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Are you an American who enjoys rooting for the home team? Handball is not for you if that's the case. 

As David Wharton of the Los Angeles Times pointed out, the United States has never medaled in this event. The U.S. didn't even qualify in handball for the 2016 Summer Olympics. 

First-time viewers will be confused watching handball. There's no way around that. Imagine indoor soccer and basketball produced a baby, and then the baby grew up and married an offspring of water polo and lacrosse. Those two lovebirds came together to give us handball. 

Elite handball players contort their bodies, almost unnaturally, at times, in attempts to score goals. As Stephen Douglas of TheBigLead.com described following one match at the 2016 Games, one such player scored what could have been the goal of the tournament. That tally was disallowed, however, because he violated a rule.