Partayin' down with the Norwegian women's handball team
Posted Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 9:20 am
"'Handball girls' party all night":
Norway's national handball team, and thousands of their fans, were ecstatic after beating Denmark to win the European championship on Sunday. Their victory followed Saturday's decisive 44-29 win over the Hungarian national team, which was on home turf at the championships in Budapest.
The champagne flowed along with tears of joy when the winning female athletes, known collectively simply as the "handball girls" (hlndballjentene), gathered for their victory party at a hotel in Budapest.
..."We're good in handball but quite good at partying also," said team captain Gro Hammerseng, as she helped teammates tackle a double-magnum bottle of bubbly...