1996 Olympics

1996 Olympic final Italy - The Netherlands

(I guess this match deserves a seperate thread)

For the 4th consecutive time, both teams stand eye to eye in a major event's final (EC93, WC94, EC95).
Until that moment, the Italians always won.

Both teams met a few weeks earlier in Rotterdam in the world league final where the Dutch finally managed to win in a tough 5 setter.
The Italians had their revenge in the Olympic preliminary round and swept the Dutch in a clear 3-0 victory (8-15,8-15,13-15).

Throughout the tournament, both teams dominate all other participants on their road to the final to meet once again.
(tournament results: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/O…omerspelen_1996/Volleybal)

In the Netherlands, this game was elected as sports event of the century.

set 1: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V6M1YIXH
set 2: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XA5PE02Z
set 3: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CNXPI95G
set 4: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZZ582FK1
set 5: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F5WM4HCN

p.s.1: Wonder how these teams would compete against, say, the current Brazilian team.
p.s.2: during the 1996 Olympics, a number of events was broadcasted in 2 formats simultaneously: the traditional 4/3 TV-format and the 16/9 format.
I taped this game from a French broadcaster that was distributing the 16/9-format footage.
(Unfortunately, the French commentator gets on your nerves after a while)

Quote from "mazia"

do you have any match with Poland? plz say you have

Unfortunately not, sorry.
I'm currently struggling a little bit with my VCR-to-PC infrastructure.
Hope to resolve this soon and post some more 1996 Atlanta matches (expect to see teams from USA, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Brazil and of course Dutch and Italian Teams)

Quote from "vblover"

Thanks Richard.

It's an amazing game and I still miss Bass V.d. Goor.

Do you have the WL 96 final game or more dutch games from OG 96?

Thanks in advance.

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I have parts of that WL final. I'll make sure to upload that one in a while.
(I'll have to test your patience though - cfr. infrastructure pains mentioned above)

Finally, I managed to encode more games: start with olympic semi-final between Russia and the Netherlands

1th set: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TWLZ6KIU
2nd set: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GH0276R2
3th set: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SKZLXADM

Little bit dissapointing game, the Russian team is simply no competition for the Dutch. The Russians are dominated in every single aspect of the game (e.g. compare Blangé's setting to Kammutskikh's - so much faster, more varied, precize).

Hope you'll enjoy the quality of this footage, I baught myself a Dazzle firewire DV bridge on eBay (mpeg encoding device between vcr and pc - an amazing piece of equipment!). This allows me to capture the VCR-content initially at much higher quality and the final result in divx is much better, with audio in perfect sync.

Quote from "HeeelMooi"

AWESOME man! Quality is really good. And yeah Russian kinda suck, but cool to see Holland OWN!

Seriously though you do not know how happy this stuff makes me. Each time you put something up like this, I feel like it's my birthday!

Well then, happy birthday... I guess!
(Glad to hear you enjoy it)

Game between host country USA and Bulgary in Poule A.

Great to see Ganev getting more and more irritated by the Americans
(disputing some calls).
Golden oldie Jeff Stork ('88 Golden medal and '92 bronze medal- together with Ctvrtlik) alternates with Lloyd Ball on USA's setter position - always a treat to watch him distribute the game.

set 1: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UIYRGCET (from half way)
set 3: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B32JQ342 (from 0-5)
set 4: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=30GLP3W2 (last part)
set 5: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4SIQ4LGO (entirely)

Both teams meet twice in this tournament: first, during this game in the preliminary round and later in the semi-final.

Eventually, all 3 medals went to poule-B teams (The Netherlands, Italy and Yugoslavia - see details in wikipedia-link in first post of this thread).

This game was partially taped from Eurosport, partially from a French channel (broadcasting in palPlus 16-9)

1th set: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AIBL0C8T
2nd set: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S8JYAN2G
3th set: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LVNHLMM8

Quote from "diogobrant"

Richard, do u have Brazil VS Yugoslavia and Cuba VS Russia?

Here you go. I was about to upload this game anyway.
I don't have the Cuba-Russia game - Worse even, no Cuba-games altogether.

The Yugo's manage to win the first 2 sets easily, the Brazilians win the 3th.
The 4th set is the hardest-fought.

3th set: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q3E6Z472
4th set: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=40OHD5ZW
5th set (partially): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TF9H08DV

Quote from "diogobrant"

Thanks, Richard. Great game!
But, do u have 1th and 2th sets?

Unfortunately not, sorry.