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NORWAY – POLAND 35-22: A crown-crowned Polish team took on European Championship favorites from Norway in tonight’s opening match for a while, but will hardly be the national favorite for that reason.
In otherwise sports-crazy Poland, to put it mildly, the handball girls’ slightly heroic first round against Norway isn’t a huge event. Almost to the point of return in tonight’s game, the main posts on the national broadcaster’s website were news about jumpers, concerns about poor results in the cross country opener and soccer.
The other major Polish online newspapers also had room for a national boxing hero who won the crown, how the national volleyball team can reach the World Cup in 2022 or who will be on the list of the top 20 Polish athletes in the world. season.
There will be no handball girls guaranteed. These girls are simply off the national sports scene:
- The Polish women’s match against the clock to prepare for the opening match of the European Championship against Norway has hardly been mentioned in their home country.
It’s okay. The annual pre-Christmas fun with the handball girls is still great for us. We must be able to raise our heroes freely.
But that position compromises.
THE BALL GIRLS it has been for decades the most important of Norwegian team sports, and that culture must be protected in the best possible way. This is the only international team sport in which Norway has been the leading sports nation for years.
Therefore, the pleasant reunion with Nora Mørk, plagued with injuries, the great rhythm of the attack game and the number of goals in the opening of the European Championship, was not the most important for a Norwegian handball sport still very strong.
There is no reason to worry because not everything went as it should in the opening game. Off the field, it should work for Norway this time.
Norway must go home first!
IN THIS In abnormal times, sports must be carefully weighed against social considerations. It is precisely the position of handball as a branch of the Norwegian parade that requires it.
That is exactly what the current handball administration understands. It is full of competent and socially conscious people. And if it fails in A simple evaluation during the European Championships, the sport of handball is so ingrained at the national level that many good leaders of the movement will say clearly.
That’s what happened when the handball leadership a year and a half ago ruined their sport in a confusing secret election campaign for the presidency in Norwegian sports.
AND I everything happens openly; or more precisely, as open as it can be at the time of the crown. We know which players test positive and we quarantine them. We do not know where the virus may be at any given time. This means that this championship ends in crisis.
Already on opening night, Germany tried to postpone the game against Romania for fear of infection. Therefore, the virus is loose in our CE group.
Some believe that it is a crisis just to compete in the European Championship. For example, playing against a Polish team where more than two thirds of the players in question have had or are affected by a crown.
It occurs in a country where the women’s handball team does not matter much, but is now ravaged by the virus. In Poland, more than a million are infected and the death toll will soon exceed 19,000.
Børsen: She was the best for Norway
NORWAY he has escaped most of these ravages. It obliges in every way the national teams that manage the common Norwegian sporting joy.
I think it was okay for the handball girls to go to the European Championship, but it won’t be okay if they forget why they are there:
- This team characterizes Norway’s own sports culture more than most of our main sporting environments.
Then it must also be operated according to common Norwegian rules and values.
Chaos after Norway no
WHEN in the case of infection, it means that in infected girl, is in too. While Danish organizers approve of all contagion as long as there are players healthy enough to line up a Norwegian team, the management of handball must follow a different standard:
- New infection in the squad, must involve a whole team in 10 days of quarantine. In other words, that the European Championship is against Norway,
It is this rule that the Norwegian health authorities have established as a prerequisite for granting the best sports an exemption from community service. It has been a successful initiative with a lot of fun in national soccer. Just think of all the joy that Bodø / Glimt has spread amid the virus in the last six months.
And that’s the reflection that this applies to.
HANDBALL GAMES since tonight has such a fitting sporting value. These were the so-called “world stars” of the sport against a significantly weakened Polish team. There won’t be many memories of that. This is how the European Championship will go on at best if the infection is kept away. A championship without spectators will be special anyway.
What the home crowd will remember from this tournament is how Norwegian handball maintains its usual high level off the field.
Since we all want the game we love the most, it can suddenly be a challenging match for both the players and the administration.
But there it is not possible to lose for such an important Norwegian team.
