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GIVES The handball girls fought worse against France in the final of the European Championship, experienced TV3 commentator Gunnar Pettersen would rather have Nora Mørk on the bench. He thought she was daring too little on the back right, and he was right. But then it was Nora who turned the game around for Norway:
- While the French girls were in their prime, she was more daring and hit the ball at an angle from a great, great distance.
Under pressure, only the best do it that way. And in 2020, Nora Mørk is the best. Not only for handball girls, but also for Norway.
So it was good that NRK turned in at the twelfth hour and received an award at the Sports Gala for “Achievement of the Year”
That price is the one created for Nora Mørk.
NORWAY has returned as the gold champion in handball because Nora Mørk was back in place after years of injuries and adversity. It wasn’t the case that the Eurocup top scorer alone carried the team through the championship and into this dramatic final, but the 29-year-old came in with the added qualities that together make Norway the best in the sport.
Here we are spoiled for a long time. It has been many years since the extremely powerful product “handball girls” was created at NRK. Since then, TV2 managed to become the dream partner, before the girls were intercepted by TV3 / Viasat, which has shown that they can also make this sport superior entertainment. Like this final of the European Championship a little crazy against France.
I secured the gold in a great final thriller
THROUGHOUT In this championship, Nora Mørk has been so good that she is the girl who has had the strongest performance this year in Norwegian sports. This prestigious award is the last state channel that NRK has left with Norwegian handball offers, but this opportunity is very good in return:
- The annual sports gala is one of the most watched programs on Norwegian television.
Therefore, it would be a shame for NRK to celebrate Saturday January 9th without Nora.
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me THE SHRINK of the Sports Gala for the year of the virus 2020, NRK was close to achieving it. It would have been one of the biggest mistakes of the sporting year, but that wasn’t exactly that easy to see when the number of awards was drastically reduced in necessary fear of the crown last summer.
For a long time, the intention was to cut absolutely all prices based on the 2020 results at this TV party. Fortunately, that changed over time:
- In two weeks, you can vote for Nora Mørk, and that exact vote should only be missing.
In a great Norwegian sports year with many strong international results from girls across various sports, Nora and handball stand out.
It’s amazing what she and Norwegian women’s handball have accomplished.
Everyone should have read this letter to Nora
OF In recent years, it has been very sad to be with Nora Mørk. Serious injuries, four operations, a brave deal with all the shit that being a female sports celebrity can entail, but the most painful illness in the immediate family. It takes a lot to focus enough on your sports work in between that, but Nora has done it:
- She became the top scorer in the European Championship and led Norway to the final with a wise game against Denmark.
Before daring that shot, the passes and advances that marked the way to the final of the European Championship in Norway in a match where the handball girls could eventually only be part of the fun because the defensive work was so good and archer Silje Solberg was so brilliant.
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WOMAN HANDBALL It is the biggest international success in Norwegian sport. After Norway with the 1998 European Championship gold won its first international championship, Norwegian girls have dominated this sport more clearly than almost any nation in any other Olympic team game.
You have to go to America’s actual position in basketball to find a similar balance of power. But it makes little sense to compare one of the national sports in a great power to women’s handball in a country of just five million people.
That makes the Norwegian medal series so special.
FOR In these more than twenty years, handball girls have won 8 golds in European championships, 3 golds in world championships and 2 Olympic golds. In 23 of 27 championships they have been to the semifinals, finishing with 19 medals in total.
It is during this period that the Norwegian approach to the game has developed tactically with handball. First of all, through an extreme pace increase that has created completely new physical demands on the players. But also through the anchoring of common tactical thinking in the group of players, where responsibility has shifted from the bench to the field.
This work to hold the individual player accountable started with former coach Marit Breivik, but previously passed to Thorir Hergeirsson. He joined this national team in 2001 and took over as head coach in 2009.
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THE The television availability of handball has made it easy to follow this Norwegian approach based on knowledge of the sport. When it was the worst wave against Denmark before the break in the semi-finals on Friday night, Thorir was calmer.
Then he spoke in a low voice about «a small meter that was missing»In the transfer back, and reminded the players of the confidence in their own abilities that is always necessary to reach the agreed game in the future.
Or as he put it quite calmly about the players’ attacking tactics in the timeout right after Nora Mørk shot Norway in the match, and the European Championship final broke out:
– How do you want it?
WHY Only these two steadfast coaches have led the Norwegian heyday in handball, it has been easy to understand the strength of such a democratic and knowledge-based leadership. But this dominance would not have been possible without a sport with many professionally strong local handball communities.
Nora Mørk herself comes from that environment. He grew up in tired little Bækkelagshallen with his mother as head coach and father as sports supervisor as his career quickly took off. The residential area at the best eastern end of Oslo is the traditional handball district of the capital. Impressively, new and good players have been constantly developed, as various local communities around the country work with handball players who maintain a high international level.
SO Six Norwegian girls have also been named the best in the world at the sport during Norway’s golden age. First Trine Haltvik from Trøndelag in 1998, then goalkeeper legend Cecilie Leganger from Bergen in 2001, Gjøvik girl Gro Hammerseng in 2007, Vestfold Heidi Løke in 2011, Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren from Ski in 2017 and finally Stine Bredal Oftedal from Nittedal just outside Oslo.
Good geographical distribution, that is, in a sport that before the football boom was by far the most important women’s sport in Norway, and which is now experiencing great growth again.
THE It is the distribution and national growth that makes women’s handball so important to all Norwegian sports. The fact that this broad-based work can be combined with high-level player development and consistent international success makes pricing more sense.
And now is the time to present this year’s achievement award 2020 to Nora Mørk.
– She is the toughest I know
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