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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - - Like a lost soul, Elisabeth Hammerstad finds a basic nursery hose to wash off the sand and douse herself in a touch of help from the rankling Alabama heat.

The lighter looking Hammerstad, her hair tied back in a French twist, has recently helped Norway to a simple triumph over Australia.

In ocean side handball, everything being equal.

Hammerstad sees the same old thing about her Arctic country hanging out in a dark game that would appear to be the most appropriate to warm-climate countries.

"We have summer in Norway as well," she said with a wry grin.

Another thing: What is ocean side handball?

Those kind of questions come up habitually at The World Games, a kind of Island of Misfit Toys for a captivating exhibit of sports that are outwardly searching in at the Olympics, jealously expecting their opportunity to sometime radiate on the greatest stage.

From air sports (dropping and drone dashing) to wushu (a Chinese military craftsmanship) — and essentially in the middle between — this 11-day, Olympic-style contest is being facilitated by a U.S. City for just the subsequent time in its four-very long term presence.

Birmingham appears to be an inquisitive decision for a contest that was deferred a year by the COVID-19 pandemic, since its donning history to a great extent starts and finishes with school football and a wide exhibit of flopped master groups.

Yet, for a city attempting to exhibit how far it's come from a terrible job in the American social liberties development, this is maybe the ideal occasion to show its capacity to bear a wide assortment of sports that most local people have never seen — or even get it.

Take ocean side handball, which highlights players throwing themselves into a wide range of whirling, winding bendings to go for objectives that are worth two focuses.

It was being hung on two land-locked courts loaded up with sand in the shadow of Sloss Furnaces, a leftover of the long-failed to remember period when this was the Steel City of the South.

Then, at that point, there's korfball, which can best be depicted as b-ball without all the spilling and dunking, played on an indoor court with a couple of circles that have neither a backboard nor a net.

In the event that you think Stephen Curry has it extreme from past the 3-point stripe, you should perceive that it is so difficult to wreck one in korfball.

"It is extreme," Belgium player Julie Caluwe said. "It's 3 1/2 meters (around 11 1/2 feet) high. You need to move from your rivals in light of the fact that any other way you can't shoot. Furthermore, there is no backboard for an objective. So you need to shoot it right."

Korfball truly stands apart when you notice the cosmetics of the groups — four men and four ladies on every crew, all on the court simultaneously. The game's remote chance any expectations of getting in the Olympics are to a great extent founded on its comprehensive nature.

"We are the main (group activity) with young men and young ladies, so it would be exceptionally great assuming that it's in the Olympics," Caluwe said. "The thought behind the Olympics is additionally what korfball is about."

Thomas Bach, leader of the International Olympic Committee, came by the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Center to watch a korfball match-up among Belgium and his local Germany.

"It shows the variety of sports," Bach said, standing simply off the court. "You can encounter sports which are not generally at the forefront of everyone's thoughts. Yet, you see similar energy of the competitors, very much like different games on the Olympic program. "

In a bid to contact a more youthful, cooler crowd, the Olympics have taken out a few World Games occasions throughout the long term, including badminton, rugby sevens, taekwondo, trampoline and marathon.