2024 Paris Olympic Games

  • What a rollercoster game :white: China choked when it mattered the most and Turkey played their best game when it mattered the moat. If Cai made some changes in that Derya service run in 4th we maybe could’ve had different set.


    Referee was HORRIBLE. Baladin lifts, Yuan and Wang lifts, Turkey invasion of space… all should’ve been called.

  • Congrats, Turkey! This is a landmark victory for them. So sorry for china. Diao's misplaced sets on the middles + Zhu not killing the ball in the early part of tiebreak robbed them of points. The referee's questionable calls didn't help either.

  • Congratulations to Türkiye.

    Of course, I don't like this referee.

    When Wu Meng-jie spiked the ball out, perhaps this is just it.

    My favourite roster of Chinese (in 2022)
    male NT:
    S - Yu Yao-chen, Chen Lei-yang
    OP - Jiang Chuan, Dai Qing-yao
    OH - Zhang Jing-yin, Yu Yuan-tai, Liu Li-bin, Fu Hou-wen
    MB - Zhang Zhe-jia, Peng Shi-kun, Li Yong-zhen, Jiang Zhen-yang
    L - Yang Yi-ming, Yang Tian-yuan


    female NT:
    S - Yao Di, Diao Lin-yu
    OP - Gong Xiang-yu, Sun Xiao-xuan
    OH - Li Ying-ying, Wang Yi-fan, Wu Meng-jie, Zhuang Yu-shan
    MB - Yuan Xin-yue, Wang Yuan-yuan, Zheng Yi-xin, Liu Yu
    L - Ni Fei-fan, Xu Jia-nan

  • Turkey is set to compete against either Serbia or Italy, which promises to be an exhilarating match-up.


    It will be particularly exciting to watch Vargas go head-to-head with either Boskovic or Egonu.

  • Turkey is set to compete against either Serbia or Italy, which promises to be an exhilarating match-up.


    It will be particularly exciting to watch Vargas go head-to-head with either Boskovic or Egonu.

    unless the injuries prove to be non-serious, i don't think turkey will be very competitive in the rest of the tournament. they won this one due to sheer willpower but you can't do that in 3 matches back-to-back.

  • I'm glad that my OG disappointments (elimination of Dutch team, Stam/Schoon, handball girls and now China) are happening early in the day so there is time to recover and end the day with joy (Gold 4*400m relay, 3*3 basketball). Curious to see who will win a medal for TeamNL today to lift my spirits :rolll:

  • The refs also missed some rotation errors on the turkish side.


    On rotation 1, Vargas has to stand on the left of OH1 before running around. Instead multiple times she was standing in between OH1 and OH2. Happened a lot of times, not just this match


    Did anyone else notice that?

  • The refs also missed some rotation errors on the turkish side.


    On rotation 1, Vargas has to stand on the left of OH1 before running around. Instead multiple times she was standing in between OH1 and OH2. Happened a lot of times, not just this match


    Did anyone else notice that?

    I don't know if it's the case now, but I've seen teams pass with their backrow OH on the left side and the front row OH between them and libero. Perhaps they did this?

  • Semifinalists prediction:


    Serbia, Turkey, Dominicans, Poland


    Let's try some bold predictions lol, I know so far everyone goes with the opposite of this based on current forms and even AI does, but I wouldn't be surprised if I got 1-2 of these correct or more, the level this OG has been pretty similar between the teams, I don't think anyone is dominating the tournament, so dominating on the specific day will be enough, 1 match is doable.

    As of now you are 100% correct. Turkey in, China out