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– This affects not only Serbia, but also the current world champions, says Bent Svele, handball expert from TV 2, to Nettavisen.
KOLDING (Nettavisen): A European Championship match should have been played at the Sydbank Arena in Kolding on Friday at 8.30pm.
However, the agreement between the Netherlands and Serbia has been postponed because two Serbian players have tested positive in the crown test after arriving in Denmark.
The second positive test was taken after the team was quarantined at the player’s hotel, where the Norwegian team also lives during the championship.
Here the Serbs check in at the player’s hotel on Thursday night. On Friday, a new player was infected:
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– Potential contagion bomb
TV 2 handball expert Bent Svele believes it is reprehensible that Serbia arrives just one day before it plays under the current crown regime.
– It is naive and very surprising, says Svele to Nettavisen.
– They have now traveled with a team for a whole day, and the incubation period can be up to two weeks. It is a potential contagion bomb. There is no doubt that it is.
Svele is particularly critical of the fact that the European Handball Federation and the organizer allow a team to arrive the day before a match in a championship heavily marked by the crown.
– You have 40 ring binders with measurements, but then you let a team in the day before it plays, and there is an infection in it. It will be strange, Svele thinks.
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– Not all teams are as good as Norway. Could there be financial reasons behind the late arrival?
– I guess so. Most of the teams fell here on Monday or no later than Tuesday. Serbia arrives on Thursday and will play on Friday, and they should be able to do something about it. I don’t know the background, but it’s too late. It is one thing that it affects them when they have to be isolated. At the same time, it goes beyond reigning world champion Holland, who now has to play two days in a row, says Svele.
The first player tested positive upon arrival at Billund airport on Thursday, while the second Serbian player tested positive on Friday, after the team was quarantined.
The player who tested positive on Friday and her space friend are now isolated per protocol. The rest of the team remains in quarantine and will be tested again on Saturday. Then, according to plan, the postponed match against the Netherlands will be played.
Herrem: – Worried if there is an infection in the bubble.
Camilla Herrem says she thought all the teams had arrived in Kolding a few days ago. She is happy that the players are being screened quickly at the airport, but fears it could still go wrong. She said this when only the first case of infection was known:
– The only thing that I think may worry you is if you are in that bubble, when you have played several games, and suddenly an infection is discovered. So it can spread very fast. “I think it is good that it is taken early and that no game is played when a positive test has been taken,” Herrem told Nettavisen.
Oftedal: – I hope it goes well
The captain of the national team, Stine Bredal Oftedal, is also aware that the ideal would be for Serbia to arrive earlier, but believes that there are several factors that come into play.
– It would have been much easier to resolve that situation if we had had a quarantine period first. Unfortunately, there are other aspects, also economic. It is much worse for other nations to travel early. It is very unfortunate that it is like that, but now I just hope it goes well anyway, Oftedal tells Nettavisen.
Earlier this week, it was also announced that Romanian Crina Pintea had passed a positive corona test. Space friend Laura Moisa, however, got the green light to play games in the Norway group.
Germany tried to postpone Thursday’s meeting with Romania for fear of infection, but the EHF refused. The management of the German team gave their players the option to choose whether they wanted to play or not, something they decided to do.
The Germans won the match 22-19, and now Norway has their turn in the next match at 6.15pm on Saturday.
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