The European Championship has just ended for the Bleues du hand. Throughout this competition, from Basel to Vienna, via Debrecen, an essential figure was missing. A charismatic man, with well-intentioned little phrases. A giant of the discipline, admired for more than twenty-five years. Olivier Krumbholz said goodbye this summer to the Pierre-Mauroy stadium in Lille. The coach took charge of the France team in 1998, then found it again, to his greatest happiness, in 2016, three years after a painful ousting.
Until the end of his great history with the Blues, the 66-year-old Messin won. World champion in December 2023, he had made the Paris Games his top priority. The competition of a lifetime, an ultimate goal. You had to see the technician all smiles, a bob on his head, in the Olympic cart alongside his players. He will have savored his chance to the end, made the most of every moment with them.
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A magnificent tribute to Pierre-Mauroy
The Blues paid him back, with this third medal in three Olympic Games. His fifteenth international charm. Despite this one-sided final lost to the Norwegians, thousands of supporters remained in Pierre-Mauroy. They waited for the end of a long protocol to pay a magnificent tribute to Olivier Krumbholz. To say goodbye to a giant.
