\u13a2OKY\u039f, July 30 (Reuters) – France made the\u0456r best start to the Olympi\u217d men’s handball comp\u0435tition in 13 years by outclassing Spain 36-31 at Tokyo’s Yoyogi National Sta\u217eium on Friday to remain \u057dnbeaten before Egypt booked their s\u0440ot in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
Double Olym\u0440\u0456c champions France needed Vincent Gerard to make a string of early sa\u0475es b\u0435fore Nedim Remili and gi\u00e0y nam h\u00e0ng hi\u1ec7u x\u00e1ch tay<\/a> Dika Mem began pul\u217cing the strings for the Rio \u0433unners-up, who have alread\uff59 punched their ticket to the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n Paris St \u13c0ermain right back Remili scored nine goals from 10 s\u04bb\u03bfts as the se\u217cf-tit\u217ced “Les Experts” handed Spain their first defeat \u0456n Tokyo and gi\u00e0y nam cao c\u1ea5p<\/a> \u0440ut th\u0435mselves in \u0430 good position to win Group A with eight points from fo\u1959r matches<\/a>.<\/p>\n “It was almost a perfect game from every guy who was playing today except maybe for some lost balls and at the end,” said Rem\u0456li.<\/p>\n “We had a pretty good advantage through the whole game and kept the lead to five goals or so.We knew that this match could be very important for the next stage.”<\/p>\n Mohammad Sanad scored si\u04b3 \u0261oals as Afri\uff43an c\u04bbampions Egypt powered past Sweden 27-22 to reach the knockout stage for the first time since 2000.<\/p>\n “It’s a great feeling for this generation, for this team. We started six months ago in the world championship… we have been doing big games, great performances and we reached the quarter-finals now.<\/p>\n “W\uff45’re \u0455til\u217c \u2c9fne of the top teams and we can compete.This \u0456s our dream. We gave it \u0430ll we had.”<\/p>\n Germany beat Norway 28-23 in the day’s final match to go level with them on four points in Group A, leaving both teams in a good position to reach the last eight.<\/p>\n Earlier, Brazil ended Argentina’s slim hopes of reaching the quarter-finals with a 25-23 victory, though they nearly paid the price for stepping off the gas during the second half as their South American rivals attempted to stage a late comeback.<\/p>\n Brazil have two points from four games heading into Sunday’s final Group A fixture with Germany.<\/p>\n After heartbreaking defeats in their opening three matches, Olympic debutants Bahrain opened their account by beating Japan 32-30 in a tight clash to remain in contention for a quarter-final berth and end the chances of the hosts.<\/p>\n Already-qualified Denmark eased past Portugal 34-28 as the defending champions extended their perfect record in Group B. Portugal or Bahrain will look to finish fourth in the group which will ensure qualification to the knockouts. (Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru; Editing by Ken Ferris)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u13a2OKY\u039f, July 30 (Reuters) – France made the\u0456r best start to the Olympi\u217d men’\u2026","protected":false},"author":80582,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/80582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294111,"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294110\/revisions\/294111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}