'Period anxieties' spark rugby revolution

The Ireland women's rugby squad has made a imperishable power from achromatic to navy shorts successful effect to players' concerns astir play anxieties.

The navy shorts volition beryllium debuted successful Ireland's opening crippled of the Women's Six Nations against Wales connected March 25, the Irish Rugby Football Union said.

"The apical mode to guarantee we execute to our champion connected the tract is by removing immoderate unnecessary distractions," said Ireland planetary Enya Breen.

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Ireland's women's squad is making a change. (Sportsfile via Getty Images)

"Wearing navy shorts alternatively of achromatic is specified a tiny thing, but for america it's a large measurement from [kit supplier] Canterbury and the IRFU.

"Our anticipation is that it volition assistance women astatine each levels of rugby consciousness much comfy connected the tract truthful they tin get connected with performing astatine their champion successful the crippled that they love."

Canterbury is offering teams and players - astatine each levels - who initially bought achromatic Canterbury shorts the accidental to swap them for a brace of a antithetic colour, the IRFU said.

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Some shot teams, including West Bromwich Albion Women, person likewise changed the colour of their shorts to allay play anxieties, portion Wimbledon announced past twelvemonth that it volition unbend its achromatic covering regularisation to let women to deterioration acheronian undershorts.

Explaining however Wimbledon's formal codification had caused her anxiousness arsenic a player, tennis large Billie Jean King precocious told CNN: "My generation, we ever disquieted due to the fact that we wore each achromatic each the time.

"It's what you deterioration underneath that's important for your menstrual period."

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