Standing up for what's right.
There is no surf news today, many apologies, but a star German beach volleyball duo, comprised of Karla Borger and Julia Sude, is reportedly boycotting a tournament in Qatar because the country bans playing in bikinis.
“We are there to do our job, but are being prevented from wearing our work clothes,” Borger told radio station Deutschlandfunk. “This is really the only country and the only tournament where a government tells us how to do our job — we are criticising that.”
Qatar is hosting the March-slated FIVB World Tour for the first time after seven years of hosting a men’s competition. The female players have been asked to wear shirts and long trousers rather than bikinis.
The world beach volleyball federation FIVB supports the rule “out of respect for the culture and traditions of the host country”.
Borger disagreed, saying that they would normally be happy to “adapt to any country,” but that the extreme heat in Doha meant that bikinis were necessary.
What would the World Surf League do? Roll over like the Federation International Volleyball or stand up for bikini rights?
Qatar is attempting to host the 2032 Olympics and if surfing is still included we may get to find out.
Exciting days ahead.
I know right, some great stories from that time…..I grew up back east, 60′
Winter freezing usually growing up. Lots of fun sliding down hills on stuff. Good training. I freaked when we moved here, you could goi n the water all year!! (those east coast guys now in 6mm wetsuits? Thats hardcore.
Ben was shopping around a script for Metz…I have a google doc somewhere. edit:
https://docs.google.com/doc…
Its really long. he was obsessing a bit though. Great stories of OC though…man what a time.
Metz sounds like a cool dude. will watch later. Maybe this is the semi-movie they wanted to make. ?
Beach snorkel prancing.
What’s worse
than getting sand in
your trousers?
There’s plenty that don’t treat us like possessions.
It’s kinda obvious.
The worst is during ramadan where the poor pricks are working out in the heat and aren’t allowed to drink water!
Islam a bad.
I’ve worked in Qatar a bit. Full of hypocrite cashed up Arabs sinking piss at the right hotels; it’s not even secret. Also heaps of skanks from the Philippines at the right hotels and again, no big secret to anyone.
Because they are all hypocrites, they have to put up a veneer of piety and that means shit like bikini bans and the charade that there will be no alcohol during the world cup.
The worst is the way they treat the Indian labourers. Some of the poor bastards even resort to jumping in front of cars and killing themselves as there’s a bonus paid back home if you die on the job. I had one guy come up to me with this filthy bandage across his chest. Lifted it up and had a huge cut across his abdomen. It was stapled up with metal staples and seeping blood everywhere. Poor guy got hurt at work and laid off. Couldn’t get home. He should have been in a hospital bed. I gave him some cash but honestly I reckon he probably would be dead by now. It’s fucked.
Poor guy
Skank girl
Youd fit in there.
Wherever rig pigs go skanks soon follow but honestly there are way better places to spend your time. Qatar is worth visiting to see what happens if you give unlimited cash to people who were riding camels two generations ago. Unfortunately It’s not utopia and brotherhood of man.
Charming I’m sure.
Welcome back.
We missed you.
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eddie haiku lives here…only writes in haiku.
I..dont think yours is though
What are you on about?
Step off, dickbreath.
no thats a fact there guv….maybe thats not his name. He only posts haiku. Someone mistook you for him. You’ re welcome assface.
Wait til Qatar hosts the FIFA World Cup and the players find out that Qatar bans screaming and falling over for no reason.
Girls in bikinis, camels, Beach Boys? check, check , check
https://youtu.be/ALYoQ_-5sUI
Deutschlandfunk – who knew Germans liked to get down. And so efficiently, a whole radio station just for funk!
Not even 2 thou.
I got shut down when I once wore a bikini to my office.
Sexist bastards.
It was a hot day and I had to get the bus.
I’m sure watching your nuts popping out the g-shocker didn’t improve office morale.
My pop used to wear these O.P. corduroy short-as-shit-shorts back in the day. I tell ya what when I was a kid playing with my GI Joes on the living room floor and looking up to see a giant man sack poking outta his shorts at eye level…something I’ll never forget.
Good Morning Weirdos
Welcome to VolleyBallGrit
Bikinis and Balls!
SpikeGrit…
If you’re going to use your morals to boycott a competition, shouldn’t the reason be for being against said competition, be the slave labor that built the competition grounds, rather than your right to wear a bikini?
In a word, no.
My wife once cleared a beach in Abu Dhabi by wearing a bikini. We rocked up with the kids one afternoon to enjoy the sun setting over the water. Parked up and as she got set up there was a mass exodus of brand new Landcruisers. It appeared to the locals that the corruption inherent could only be avoided by leaving the zone. Will never forget the faces on most of the young boys as they hung their heads out the windows like dogs facing backwards to the wind…
“My wife once cleared a beach in Abu Dhabi by wearing a bikini.” – Damn shes that rough to look at?
She got 8 ass cheeks like mine?
They should though.
This article would’ve deserved more photos surely?
Scratch that. They’re no good. Different from photo in article. I’m with Qatar on this one.
I want to personally thank you for your research. I don’t often find myself standing with Qatar, though. I won’t stand with them per se on this…BUT I STAND BY YOU for researching what I desperately wanted to research here at work but can’t’cuz I’m a school teacher. It’d be a bad look.
I think going on Beachgrit is probably not a great look for a teacher anyway.
Not in the least that the font can be read from 15 feet.
what if i teach “Half-Cocked yet Full-Throated Surf Journalism for the Visually Impaired” ? did you consider that?
Not even a clickbait shot, thoroughly disappointed.
Rock the casbah…
Sharif don’t like it.