Olympics: Handball Pictures

Workers construct the apparatus podium inside the National Indoor Stadium, the venue for artistic gymnastics, trampoline and handball, at the Olympic Green as preparations continue for the Olympic Games in Beijing, July 30, 2008. REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar (CHINA) (BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008 PREVIEW)

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A paramilitary policeman guards in front of the National Indoor Stadium, the venue for artistic gymnastics, trampoline and handball, at the Olympic Green as preparations continue for the Olympic Games in Beijing, July 30, 2008. REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar (CHINA) (BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008 PREVIEW)

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Workers construct the apparatus podium inside the National Indoor Stadium, the venue for artistic gymnastics, trampoline and handball, at the Olympic Green as preparations continue for the Olympic Games in Beijing, July 30, 2008. REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar (CHINA) (BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008 PREVIEW)

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A balance beam is seen inside the National Indoor Stadium, the venue for artistic gymnastics, trampoline and handball, at the Olympic Green as preparations continue for the Olympic Games in Beijing, July 30, 2008. REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar (CHINA) (BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008 PREVIEW)

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Workers construct the apparatus podium inside the National Indoor Stadium, the venue for artistic gymnastics, trampoline and handball, at the Olympic Green as preparations continue for the Olympic Games in Beijing, July 30, 2008. REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar (CHINA) (BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008 PREVIEW)

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A paramilitary policeman guards in front of the National Indoor Stadium, the venue for artistic gymnastics, trampoline and handball, at the Olympic Green as preparations continue for the Olympic Games in Beijing, July 30, 2008. REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar (CHINA) (BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008 PREVIEW)

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An unidentified handballer jumps with to shoot in the Picornell Olympic swimming pool during the Eurogames 2008 in Bearcelona on July 26, 2008. More than 5,000 athletes, gay and straight, from across Europe converged on Barcelona for the Eurogames which got underway on July 24, 2008 in the Spanish port city, organisers said. AFP PHOTO / JOSEP LAGO (Photo credit should read JOSEP LAGO/AFP/Getty Images)

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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY FARHAD POULADIIranian Discus thrower, Ehsan Hadadi who is one of Iran's hopes for the gold medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics is seen resting during a training session at Tehran's Azadi stadium on 08 July 2008. Twelve years ago, an Iranian schoolboy Hadadi took aim at goal in a school handball match and threw the ball with such power it broke the goalpost. His stunned sports teacher, Mr Garshasbi, was suitably impressed. "You must take part in a throwing sport," he advised. AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)

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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY FARHAD POULADIIranian Discus thrower Ehsan Hadadi who is one of Iran's hopes for the gold medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics is seen during a training session at Tehran's Azadi stadium on 08 July 2008. Twelve years ago, an Iranian schoolboy Hadadi took aim at goal in a school handball match and threw the ball with such power it broke the goalpost. His stunned sports teacher, Mr Garshasbi, was suitably impressed. "You must take part in a throwing sport," he advised. AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)

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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY FARHAD POULADIIranian Discus thrower, Ehsan Hadadi who is one of Iran's hopes for the gold medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics is seen resting during a training session at Tehran's Azadi stadium on 08 July 2008. Twelve years ago, an Iranian schoolboy Hadadi took aim at goal in a school handball match and threw the ball with such power it broke the goalpost. His stunned sports teacher, Mr Garshasbi, was suitably impressed. "You must take part in a throwing sport," he advised. AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)

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