Considering our best players were completely blocked by Denmark, I think it was a good first half.    12-15  HT

There must be something rotten in the NOC, with all these athletes retiring earlier than expected right before the Olympics (and also Braathen taking a year off to switch to )   Edit: also means that Riiber will retire without an Olympic gold, which just doesn't feel right at all :<

This is written based on criteria applied to all National Olympic Committees (NOCs) with at least one male or female athlete who has a minimum FIS point of less than 120 for slalom (SL) and giant slalom (GS), or less than 80 for other events

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It's a shame, because the rest of the team has a lot of quality. Yesterday, I haven't seen France play such an uncreative game in a long time. The plays were always the same, through the center, but it seemed like the goalkeeper was always caught off guard. With a good goalkeeper, you could have easily won the match.

Jarl Magnus Riiber announced that he will retire at the end of the season 

Epp Mae Women 76 kg Wrestler announced retirement. 1 silver and 3 bronze in world championships. 

This is a very good question, and the simple answer is ..YES ..they always like that and even the old GK legends (Elrouby, Elnakeeb, Ayman Salah..etc) they were below average worldwide (locally they were the greatest) … the main question is …why? I am an ex-handball GK in Egypt and later played also in England for Reading Lions handball club, so what I am going to say about Egyptian GKs are not speculations but that was our real life and still.   Why I was a GK ..simply because I was left wing number 3 in the team, and by luck during some cooling break I was playing shot out with friend and saved all, then the coach decided to keep me in goal for this training session ..then forever. You are not good enough as a player, you are very slow, you are very fat, you are not talented those are the main reasons in why a person becomes handball GK.  Since I was 8 till 23 yrs old when I stopped playing  in  for work reasons I (we) never ever had a specialised GK coach!! ..even the special training to improve our skills was usually ruined by players when the coach is focusing how they are not scoring more than focus on our movements and style. Handball GKs usually memorised the players, those players I am playing with them in the training or even the opponents I see them 4-5 times every season, I perfectly memorise their movements and shots, but that shouldn’t be your normal style, you should have plans for unknown players, how to block the angles, how to synchronise with the block to get one side and to let them block the other side, when you block the close angle and leave the wide one and vice versa. When I was in England (which is not a strong or even average team), all GKs went to GK workshop with whom?? Omeyer ..the legend French handball GK .. I was listening to some advices which I never heard about in my life. Where was that when I was young and able to improve, unfortunately nothing.   Sorry for talking to much but I am really disappointed and I know    will never win a major title or medal without a good GK ..imagine if Egypt in Olympics or last 3 Wch has Landin or De Vargas or Wolff …at least would  be on the podium couple of times.

in 2021  team was very promising I was expecting to perform better in 2023 but they did almost similar (even the game was at home) ... but this year was the biggest shocking surprise for me, don't know why they are so slow and very heavy on the field. 

thriller and excitement night for all handball fans except  and   QF results yesterday:  VS   31-30, incredible game with both teams swap leading the results, both keepers were the reason of their team leading, some great saves from   GK Bartucz make  lead, then few brilliant sves from  GK Kuzmanovic bring them back on to draw then the lead. But the most interesting part when it was 26-30 for  with 5 minutes to go when  coach decided to put the 35 yrs old experienced GK Pesic into the field, he managed to save all shots on him in the last 5 min. with very good attack from  players and the cherry on the top when Sipic scored at 59:59 the winning goal and made the hall shaking and supporters going mad. very sorry for  who did a great effort and ended the night by a nightmare.     VS  34-33, do you think the previous game was the ultimate drama? ..no ..this was even more thriller,  was leading the game from beginning and the score was 18-14 in the first half, early in 2nd half the score difference became 5 for  but slowly slowly  managed to close the gap (thanks to attacking tactic playing with 7 players and an empty goal), last couple of minutes were amazing for handball fans, it reached 32-30 for  then  managed to draw and then 33-32 for  again, the Yaya scored when it was 59:57 (only 3 sec to final whistle) with very fast start from Karabatic they managed to score which has been rejected by  team but the video ref proved the ball was in at 59:59.97 ..only 0.03 sec destroyed the Egyptian dream in unbelievable Hitchcock scenario.   Lesson learned for  (I hope it's learned), you can't compete with below average GK ..and fair selection of players is a key of success.      today's matches:  VS  VS