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Olympics-Handball-France Strike Gold With Thrilling Win Over Denmark 

TOKYO (Reuters) - France turned into the primary nation to guarantee the Olympic men's handball title for a third time frame after an exciting 25-23 win more than 2016 gold medallists Denmark in the last on Saturday. 

After a frantic beginning to the match, France held Denmark's assault under wraps in the main half while scoring themselves to develop a 14-10 lead by the break. 

Denmark attempted to arrange a rebound and came extremely close to France late in the subsequent half yet needed to agree to silver. 

"The game was insane. Toward the end we thought perhaps we will lose this decoration so there was a great deal of pressing factor. It was extraordinary," France veteran Luka Karabatic said. 안전놀이터

The French additionally won gold at the 2008 and 2012 Games, yet returned home with silver in the wake of losing to Denmark in 2016. 

The Tokyo last had a comfortable look to it with a consolidated 15 players from the two sides getting back from the Rio title conflict however, not at all like that gathering five years prior, France didn't neglect the gold decoration from their grip this time. 

Glancing imperious in assault, oneself named 'Les Experts' had 11 distinct scorers in the game with Nedim Remili driving the way with five objectives and they finished off the success in spite of a late assembly by the title holders. 

"The most recent few years we were in every case short a game, so I think we had incomplete business," Karabatic said. "It was driving us to work more and give more and that is the way we succeeded." 

Denmark's charge was driven by the productive Mikkel Hansen, who scored nine objectives to complete as the Games' record-breaking top scorer with 61 - overshadowing South Korean Yoon Kyung-shin's 58 at Athens 2004 - yet an uncommon punishment miss in the 25th moment demonstrated exorbitant. 

Spain took bronze with a 33-31 success over Egypt at the Yoyogi National Stadium prior on Saturday. 

The sides faced a strained conflict that went into a grasping confrontation in the subsequent half, until Spain took a 30-28 lead with under five minutes to go and that demonstrated too huge a hole for the "Pharaohs" to connect. 

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Spain, who additionally won bronze at the 1996, 2000 and 2008 Games, showed character to hold out in the end minutes, said left back Antonio Garcia Robledo. 

"To take an Olympic award is so extraordinary. I can't clarify my sentiments at this moment," he told journalists.