WIt is probably the most-clicked page of this European Championship: The “Handball-World” portal updates the list of missing players every day; Injuries, Corona. It’s getting longer and longer – there have been more than 50 corona cases at the European Championships in Hungary and Slovakia, which have been running for eleven days. And not only the selection of the German Handball Federation (DHB) is badly affected with now 15 missing players. Christoph Steinert and Sebastian Firnhaber joined on Saturday, and this Monday Patrick Wiencek and Simon Ernst.
Montenegro, Croatia, the Serbs who have already left, Iceland, Poland and the Netherlands are also suffering. The hygiene concept of the European Handball Federation (EHF) did not offer sufficient protection. More and more, it is becoming clear how little the rules were initially observed or could be observed – large, mixed groups at the hotel breakfast, shared elevator rides, contacts with the families in the stands. There were a number of entry points for the virus, which is now a constant companion of this “Omicron-EM”.
