The former head coach of the women’s handball national team of Russia Yevgeni Trefilov in an interview with TASS news agency stated that Icelandic Thorir Hergeirsson, who had headed the women’s national team of Norway until recently, behaved dishonest by supporting the suspension of the Russian national team.
The day before Hergeirsson’s announcement appeared in the Norwegian media, calling the exclusion of the Russian athletes from participating in international tournaments fair. The specialist left the national team of Norway at the end of 2024 after working there for more than 20 years in total.
— He was only the second coach with Marit Breivik at first and has reaped the fruits of her foundation over the years. We should keep in mind that the beginning of Norwegian success was laid down by the great Igor Turchin, who went there to make a bypass surgery. He trained Marit Breivik — here are the roots. And he beats his chest, tears his shirt off and shouts: "It’s me". Or are the defeats from Russia at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo still like thorns?
Sport should be outside of politics, what they claim themselves. But at the same time they start to shy away from side to side, make sarcastic statements. It is dishonorable. We have to be objective: three years without international practice cannot fail to affect the play of the national team of Russia, it should be understood. We are forced to stew in our own juice now. But if we had played in the last World and European Cups, at the Olympic Games in Paris, we would have fought for the highest places. So do not judge and you will not be judged. Anyway, everything should be decided on the site — come, show the result and there will be no questions, — TASS quotes Trefilov’s words.
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