player, for a total of 1,500 euros”.<\/span><\/p>\n It added that Norway had played with shorts that are “not according to the athlete uniform regulations defined in the IHF [International Handball Federation] beach handball rules of the game.”<\/span><\/p>\n Kare Geir Lio, the head of NHF, had told news agency AFP any penalty would be paid but added: “It should be a free choice within a standardised framework.<\/span><\/p>\n “The most important thing is to have equipment that athletes are comfortable with.”<\/span><\/p>\n Before the Championships, Norway approached the EHF to ask for permission to play in shorts but were told that breaches of the rules were punishable by fines.<\/span><\/p>\n A Norwegian motion to amend the current rules will be discussed by the bodies in the coming months.<\/span><\/p>\n “The EHF is committed to bring this topic forward in the interest of its member federations – however, it must also be said that a change of the rules can only happen at IHF level,” said EHF spokesman Andrew Barringer.<\/span><\/p>\n