France national Olympic Handball team and Olympic Handball Tickets

France national Olympic Handball team is the Olympic Handball team, supervised by the French Handball Federation that represents France in the international matches. They are the current reigning European Champions and Olympic Champions as well as double defending World Champions.

France won the world title again in the 2001 World Championship organized in France. During both their quarterfinal and final, against Germany and Sweden respectively, they were one goal behind until a few seconds before the end of the game, but managed to score a late goal and finally win in overtime with a three goal margin. This great strength of character was cause for their new nickname: les Costauds the strong, or the tough. Five members of les Costauds had already been world champions in 1995 with les Barjots: Jackson Richardson, Gregory Anquetil, Patrick Cazal, and the goalkeepers Bruno Martini and Christian Gaudin. The team finished third in the 2003 World Championship. The teamed at finished 5th in the Olympics 2004. Although they won their five games of the preliminary round, the team went down to an ageing Russian team led by 42 year old goalkeeper Andrey Lavrov in the quarterfinals 24-26.

In the 2005 World Championship, France finished third again. This was the last international competition played by Jackson Richardson, a veteran from the first team les Bronzes. The retirement of their star meant for the French team the final transition between the early successes and the new generation of players. In 2006 France won for the first time the European Championship, a competition in which they had never managed to win a medal until then. In the final they overwhelmed Spain, the reigning world champions 31-23, against whom they had lost the opening match in the preliminary round. In 2008, France finished third in the European Championship. They were undefeated until the semifinal, which they lost to Croatia. France won the gold medal in the Beijing Olympics. The French players elected to call themselves Les Experts, which is the French title for the TV show CSI in France. The team won the gold medal in the 2008 Olympic Handball tournament in Beijing, defeating underdogs Iceland in the final 28-23. Thierry Omeyer, Daniel Narcisse and Bertrand Gille were voted into the tournament's All Star team.

France won the world title again in 2009 at the 2009 World Championship, hosted by Croatia, against the organizing country, and the European title in 2010 in Austria. They became the first men's team to hold the Olympic title, the World title and a continental title simultaneously. Denmark women's national Olympic Handball team held all three titles in 1997. They are also the third team to have won all three titles ever, the other two being Germany and Russia. Finally, it has successfully held its title at the 2011 World Championship against Denmark, winning 37-35 after extra time. This victory means they are automatically qualified for the 2012 Olympics in London.

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