The German men’s handball team will not attend Friday’s opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics because they play their first match against Sweden the following day. Captain Johannes Golla said it was a team decision not to be at the ceremony and to fully focus on the match against the four-time silver medallists from Scandinavia on Saturday. “It’s lovely for everyone to experience that. But we in the team have spoken out in favour of travelling to Paris not to be tourists and not to do Olympic tourism. Instead, we want to go as far as possible in sporting terms,” Golla said. Team-mate Renars U…