Three players from last year's winning team have injuries. Even if they make it to the Olympics, they will lack training and game time, hence they will be out of shape. TUR should have let go of VNL and followed the Serbian model. I would have expected Santarelli to be wiser. This is also his first experience managing a team without star players....
only Zehra from starting 6. Anyways it all depends on Vargas so who cares
I agree, Turkey is much better than Italy lately so why on earth Italy is now a clear favourites? I would say Brazil and Turkey are teams to beat right now.
I predict:
FRA TUR JPN KEN
BRA USA NED SRB
ITA POL CHN DR
i really believe Turkey has strong back in FIVB
Yes I think that playing with 3 OPP at the same time was the main reason for bad OG performance. Rosner was already after her best times but certainly Werblinska or Mirek or Jagielo could have been starters. Okay Glinka was maybe half OH but Podolec never played as OH and I really don’t know what was Bonitta thinking.
Even with this crazy setting they were close to beating Japan and USA and took a set of strong China and Cuba but certainly they could have done much more than this.
Szczyglowska was great in VNL outside of Brazil and China matches. But Stenzel for sure is better receiver and more experienced at NT level. I’m sure she will go to Paris as a main libero.
I don’t think that being in basket 1 or 2 will matter that much for Poland. 33% chance of getting France is not such an amazing buffer tbh considering it would be more beneficial to get a weaker opponent in quarterfinal than in the group stage. I don’t think losing matches on purpose is a way to go… outside of that random time pre-Rio when winner of Dominican Rep - Puerto Rico match was going to play in much tougher Olympic Qualifier tournament with top Asian & European teams and the loser with the African ones. Still can’t believe how Kwiek decided that he wanted to win that match
but also this way Poland avoids Turkey and China and both are the teams Poland has worst record against
It’s not fair that a pool of
Brazil USA China Serbia
is just as likely as
France Poland Netherlands Kenya
That’s why host team should never be drawn as no 1. They should be drawn as per their ranking.
Hope Poland loses so we can be drawn from second basket and not the first
I can’t with people saying Czyrna won’t go to Paris because she didn’t play in turkish league… It’s like saying Bosko will not go because she is not playing VNL 
today she is 11/13 so far…
Yes let’s not take Czyrnianska to OG she just slayed Brazil on her own 
She only plays as libero now and we have like 8 more talented liberos than her
you meant 18?
I don't really know how come you guys give so much credit to a player who basically didn't play a proper game for a year. Czyrnianska was a good prospect but she hasn't shown anything to be considered 'for sure going to Olympics'. She should definitely get chances this VNL with Piasecka and then better one should get the spot. Even rozanski's place is not for sure considering how bad her season was. I don't think except lukasik any of polish outside players get a guaranteed slot in Paris roster YET
If we had anyone serious there I wouldn’t be sure. But Fedusio is bad in NT and Piasecka is new. Czyrnianska proved she can be at least a joker in extreme situation. The other two proved nothing so far.
For me it should be
Rozanski
Czyrnianska
Lukasik
Medrzyk
Fedusio never did well in NT and Piasecka has almost no experience. I don’t really know what can be so unexpected here on OH position. It’s pretty obvious unless we need a replacement.
Czyrnianska may not play the whole season for me but she basically beat Germany in OQT with 27 points. She is kind of joker and that’s it.
When can we expect the draw of lots?
Stysiak typically scores well but also makes mistakes and gets blocked but here she really played a perfect match. Seems what she said in the past that she wanted to be part of Turkish league is what she really ment.
Im sure Egonu wants Olympic gold and she wouldn’t care much if this girl or that one will be in NT. If she wouldn’t care she wouldn’t have played ECH as this is currently non important tournament but she still was on the roster.
I advise you to watch Cuba or China in OG2004/2008. Cuban serves and spikes were dominant at the time, while with China you can barely see where the ball is going as everything was happening so fast.
Pools were always serpentine seeded. Host was in Pool A, #1 & #2 in Pool B, etc.
The reason for the change is that more groups mean fewer matches in Pool Play, and shorter days for the staff.
yes, but for this years events FIVB stopped using serpentine and they did the draw - for example for OG qualifiactions. So it might mean they will follow for next year but who knows.
