Men's Volleyball FIVB Olympic Qualification Tournaments 2023

[Matteo92 98]

 Paris 2024 is going to be to Italy what Atlanta 1996 was to GB (except for the following resurgence, of course).

Edited October 4, 2023 by Matteo92

[hoversaBR 441]

So it will be ,  and fighting for the second quota. Very unexpected.

 

It should be funny if Cuba qualifies.

[Adriano 590]

19 minutes ago, hoversaBR said:

So it will be ,  and fighting for the second quota. Very unexpected.

 

It should be funny if Cuba qualifies.

Ah miss good cuban olympic womens team

[orangeman 1,989]

With their performance thus far this week, Canada has shot up to #10 in the ranking. Would still much rather they clinch their spot here though.  

[Josh 10,504]

Day 4 Results

 

Pool A (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

 d.  3-1 (25-17, 25-22, 21-25, 25-20)

 d.  3-1 (26-24, 18-25, 25-20, 25-23)

 d.  3-0 (25-21, 25-21, 25-16)

 d.  3-2 (36-38, 25-20, 21-25, 25-18, 15-11)

 

Pool B (Tokyo, Japan)

 d.  3-1 (23-25, 25-17, 25-14)

 d.  3-0 (25-21, 25-22, 25-22)

d.  3-0 (25-11, 25-12, 25-14)

 d.  3-0 (25-15, 25-20, 25-19)

 

Pool C (Xi’an, China)

 d.  3-0 (25-23, 25-21, 30-28)

 d.  3-2 (25-22, 25-23, 18-25, 21-25, 15-13)

 d.  3-0 (25-21, 25-19, 25-14)

 d.  3-0 (25-19, 25-22, 26-24)

[avlar 372]

7 hours ago, Josh said:

Day 4 Results

 

Pool A (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

 d.  3-1 (25-17, 25-22, 21-25, 25-20)

 d.  3-1 (26-24, 18-25, 25-20, 25-23)

 d.  3-0 (25-21, 25-21, 25-16)

 d.  3-2 (36-38, 25-20, 21-25, 25-18, 15-11)

 

Incredible game for Ukraine. We had a comfortable lead in the second set and it could have ended 3:0 in favour of our team.

But Darlan was the men who made it bottom up. Superb game from Brazilian star.

[Josh 10,504]

 coach Behrouz Ataei resigned after their 3-1 loss to the Czech Republic (also suffering earlier losses to Ukraine in 3 and Germany in 4). Assistant coach Alireza Toloukian takes over for the remainder of the tournament. 

Edited October 5, 2023 by Josh

[Josh 10,504]

On 9/29/2023 at 5:06 PM, Josh said:

Here are my predictions for the top three (and quotas) in each pool. 

 

Pool A:  -

Pool B:  -

Pool C:  - 

Update:

 

Pool A: Iran traveled with their A-squad to the Asian Games in China, and a couple of days later went to Rio for the OQT. They’re also missing a few key players (Ebadipour being one of them) don’t know why I had them placing within the top three (probably should’ve gone with Cuba then Germany then Iran)
 

Brazil has been an absolute mess as well, but I thought they would pull it together in time. Guess not… 

 

Germany is having a phenomenal run. Grozer, of course the star of the team with 105 points in 4 matches 

 

Right now I’d go with

 

Pool B: United States and Slovenia performing as expected. Turkey, despite their 1-3 record are playing really well too, with a win in 4 over Serbia. Definitely a team to watch for the future. Japan struggling against Finland (barely surviving in 5) and losing to Egypt (also in 5) was definitely not something I had on my bingo card, although after their first match against Finland, an upset for Egypt seemed very much possible. Fatigue must be setting in. 

 

Still going with

 

Pool C: Belgium and Canada are the real surprises of this pool. Belgium, by sweeping Netherlands, and losing to Argentina and Poland in 5. Canada, by winning against Netherlands in 5, winning against Argentina in 4, and losing to Poland in 5. Don’t know what’s happened to Netherlands, must be the same situation with Japan. Nimir is playing well though. Poland has shown they are far from unbeatable but should place first in the pool. 
 

Going with  now

Edited October 6, 2023 by Josh

[hoversaBR 441]

29 minutes ago, Josh said:

Brazil has been an absolute mess as well, but I thought they would pull it together in time. Guess not… 

You were more optimistic than any brazilian. 

Totally expected result, we unfortunately expected that only Italy would be a decent team here, so we could at least win the second quota. 

[Josh 10,504]

Canada takes the first set 25-21 against Bulgaria!