Men's Handball Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[EselTheDonkey 824]

18 minutes ago, NaBUru38 said:

And in the qualifiers, 6 of the 12 teams were European.

 

Yeah, because they were actually the best ranked teams at the World Championships, so there's a reason for it.

[LDOG 2,418]

Yeah, I was going to say that. On paper Europe has only one quota, like anyone else.

 

 

Personally I think 7 EU + 5 rest of the world is a perfect balance, for this sport.

[NaBUru38 208]

The Olympic qualifiers should have 1-2 teams from each continent.

[NikolaB 432]

1 hour ago, NaBUru38 said:

The Olympic qualifiers should have 1-2 teams from each continent.

For me only the best teams should go to Olympics, no matther where they are from

[NaBUru38 208]

Whereas I think that the Olympics should have adequate representation of all continents.

[Olympian1010 7,976]

6 minutes ago, NaBUru38 said:

Whereas I think that the Olympics should have adequate representation of all continents.

Which Handball does. There’s at least one team from each of the Olympic regions.

[JoshMartini007 2,537]

Besides basketball (which only gives two spots to Europe and Pan America) and football (which only does continental qualifiers) none of the other team sports gives more than 1 continental spot to each continent. Other than guaranteeing Europe more quotas, handball doesn't strike as a sport that needs to do that.

 

The issue is handball is very Euro-centric which is why you see more European teams at the Olympics, when was the last time more than two non-European nations finished in the top 10 at the world championships?

[NearPup 3,051]

So I checked and 2021 is by far the closest we've ever been to having three non-European teams in the men's handball world championship. Argentina ruined it by finishing 11th.

[NaBUru38 208]

Rugby sevens gives spots to 6 continents: Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and Oceania.

 

Basketball and field hockey give spots to 5 continents: Africa, Asia, Americas, Europe and Oceania.

 

Indoor volleyball also gives spots to 5 continents: Africa, Asia, North and South America, and Europe.

 

Handball only gives spots to 4 continents: Africa, Asia, Americas and Europe.

[NaBUru38 208]

At the 2012 Olympics, the handball tournaments had only 3 non-European teams. That's hardly adequate representation in my opinion.