Today was my 2nd Olympic event - handball! I've never heard of handball until three weeks ago, but it's quite an interesting game. Handball is like a cross between soccer (or football for the UK) and basketball. Today's quarter-finals game had Hungary against Iceland. There were plenty of goals scored on both sides, and the most amazing one was with 15 seconds left, there was a penalty shot against Hungary and the goaltender blocked it, while the rest of the team were able to score to tie the game with 2 seconds left! It was quite thrilling to watch. It culminated in multiple 5-minute overtime periods, before Hungary took the match!
To find out more about handball, check out Wikipedia's description
here.
Here are a few pictures from the game, as well as a video of one of the plays.
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| Hungary in white, Iceland in red. |
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| The stadium was packed! |
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| It was just a sea of people outside of Olympic Park. |
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| ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture. |
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