Germany beat France 35-34 in their handball quarter-final, with Nikola Karabatic, the three-time gold medallist, left to rue ‘a tough moment for us’
Nikola Karabatic looked around, up to the gods and to either side. More than 26,500 people were on their feet, celebrating him unreservedly and chanting his name, the noise echoing around this repurposed football stadium as it had all afternoon.
Even so, it was an astonishing blunder that left Dika Mem, who had been virtually faultless, pounced on by Renars Uscins to begin a move the same player emphatically finished. Heads sunk into hands around all three of the deep, vertiginous stands in use. The clock showed 60 minutes. “This could be the last one,” he had whispered to his brother, Luka, during a group‑stage meeting with Hungary when France dragged themselves out of a hole. If this Hail Mary did not work, a shuddering end really would be the outcome now.
“I never wanted to look back because I always wanted to look forward, but now it’s the end of my first life so tomorrow I’ll reflect on that and also enjoy the ride I’ve had.”What a journey it has been. Take a survey of posters in the Paris metro and you will soon land upon Karabatic’s visage. Born in Serbia to a handball-playing father and raised in France since he was three and a half, he ended up reshaping a sport in his own image.
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