It's only WADA's decision. IOC and FIVB can reject the suggestion. ICO rejected WADA and let Russia to be in Rio 2016. FIFA also let Russia to hold World Cup 2018.
Just wait and see!
IOC did not "reject" WADA. They left the decision to each international federation. And basically only the athletics federation banned Russia.
FIVB in particular is very pro Russia, so I doubt they will ban their teams if it's up to them.
Will relegation of football team affect Sada Cruzeiro? or is the vball team completely self-sufficent? I've noticed last two seasons they haven't had the same level of squad as in the past.
This was the key set.
Meh, now Lube will win..
I really don't understand why they didn't invite more teams.
Cuz Cruzeiro is better coached.
Maybe he's right regarding the South America. I would like to see the game Finland or Greece against Argentina.
Not sure about Greece or Finland but Argentina defeated Croatia (ironic 
) 3-0 in challenge cup this year.
Why there is only 4 teams?
This is terrible, they will be playing friendlies until the semifinals.
Which outsider team you think will give the most challenge to the big 4 this season?
Display MoreI think Pool B for 2020 is the most death group ever any single team can beat another one on a good day.. Here's a comparison during OG 2016
Pool B Tokyo
Brazil
USA
Russia
Argentina
France/Serbia/Slovenia/Germany
This assuming both Canada and Iran will qualify. If one of them fails then France or Serbia would go to the other pool.
Well, before the tournament I said that 3 wins was what I expected for ARG team and it was 3 more than that.
A really good team is shaping up together with the more experienced players that weren't here. They won't fear a death group at the olympics if it comes to that.
Argentina finished with the best attacker, setter and receiver according to stats 
Argentina has the best attacker and best setter in statistics but probably neither will be in all star team. I hope for one of them at least.
Just imagine how good you have to be in order to even become a pro volleyballer with that height these days. And it's not like Argentina has only tiny setters to pick from, his substitute setter in this WC is almost 200cm tall, but he still starts and plays almost all points.
Is Lima injured as well? He’s been sitting on the bench all the time. I only started watching near the end of set 1, so don’t know what happened beforehand.
Nah, just resting out the match. There seems to be some rest rotation in the team. For example, Danani didn't play vs Brazil despite we don't have any real substitute libero.
Argentina-Iran games always go to 5 sets and Iran always wins. So annoying 
Vnl? Nobody cares about that Mickey Mouse tournament.
Well, not much different than this match between substitutes...
I'm baffled that a very good Argentina still wasn't capable of beating the weakest Italy in decades. So this is how it feels like to be someone's Brazil.
Hmm this is not the first time you insist with that idea that Argentina is always bad vs Italy and I still don't agree.
I mean, obviously the record is negative, because Italy is an elite team, but they have WAY worse match-up vs Poland, Russia or Brazil. For instance, ARG defeated Italy in the last 2 VNL editions and I can't remember the last time ARG lost 0-3 to them.
Argentina simply imploded after the second set. They were playing crazy good and then suddenly tons of errors (especially from serve) and couldn't kill any attacks even from good reception (Italy drastically improved block defense too). Frustrating to watch but understandable since most players are inexperienced.
Canada is playing better today with their substitutes than yesterday with the starters.
Source?
Voleysur twitter.
