Handball-darling reveals the bizarre ritual: Played always in the same bra

It is widely known that many sports stars have the strangest rituals before, during and after matches.

It was no different for the former Danish the successful manager Rikke Hørlykke, which in many was a big profile on the defense can also touch, among other things, lifted the EM-gold in 2002.

In an interview with BT, she says, namely, that there should be some particular thing before the fighting to help the nervousness a little on the way.

In the course of his career, reached the today, 42-year-old playmaker to play 125 matches and scoring 234 goals. On klubplan she had the greatest success on a altvindende Slagelse team, with Anna Andersen in the lead, pulled both the Danish championship and Champions League titles in the country.

And since his debut on the Danish national team in the year 2000 and forward to karrierestoppet in 2006 has specially a thing followed her during the fighting, she says in the interview:

- I can even remember that I had some of those things, especially the periods where I was a bit unsure of what was going to happen, tells Rikke Hørlykke to BT and continues:

- So I had an idea, that if I made the same warm-up exercises, and tied the laces in the proper order, or had the same sports bra on, then it should all probably go.

Handball-darlingen goes on to explain that just the fixed rituals was to make her ready for battle.

- I didn't have to concentrate more on the things it was like in order, says Rikke Hørlykke.

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In 2007 Rikke Hørlykke into the hearts of the danes in the entertainment program 'dancing with the stars'. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix/Bjorn Stig Hansen
Turned into dansemus
Nine years after that, Rikke Hørlykke set career, she returned the cards back to make a comeback on the håndboldbanen in 2015. Here, she played one season for the then 2. divisionsklub Virum-Sorgenfri, who had to have help from the experienced landsholdskæmpe to move up in 1. division.

But already the year after she initially placed both the shoes and sports bra on the shelf, showed herself from her best side in the TV2-the 'dancing with the stars'.

Two weeks in a row was Rikke Hørlykke and Partner Mads Vad saved by viewers ' votes, after the jury had convicted them out of the eyes of wild hordes, that every Friday faithfully sitting built to the screen. But the semi-final was the terminus for the popular actress, has since lived a withdrawn role away the media spotlight.

Rikke Hørlykke form a few outside both håndboldbanen and the dance floor with the current coach of the women's håndboldlandshold, Klavs Bruun Jørgensen.

Danish well-known - 2. nov. 2007 - kl. 11:59 From actress to dansediva

TV - 9. nov. 2007 - kl. 21:36 Goodbye Rikke

TV - 29. oct. 2015. 16:54 hold onto the star reveals: Bagstiv to landsholdsdebut