The Olympics should have started this week, but we'll keep the flame alive by reliving one of the greatest handball finals in Athens 2004 with Danish gold medallist Trine Nielsen.

We also discuss the recent World Handball Player of the Year awards and the new European Cup formats.

Björn Pazen speaks to us about the brilliant report he has just released, detailing the views of 39 top handball coaches on the much-maligned 7 vs 6 rule. We get into what the coaches said and what should be done about it.

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We reflect on the new EHF Champions League format and who made the cut. Magda Pluszewska speaks to us about Kielce's money troubles (21:40 min) Laura Agena and Nagore Odriozola from https://www.playmakerwh.com/ talk everything women's handball from Nora Mørk's big move to the EHF EURO 2020 draw (35:50)

On a side note, we just launched our own Ko-Fi page, so if you like what we do, why not support us with a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/handballhour

25 years on from France's first World Championship title, we look back at the story of 'Les Barjots' - the party-loving gang who took the handball world by storm!

Bruno Martini, France's goalkeeper at the time and now general manager of PSG, and French journalist Kevin Domas speak to us about the rise of French handball and the origin story of one of handball's international superpowers.

On a side note, we just launched our own Ko-Fi page, in case any of you lovely listeners would like to support us with a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/handballhour

Double interview in this episode, beginning with Siófok KC coach Bent Dahl discussing the disappointing end to the Hungarian season and life in lockdown for a coach.

Filip Mishov joins us from Skopje to discuss Vardar's latest reversal of fortune and an emerging Macedonian rival in Eurofarm Pelister.

Despite the coronavirus crisis, there's no shortage of handball chat

• We reflect on what you, the fans, decided how this season's VELUX EHF Champions League would have turned out
• Round-up the comings and goings of the top clubs
• Bring you the best of our chat with Veszprém's Dragan Gajic
• Best of the rest of handball's headlines

We discuss the VELUX EHF FINAL4 moving to Christmas, Siofok's sorrow in Hungary and the latest wave of handball hype in the USA.

We're also excited to announce our first Virtual Pub Quiz on Wednesday 22 April at 21:00 CET. Grab a drink, a pen and paper and enjoy it here: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1rmxPAQymPdKN

ehfTV commentator and friend of the podcast Tom O'Brannagain joined us to watch his very first final as a commentator, Ciudad Real (ESP) vs THW Kiel (GER) in the EHF Champions League Final 2nd Leg in 2009.

You can watch the match with our commentary over it on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn663DbEvTg from 21:00 CET on Thursday.

With handball well and truly in lockdown, we cast our eye over what those in charge have decided to do, turn momentarily to Belarus for our fix of live action and think about what the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics for one year means for some teams' chances.

We go back in time to 2007 and the infamous World Championship semi-final between Germany and France. We're commentating on the entire match, which you can watch along with us on https://youtu.be/Dw4t0v07pfg.

We start the video (00:00) at 2:24 The second half (38:20) begins at 41:56 Extra-time (1:16:00) begins at 1:19:49