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USA dominates Olympic Volleyball

Tristo — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:00:30 +0000

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.

On the beach, they took out both Gold medals. In the men’s Rogers-Dalhausser USA beat Marcio Araujo-Fabio Luiz BRA 2-1 (23-21, 17-21, 15-4) with Ricardo-Emanuel taking out the bronze. (Ricardo’s third consecutive olympic medal.)

In the women’s tournament Walsh-May-Treanor USA won the final, defeating Tian Jia-Wang CHN in two sets (18-21, 18-21). The Chinese also took out the bronze.

Olympic beach volleyball – getting serious

Tristo — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:51:23 +0000

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 quarter final against Geor-Gia GEO [15] which I think is about as good as it could get for them.

I will be very interested to see Nummerdor-Schuil NED [5] vs Schacht-Slack AUS [10]. The is the first real test for Josh and Shachty, and from what I hear from sources on the ground, the Dutch guys are on fire. Bwin has the odds at 2.95 for Australia Vs 1.35 for NED, so the Dutch are clear favourites.