Hungary can not host the 2024 European Women’s Handball Championship in December 2024, between Hungary, Austria, and Switzerland within the shape it was once firstly meant. The perfect answer was once lately being negotiated with the co-organizers, introduced Máté Kocsis, President of the Hungarian Handball Federation in an interview with Nemzeti Sport.
“Instead of the European Handball Championship, we have opted for the mass participation of young people in sport,” Máté Kocsis defined. He added that it isn’t proper that Hungary is spending billions of forints at the 2024 European Championship – the prices of which might be already being incurred – whilst 1000’s of kids and junior avid gamers are shedding their carrying alternatives for months on finish because of top power costs.
The European Handball Championship is a luxurious merchandise in those occasions, he stated, and
we need to bear in mind that after we bid for and received the comfortable to prepare the 2024 girls’s event, there was once no struggle, no sanctions, no power disaster and no monetary difficulties consequently.”
We needed to decide and as a substitute “chose mass youth sport,” stated Kocsis, including that to this finish, an settlement in concept have been reached with the federal government to make use of a part of the cash stored from the prices of the European Championship to enhance the operation of small golf equipment this yr and subsequent.
The European Handball Federation (EHF), then again, was once shocked to listen to from Hungarian federation president and the Hungarian govt on Thursday that the 2024 European Women’s Championship is being scrapped.
The European federation stated it was once mindful that the 3 organizers of the 2024 girls’s event, Hungary, Austria, and Switzerland, had lately exchanged knowledge at the topic. However, the EHF is not going to take any motion at the event till the Hungarian federation formally informs it of its intentions. At its assembly on January 28, the Executive Committee will speak about the group of the 2024 Women’s Championship and can supply an replace on traits.
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