2024 Paris Olympic Games

  • Is it sure that france will be seeded as first? (Or will be in the first cup with Turkey1 and USA2 for drawing)


    I read the basketball example from Tokyo Olympics but I can't find what was Japan's situation in the groups.

    In Women's basket Japan was in pot 3.

    In pot 1 USA AUS ESP.

  • Someone said that Arina Fedorovtseva's father might be Tatar (Turkic ethnic) can we naturalize her for ethnic reasons pre-OG :rolll: (seems like that one is acceptable to people so)

  • Someone said that Arina Fedorovtseva's father might be Tatar (Turkic ethnic) can we naturalize her for ethnic reasons pre-OG :rolll: (seems like that one is acceptable to people so)

    I really dont understand why you would put out bait like this when things have been calm on here... Im not gonna entertain the topic.


    Instead Im gonna think about how good russia could be right now.


    Arina, Voronkova, Akimova, Paraubets, Goncharova


    That much pin talent is CRAZY and Im sure im forgetting names. I also love Malova. She was so impressive in tokyo

  • Someone said that Arina Fedorovtseva's father might be Tatar (Turkic ethnic) can we naturalize her for ethnic reasons pre-OG :rolll: (seems like that one is acceptable to people so)

    Somebody said also that after 21 September 2023 there will not be a player naturalization (who played in any senior NT) anymore :) :)

  • The new Russian OPP (Valeria Kozlova) who is 209 cm and the daughter of an ex-professional who plays for Zarechiye Odintsovo seems to be the new "real deal". Still very early, but she seems talented and scored a lot in the junior league. https://women.volleybox.net/valeria-kozlova-p75949/clubs

  • Somebody said also that after 21 September 2023 there will not be a player naturalization (who played in any senior NT) anymore :) :)

    "Somebody" didn't say it... The FIVB said it...

    From 21 septembre 2023 The requisite residency period is now extended to three years from the previous two. Additionally, a newly instituted rule clarifies that such athletes must not have formerly represented their original Federation’s senior national team.


    https://www.fivb.com/en/about/…ons-approved-by?id=100935

  • "Somebody" didn't say it... The FIVB said it...

    From 21 septembre 2023 The requisite residency period is now extended to three years from the previous two. Additionally, a newly instituted rule clarifies that such athletes must not have formerly represented their original Federation’s senior national team.


    https://www.fivb.com/en/about/…ons-approved-by?id=100935

    I know :lol: ;)

    It was just a language play to cut the conversation in naturalization topic .

    No more naturalization.

  • The new Russian OPP who is like 210 cm and the daughter of an ex-professional who plays for Zarechiye Odintsovo seems to be the new "real deal". Still very early, but she seems talented and scored a lot in the junior league.

    lmfao of course they have another gigantic pin prospect 😭😭

  • Somebody said also that after 21 September 2023 there will not be a player naturalization (who played in any senior NT) anymore :) :)

    It's the Tatar orgs in Russia thanking Arina's dad for representing Russia as Tatars and other Tatar ethnic sportsmen and women along with him. Just shared it because it's interesting and Arina's possible naturalization was spoken of here, it could also be for league purposes with double citizenship. Some people said she is from a neo-nationalist old school Russian family and therefore would never which didn't age well with a bit of research.


    Also ngl this isn't a real solution for naturalization, at most NTs will scout young talents before they can play for senior NT similar to Antropova for Italy. Also gives a lot of power to some corrupt federations which will force a player to play for their NT if they already plan to move, while the other with a more lax federation will be able to play abroad. Just my opinion.

  • The new Russian OPP (Valeria Kozlova) who is 209 cm and the daughter of an ex-professional who plays for Zarechiye Odintsovo seems to be the new "real deal". Still very early, but she seems talented and scored a lot in the junior league. https://women.volleybox.net/valeria-kozlova-p75949/clubs

    Interesting, do we have videos of her? I remember USA had a similar 210cm Opp prospect years ago but she didn't look athletic at all, and we never heard of her. It seems Kozlova otoh is already in Odintsovo playing pro!

  • Interesting, do we have videos of her? I remember USA had a similar 210cm Opp prospect years ago but she didn't look athletic at all, and we never heard of her. It seems Kozlova otoh is already in Odintsovo playing pro!

    Yeah, she has played at least one full game for Odintsovo in the senior pro league and it was against Proton Saratov earlier this year. She had like 15/30 in attack in that particular game, which of course is impressive for an 18 year old.


    Btw, Japan has a new mega-tall prospect as well. I dont know how tall this girl is but probably like 205-210 cm or so.

  • Yeah, she has played at least one full game for Odintsovo and it was against Proton Saratov earlier this year. She had like 15/30 in attack in that particular game, which of course is impressive for an 18 year old.


    Btw, Japan has a new mega-tall opposite as a prospect as well. I dont know how tall this girl is but probably like 205-210 cm or so.

    This one reminds me a bit of the American girl... Though I assume she is still very young so who knows. How old is she.

    The slide on the end was actually good.

  • This one reminds me a bit of the American girl... Though I assume she is still very young so who knows. How old is she.

    I dont know how old the Japanese giant is, but Kozlova is born 2005, so 18 yrs old. I dont think she is like Miranda Weber at all, because Kozlova already played great in senior competitions and dominated in the junior league and was the best or second best scorer in that competition. Miranda was never dominating at any level.

  • Btw, Japan has a new mega-tall opposite as a prospect as well. I dont know how tall this girl is but probably like 205-210 cm or so

    That girl has already come and gone. Must be an old video. Xinmuyi Zhang is the best I could ever come up with her name. She's Chinese, 202cm, and wasn't very good. She could hardly jump. I posted a story about her on vBox "She used to be as famous as Yuan Xinyue" lol