Morten Stig Christensen is a former Danish

Denmark

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 handball

Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

 player

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In 1976 he was a squad member of the Danish team which finished eighth in the Olympic tournament

Handball at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Handball at the 1976 Summer Olympics featured competition for men and women.On July 26, a Croatian nationalist ran onto the field of play during the men's match between SFR Yugoslavia and West Germany and burned the Yugoslav flag.-Medal summary:...

. He was a reserve player and did not play in a match.

Four years later he finished ninth with the Danish team in the 1980 Olympic tournament

Handball at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Handball at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by 2 events - a men's and a women's team competitions. They were held in two venues: in the Sokolniki Sports Palace and in the Dynamo Sports Palace at Khimki-Khovrino...

. He played four matches and scored two goals.

In 1984 he was part of the Danish team which finished fourth in the Olympic tournament

Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics featured competition for men and women. Due to the USSR-led boycott some strong handball nations from Eastern Bloc did not compete; this gave opportunity to the Yugoslav team to take both gold medals.-Medal summary:...

. He played all six matches and scored 14 goals.

Beside his handball career

Career

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 he did some acting

Acting

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 and a lot of left-wing political

Politics

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 work. Since then he has become more moderate

Moderate

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Currently Morten Stig Christensen works in the Danish TV channel TV 2

TV 2 (Denmark)

TV 2 is a publicly owned television station in Denmark based in Odense. The station began broadcasting on 1 October 1988, thereby ending the television monopoly previously exercised by the Danmarks Radio ....

 presenting program

Television program

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s, most commonly about sport

Sport

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s. He is the boss in TV 2 Sporten (the sports section on TV 2).