Handball international Judith van der Helm (21) combative after serious knee injury: ‘There is no point in crying in a corner’

‘Oh no, please not again…’ was what crossed Judith van der Helm’s mind when she went to the ground during a match for the Dutch team in April. Alarm bells immediately went off for the 21-year-old handball player, because she heard something ‘pop’ in her knee. She has now undergone surgery, faces months of rehabilitation and has to watch her teammates compete for the Danish national title, but she has also accepted her ‘fate’. “I have to, because there is no point in crying pitifully in a corner.”

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