Archive for August, 2008

USA dominates Olympic Volleyball

Thursday, August 28, 2008 22:00 No Comments

The USA stamped it’s authority on the Beijing Olympics as the current world power in Volleyball. For the first time in twenty years, they took out the gold medal in the Men’s indoor voleyball, and took out the silver medal in the Women’s indoor volleyball, losing to Brazil in the final 3 – 1.
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Olympic beach volleyball – getting serious

Friday, August 15, 2008 13:51 No Comments

Down to the final 16 teams, the only surprise, and a good one for the locals here, is that there are two Austrian teams still in contention. Gosch-Horst AUT [24] squeaked through the lucky losers with a convincing win over Heyer-Heuscher SUI [11], and Doppler-Gartmayer AUT [16] are on fire with three wins and a [...]

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Pool B looking interesting.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 13:55 No Comments

This looks like it could be an important pool.
Rogers-Dalhausser USA [2] beat Heyer-Heuscher SUI [11] 2-0 (21-15, 21-10).
Heyer-Heuscher SUI [11] beat Conde-Baracetti ARG [14] 2-0 (21-13, 21-17)
Conde-Baracetti ARG [14] beat Samoilovs-Plavins LAT [23] 2-0 (23-21, 21-19)
and then…
Samoilovs-Plavins LAT [23] beat Rogers-Dalhausser USA [2] 2-0 (19-21, 18-21)
I have a bad feeling for our Swiss friends here. [...]

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