Women's handball

@MartinII: Please accept my sincere apology and be assured that I forever will remember that you are an old gentleman – perhaps even an old school gentleman?
I am so sorry for the mistake but I beg you to understand that especially in languages that are not my mother tongue is it difficult for me to be fully updated on what words no longer are comme il faut.
It already is difficult enough in my own language when words, that a lady and a nice girl at best did not know and certainly never used when I grew up, now suddenly are commonly used even on children's TV.
And when the Latin word for black now suddenly is a four-letter word. In the early medieval times it repressed the Danish word “blaamand” (= blue man) and at least in the seventies, when I attended business school, it was still commonly used also in textbooks and not at all derogatory but our Danish word for black was considered improper to use about humans. Now the good old Latin word is no longer political correct but I have no idea what word to use instead.
I always do my best to be polite at least on the surface and especially when I deliberately aim at offending somebody; it is so much more effectual and also satisfying when the sarcasm make the offence a product of their own interpretation of my words.

@karinaal: Thank you for your very kind reply. There was no need to apologise - I'm afraid my pedantry was, as usual, getting the better of me early this morning. And yes, I must accept the description "old school"!

And now I have watched the youtube film of the handball game between Russia and Korea. Handball is a very interesting game. But the bottoms! Another SW friend reminded me recently that the female bottom might have been designed with spanking in mind. The Russian handball team, and their white shorts, seem to have been hand-picked to illustrate that idea!

I told you that women's handball is interesting to watch.
One of the things that makes December hectic for me and other Danes is that every year we in the beginning of December have two weeks with either the European Championship or the World Championship for women.
And then again every year in January it is the men's turn and for two weeks we again are glued to the TV screen.
You can find lots of women's handball on Youtube and I strongly recommend that you look up the Olympich finals from Los Angeles, Sydney and Athen when the Danish team won the gold - in Los Angeles and Athen in extremely exciting matches against Korea and in Sidney against Hungary.
Our Crown Prince was in Sidney to watch our handball women and other Danish athletes and then he in a bar met a lady who is now our Crown Princess.
That women's bottoms fascinate and attract men is nothing new and you have to admit that our bottoms are expressive, which is not strange when you think of it as simple biology. Almost all female mammals use the bottom to attarct the males and to signalise that they are in season and ready to be mounted. Why should we humans be different in this?

@MartinII: Thank you, Martin.
I played a little handball as teen but the game has changed a lot since then and has become much faster and harder just as also the technical level has increased considerably. Let me just say that in the sixties and seventies it still was normal that there were only two to six goals scored in a women's handball match but now it is almost always more than 30 and it is not unusual that it is between 40 and 60.
The match we won today was special to us because Roumainia in 2010 beat us in the semifinal and last year they prevented us from qualifying for the Olympic tournament.
The semifinal that we on Friday will play against the Netherlands will also be special - among other things because they have a Danish (female) coach.

Viva Denmark! Good luck for the semifinals!!!! :-)

@twistermind: Thank you, I am sure that our team will do its best.

@karinaal: That was a bit of an anti climax, agreed.

But Sunday we will beat the French and take the bronze medals. We have to be satisfied with that for the moment but Klavs Bruun Jørgensen has created a great team and I am looking forward to see how well they will perform the next many years.

@karinaal: Bronze would still be way above everyone´s expectations in advance, and I agree that this team will be interesting to follow in the years to come.

I am sorry but I have no idea where you can watch it when you are in America but it is not over yet, the semifinals and the final are not played before the weekend and which teams will appear in them is not yet decided so there is still a lot to watch.
Try searching the Internet and try also this site:
http://swe2016.ehf-euro.com/home/
there are lots of articles and pictures and at least some videos from the tournament.

Thank you very much for the link. I don't think they'll show this on our television (unfortunately) but the link is very helpful .

@Elisbch: Good if the link could help you.
Next year in December it is the World Championship that is played. I do not know which country will represent the North American continent, usually it has been Canada and if that also next year is the case it probably will not help you but if it is USA then I guess that there is a chance that a little handball will be shown on American TV.
Last time I saw a national team from USA play was at the Olypig Games in Los Angelses. It was a national team created especially for the occasion and I remember that the players had been recruited from the ranks of basketball players. The team naturally did not stand a chance against European teams and the Korean team but the players were good and at least a couple of them came here to Denmark and played as professional players for some years.
There is no doubt that if USA wanted it they could develop a strong and successful national team. For many years Brazil although being the dominant handball nation in South America never got further at the World Championships than to the initial round but in 2013 Brazil as the first not European nation became World Champions. They had worked hard and determined on making handball known and popular and on creating a very good natonal team.
If USA do the same there is a chance that you one day will be able to watch handball in USA as we do it here in Europe.