26. 1. 2021
Že na začetku naj poudarimo, da Rokometna zveza Slovenije
izraža hvaležnost IHF in lokalnemu organizacijskemu odboru za organizacijo
svetovnega prvenstva v zelo težki in zahtevni situaciji, ki jo je povzročila
pandemija virusa CORONA. Dobro se zavedamo posebnosti in ogromnih težav, ki jih
povzroča pandemija COVID, ki je vsem prinesla veliko izzivov, ki vplivajo in
otežuje organizacijo takega dogodka na tej ravni.
V naši reprezentanci nikoli nismo iskali izgovorov. Kot
vedno prevzamemo vso odgovornost za vsak projekt. Gotovo bi lahko nekatere
stvari naredili drugače, tudi bolje, a tokrat smo se čez noč znašli v zelo
težki situaciji, ki je še nismo doživeli. Nenadoma je 12 naših igralcev imelo
zdravstvene težave in trije niso mogli tekmovati. Uspešnost ostalih 9 je bila
zagotovo nižja kot v običajnih okoliščinah.
Gotovo je za razumeti, da smo v takšnih razmerah poskušali
analizirati razloge za zdravstvene težave, ki so lahko posledica številnih
različnih dejavnikov. Prvi dejavnik, o katerem smo razmišljali, je bila hrana
in vsi vemo, da se dejavniki in simptomi bolezni lahko razlikujejo glede na
imunski sistem vsakega posameznika. Zelo jasno bi poudarili, da nikoli nismo
trdili, da je bila situacija, ki se je zgodila, namerno izzvana, vendar se ne
moremo izogniti dejstvu, da je prišlo do bolezni nekaterih igralcev. Ker so vse
ekipe v hotelu imele enake pogoje, ki so bili v hotelu Marriott primerni, in se
niso soočali s toliko zdravstvenimi težavami, je izredno težko reči, kaj se je
v resnici zgodilo. Prav tako bi radi poudarili, da je naša ekipa uporabljala
samo hrano iz hotelskega bifeja in iz hotelske sobne postrežbe (pice itd.).
Pili so le ustekleničeno vodo. Zato si želimo, da situacijo skupaj z IHF
analiziramo in razjasnimo, da bi se izboljšali in se ji izognili v prihodnjih
dogodkih.
Zelo nam je žal, da se je takšna situacija zgodila med
vrhunskim dogodkom, pa tudi v izjemno zahtevni in specifični situaciji, ki jo
je povzročila pandemija. Organizacija vseh prihodnjih dogodkov je ključnega
pomena za nadaljnji razvoj našega športa in vse vključene zainteresirane strani
bi morale sodelovati pri njegovem izboljšanju.
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At the very beginning let us
emphasize, that the Handball Federation of Slovenia is expressing the
gratitude and appreciation to the IHF and the Local Organising Committee
for organizing the World championship in a very upredictable and challenging
situation, caused by the CORONA virus pandemic. We are very well aware of the
specifics and the huge difficulties caused by the COVID pandemic, which
brought a lot of challenges to all of us, and which affects and complicates the
organization of such an event at this level.
We have never looked for excuses
in our national team. As always, we take the whole responsibility for every
project. We could have certainly done some things differently, also better, but
this time we found ourselves overnight in a very difficult situation that we
had never experienced before. Suddenly, 12 of our players got medical related
problems, and 3 of them were unable to compete. The other 9's performance has
surely been lower than in normal circumstances.
You can surely understand that in
such a situation, we were trying to analyze the reasons of the medical
problems, and those could be the result of many different factors. The first
factor we were thinking about, was the food, and we all know the factors and
illness symphtoms can vary from each individual's immune system. We would like
to emphasize very clearly, that we have never claimed that the situation that
happened, has been provoked intentionally, however we can not avoid the fact
that the illness of some players occured. Since all the teams in the hotel have
had the same conditions, which were very appropriate at the Marriott
hotel, and they haven't been facing so many medical problems, it is
extremely difficult to say what really happened. Also, we would like to
emphasize that our team has been only using the food from the hotel buffet and
from the hotel room-service (pizzas, etc.). Also, they were drinking only
bottled water. Therefore, we strongly suggest to jointly analyze and
clarify the situation, in order to improve and to avoid it during the future
events.
We are very sorry that such a
situation happened during our top event, which is otherwise well organized, and
also, in an extremely challenging and specific situation caused by the pandemic
. The organization of all the future events are crucial for furter
development of our sport, and all the stakeholders involved should work
together to improve it .