Posted: Jul 30, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: July 30
Norway s beach handball federation was fined after its women s team wore shorts instead of bikini bottoms in the bronze medal match of the European Handball Championships in Varna, Bulgaria.(Norwegian Handball Federation)
In a number of recent incidents that have made news around the world, women athletes are pushing back against restrictive standards for competition clothing.
During the European Beach Handball Championships on July 18, the Norwegian women s beach handball team was fined for eschewing the sport s typical bikini bottoms, instead opting for shorts.
And on July 25, the German women s gymnastics team wore ankle-length unitards (instead of the usual bikini-cut leotards) during qualifiers for Olympic competition.
Hip Injury Forces Ashleigh Barty Out of French Open
Barty, the world’s No. 1 player, had to leave the court for medical treatment during her second-round match.
Ashleigh Barty, who had struggled with a hip injury in her first-round win, wore a wrap on her left thigh on Thursday.Credit.Clive Brunskill/Getty Images
June 3, 2021Updated 10:04 a.m. ET
PARIS Ashleigh Barty, the No. 1-ranked player in women’s tennis, is out of the French Open after aggravating a left hip injury during her second-round match with Magda Linette on Thursday.
“It’s heartbreaking,” said Barty, who won the French Open in 2019 and did not defend her title last year after she chose to stay at home in Australia instead of traveling during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Fauci Warns New Virus Mutations Are a ‘Wake-Up Call’
On Friday, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci warned that new virus variants, despite the global vaccine distribution, should offer a wake-up call to the continuing dangers of the pandemic.
We’re all aware of the variance that we knew dominated the U.K. B.1.1.7 , the B.1.351 in South Africa and other variants, such as the P.1. in Brazil. When these variants were first recognized, it became clear that we had to look at, in vitro, in the test tube, whether the antibodies that were induced by the vaccines that we had available would actually neutralize these new mutants. Antigenic variation, i.e. mutations that lead to different lineage do have clinical consequences because as you can see, even though the long-range effect in the sense of severe disease is still handled reasonably well by the vaccines, this is a wake-up call to all of us that we will be dealing as the virus uses its devices to evade pressure, particularly immunolog