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Olympic Beach Volleyball Semi-Finals
Semi-finals
Talita-Renata BRA [6]
Walsh-May-Treanor USA [2]
Tian Jia-Wang CHN [1]
Xue-Zhang Xi CHN [4]
The hosts Chinese will have something to watch over the next few days in the sand. China is guaranteed a Beach Volleyball medal.
MEN’S
Semi-finals
Ricardo-Emanuel BRA [3]
Marcio Araujo-Fabio Luiz BRA [4]
Rogers-Dalhausser USA [2]
Geor-Gia GEO [15]
Ever heard of Georgia? The country is making headlines around the world, but [...]
Posted: August 18th, 2008 under Olympics.
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Olympic Indoor Quarterfinals Preview
MEN’S
With only 1 round robin match remaining, between Japan and USA, here is how the standings look heading into the playoff round.
Pool A
Rk
Country
Points
Matches
Points
Sets
Won
Lost
Won
Lost
Ratio
Won
Lost
Ratio
1
Italy
9
4
1
439
401
1.095
13
6
2.167
2
USA
8
4
385
320
1.203
12
4
3.000
3
Bulgaria
8
3
2
446
440
1.014
10
9
1.111
4
China
7
2
3
445
492
0.904
9
13
0.692
5
Venezuela
6
1
4
421
451
0.933
8
12
0.667
6
Japan
4
4
341
373
0.914
4
12
0.333
The USA should take down Japan and Win Pool A.
Pool B
Rk
Country
Points
Matches
Points
Sets
Won
Lost
Won
Lost
Ratio
Won
Lost
Ratio
1
Brazil
9
4
1
427
373
1.145
13
4
3.250
2
Russia
9
4
1
496
447
1.110
14
7
2.000
3
Poland
9
4
1
434
404
1.074
12
6
2.000
4
Serbia
7
2
3
440
439
1.002
9
10
0.900
5
Germany
6
1
4
418
440
0.950
6
12
0.500
6
Egypt
5
5
267
379
0.704
15
Assuming USA does win, the Quarterfinals should look like this:
USA vs. Serbia
Brazil vs. China
Russia vs. Bulgaria
Italy vs. Poland
WOMEN’S
Pool A
Rk
Country
Points
Matches
Points
Sets
Won
Lost
Won
Lost
Ratio
Won
Lost
Ratio
1
Cuba
10
5
426
371
1.148
15
3
5.000
2
USA
9
4
1
459
441
1.041
12
9
1.333
3
China
8
3
2
467
395
1.182
13
7
1.857
4
Japan
7
2
3
381
389
0.979
7
11
0.636
5
Poland
6
1
4
441
445
0.991
9
12
0.750
6
Venezuela
5
5
262
395
0.663
1
15
0.067
Pool B
Rk
Country
Points
Matches
Points
Sets
Won
Lost
Won
Lost
Ratio
Won
Lost
Ratio
1
Brazil
10
5
377
226
1.668
15
MAX
2
Italy
9
4
1
372
315
1.181
12
4
3.000
3
Russia
8
3
2
353
312
1.131
10
6
1.667
4
Serbia
7
2
3
343
349
0.983
6
10
0.600
5
Kazakhstan
6
1
4
323
404
0.800
4
13
0.308
6
Algeria
5
5
230
392
0.587
1
15
0.067
Brazil vs. Japan
USA [...]
Posted: August 18th, 2008 under Olympics.
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Olympic Indoor Update #2
MENS VOLLEYBALL
I am a little disappointed with Serbia’s loss to Russia, they seemed to have played better against Brazil, even though they loss 3 - 1. Ivan Miljkovic, who is usually dominates and scores the most points only had 15 points in 4 sets against Russia and and 17 against Brazil. Interesting note, Giba, [...]
Posted: August 13th, 2008 under Olympics.
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Olympic Volleyball - Indoor Update #1
The first day of men’s competition was August 10th. In Pool A Italy beat Japan (3-1). It took the USA five sets to beat Venezuela (3-2). In the final match of Pool A Bulgaria swept the host China (3-0).
In Pool B action Russia downed Serbia (3-1), Brazil swept Egypt (3-0)three straight and Poland - Germany [...]
Posted: August 10th, 2008 under Olympics.
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Olympic Volleyball - Beach Update #1
Beach Volleyball
Beach volleyball consists of a round robin with 6 pools of 4 teams then a play-offs for rankings. One big upset occurred on the first day of men’s action, the #2 ranked team Rogers - Dalhousier lost to the 23rd seeded Samoilovs-Plavins of Latvia.
Men’s Volleyball
Pool A is just finishing up as I write this [...]
Posted: August 10th, 2008 under Olympics.
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