Women's Beach Volleyball AVC Asian Continental Cup 2023 - 2024 (Central Asia Zone)

Switzerland is the clear favourite for gold with Odermatt/Meillard and Von Allmen/Nef.   It's weird they didn't go with Von Allmen/Meillard, which would have been an even more untouchable duo, barring mistakes. It's as if they opted to go for a 1-2 instead of maximizing their chances of winning.   My personal pick for bronze would be the Austrian duo of Kriechmayr and Feller.   Still, it is a very difficult race to predict, and I don't remember the slalom course particularly well because there have been no slalom races in Bormio for a long time (I'm pretty sure it's quite flat, though).

Preliminary Round February 5th - February 19th, 2026 10 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Nations from Group A and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Nations from Group B will qualify for the Quarterfinals   Day 4 Results   Group A Central European Time (GMT +1)   Czechia  2 - 0    Finland Period-by-Period: 2-0, 0-0, 0-0 February 8th 2026, h. 21:10, Milano Rho Ice Hockey Arena, Milano   Group A Provisional Standing After Day 4   Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. United States 2 2(0) 0(0) 10 1 +9 6 Czechia 3 1(0) 2(1) 6 9 -3 4 Canada 1 1(0) 0(0) 4 0 +4 3 Switzerland 2 1(1) 1(0) 4 7 -3 2 Finland 2 0(0) 2(0) 0 7 -7 0   Group B Central European Time (GMT +1)   France  0 - 4  Sweden Period-by-Period: 0-3, 0-1, 0-0 February 8th 2026, h. 16:40, Milano Rho Ice Hockey Arena, Milano   Group B Provisional Standing After Day 4   Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Sweden 3 3(0) 0(0) 14 2 +12 9 Germany 2 1(0) 1(0) 6 6 0 3 Japan 2 1(0) 1(0) 5 7 -2 3  Italy 2 1(0) 1(0) 5 7 -2 3 France 3 0(0) 3(0) 3 11 -8 0   Nations Qualified for the Quarterfinals (Partial)   Canada Czechia Finland  Sweden Switzerland United States

I genuinely wonder why Switzerland decided to kind of spread their chances instead of go with the dream team. Why not put your best slalom guy with your best downhill guy?

Mixed Team Event Final Results   United States Ilia Malinin Alysa Liu Amber Glenn Ellie Kam Danny O´Shea Madison Chock Evan Bates 69   Japan Yuma Kagiyama Shun Sato Kaori Sakamoto Riku Miura Ryuichi Kihara Utana Yoshida Masaya Morita 68   Italy Daniel Grassl Matteo Rizzo Lara Naki Gutmann Sara Conti Niccolo Macii Charlene Guignard Marco Fabbri 60   Full Final Result HERE  

And it was perfectly achieved, well done