Men's Handball Tournament at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[Belle 975]

Not impressed by Sweden after the first game! 

[thepharoah 2,405]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CRtsg8mgiYb/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

 

best goal today 

[MHSN 3,619]

8 hours ago, LDOG said:

Bahrain also beat our team by 5 in a friendly. Did they get any "reinforcements"? I find this sudden rise in level from WCh hard to believe...

nope, hard to believe since they have naturalized athletes in other sports but in Handball they are all really from Bahrain.

 

and Bahrain's population is smaller than my town maybe we should learn few things from their handball program.

 

btw as far as I know most of them play for the same club. so they are more "prepared" they also have a good coach

[heywoodu 15,141]

2 minutes ago, MHSN said:

nope, hard to believe since they have naturalized athletes in other sports but in Handball they are all really from Bahrain.

 

and Bahrain's population is smaller than my town maybe we should learn few things from their handball program.

 

btw as far as I know most of them play for the same club. so they are more "prepared" they also have a good coach

In that case, that is actually a very impressive feat for a small place like Bahrain! Not like Qatar, when they bought half the handball world a few years ago (?), what Bahrain does seems genuinely good.

[MHSN 3,619]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

In that case, that is actually a very impressive feat for a small place like Bahrain! Not like Qatar, when they bought half the handball world a few years ago (?), what Bahrain does seems genuinely good.

yeah indeed and I had to say that to like million people here that this Bahrain handball team is made up homegrown players. whenever some of our rich  Arab neighbors achieve something in sports people here by default assume they are using naturalized athletes. (while for example KSA never do that)

 

you may find this interesting, this is the turning point of Bahrain's handball, when they qualified for the World Champs for the first time with this crazy goal in the last second and they never stopped to improve from there

 

[thepharoah 2,405]

Better sweet revenge for Egypt against Sweden we are in quarterfinals 

[Belle 975]

Sweden

[thepharoah 2,405]

Bahrain qualifies to Quarters WOW, Portugal lost to Japan 31-30 

[hoversaBR 441]

Well, I didn't expect anything from Brazil anyway, but the team looked decent after all. 

 

Maybe Paris will have a different story? I can't wait.

[Gianlu33 4,568]

France scores 42 goals against Bahrain: never a squad scores so many goal in the knockout stage of the men's Olympic tournament.