The Slovenian Handball Team has high goals at the Rio Olympics. This is Slovenia’s third time playing handball at the Olympics. In 2000, it ended up eighth in Sydney, and it placed eleventh at the 2014 Athens Games. This time, the team has the potential to improve substantially on past results – if all the pieces come together. Foto: MMC RTV SLO/Aleš Vozel
The Slovenian Handball Team has high goals at the Rio Olympics. This is Slovenia’s third time playing handball at the Olympics. In 2000, it ended up eighth in Sydney, and it placed eleventh at the 2014 Athens Games. This time, the team has the potential to improve substantially on past results – if all the pieces come together. Foto: MMC RTV SLO/Aleš Vozel

The Slovenian team began their one-month “toil” on the Rogla plateau before their journey to Brazil, where they are headed on August 1. On Monday morning, the plateau was bathed in sunshine, but the temperature did not exceed 15 degrees Celsius because of the altitude – 1500 meters – and a light breeze. These are ideal climatic conditions for the first week of “sweating it out,” which will be devoted to conditional trading.

Little rest, but everything is as it should be
“Even though we didn’t get much rest, everything is as it should be. We still have a bit of time to recharge our batteries; that’s why we began training so early. It’s still too soon to talk about our goals because we have a month of hard work ahead of us. But we definitely didn’t come here to train hard for a month so we would then go to Brazil as tourists,” said Zorman, whose team – Kielce – won the Champions League and who isn’t afraid of setting high goals.