Olympic drama: Norway has never been in baseball – Dagbladet.no

THE audience our favorites that disappeared in a German shenanigans in the semifinals of the European Championship for more than two months ago, is back tonight on a TV screen near you. One point against Croatia means Olympic games for handball guys.

And much more than that:

•• With the Norwegian men’s team in place in Rio, this exercise is one attraction richer.

So quickly has this young crew to quality coach Christian Berge evolved since the fourth place in the European Championship delivered winter perhaps the greatest Norwegian surprise.

WHILE this fight was standing tilted for Danish darlings at home in front of 12,000 singing countrymen in Herning, the choice was tricky for neutral lovers of stylish handball:

•• Who would it be bad to lose in this summer’s Olympics? Wonderful Mikkel Hansen or well playing Norway?

That says everything about handball boys’ level in this game, for the most part already said about 28-year-old Mikkel; sport wild hairy Danish brand with a look of stone age and primitive force that certainly deceiving.

Few are kløktigere and more finely tuned than Mikkel Hansen in this sport. He has torn at the absolute top level in almost ten years. Been named the world’s best players along the way, been both the top scorer and the first choice of the stars of the Champions League, won Spanish and French series with Barcelona and Paris Saint Germain and almost alone made Denmark a real medal contender in all championships.

but tonight it was not enough to overshadow Norway.

fOR where Mikkel Hansen sometimes did the most beautiful and smartest things with the ball, turned the Norwegian handball boys gathered up the absolute finest handball.

This fast, Norwegian progress comes with several individually very exciting players around our world to star Sander Sagosen, but most of all it comes with a rehearsed, quick attacking play you do not need to be compatriot to cheer. It holds to love good team sport.

THE is after all not so often we look so distinct international qualities in national teams ours. Joda; soccer girls have Olympic gold medals and handball girls have obviously dominated his sport for years; But what is now happening with the guys are still performing in a more even competitive environment. There have Norwegian team sport historically received their successes with more defensive and destructive tool.

Not a bad word about these, but it is thus unusually fun to see a Norwegian national men team play out a handball superpower that Denmark away from home.

AND not to forget how said Mikkel Hansen set the standard this evening.

On the ground surrounded gens last throw got Denmark timed. It was the traditional formation, you know, with six opponents between Mikkel run and Ole Erevik the Norwegian goal. So much like the wall of Belgians you may remember or have seen the iconic football image of the phenomenon Diego Maradona from Mexico World Cup in 1986.

To create goals in a such a free throw is called a “impossibility” but Mikkel Hansen made it. He does not become legendary by miracle as Maradona was both of their miracles and tricks on the football field. In international handball is like impossible because the sport after all is not big enough to create global legends.

But for those who appreciate sports of the highest quality is standard both seen and understood.

tHE makes one of the sporty set finest handball evenings even more impressive.

when international star Mikkel half an hour later in this Olympic qualification very last throw was trying to repeat the performance, the again impossible. Then they had the Norwegian handball guys managed to grow a little more, so it is possible for most people to realize that we have never been better in this sport.

Check yourself against Croatia 18:00 on TV3.