
Qatar uturns on bikini ban at upcoming FIVB World Tour event
On Sunday two giants of the FIVB Women’s Beach Volleyball World Tour, Karla Borger and Julie Sude, German Pro Beach Volleyball Players, stated on radio station Deutschlandfunk that they intended to boycott the upcoming Katara Beach Volleyball Cup, a World Tour event in Qatar following all female players at the event being informed they were required to wear shirts and long trousers rather than the standard bikini uniform, which the world beach volleyball federation claimed was out of respect for the culture and traditions of the host country. Borger stated on the German radio station, Deutschlandfunk ‘We are there to do our job, but we are being prevented from wearing our work clothes. “This is really the only country and the only tournament where a government tells us how to do our job — we are criticising that.” Borger said that they would normally be