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As much as this team is a disaster, it's not the girls' fault. Unfortunately Brazil is a country that only likes to win. They will only have great support here like the men's team when they start winning, that's the reality. Should it be the opposite? Maybe, but that's not how it works. The media doesn't help either, comparisons between the women's and men's national teams are all too frequent. No one wants to hear that "Marta is better than Pele" or "The women's team would win 5-0 against the men if the two played against each other".

As I said after the Brazil-France game, it's always the same.

With all due respect, this Jamaica team is horrible. If women's Brazil can't play better than this against this team, it's better to be eliminated. And I agree with you, our men's team is incompetent.

Normally I don't follow women's football, only Brazil games sometimes. Is this sport ridiculous like that or is it just Brazil?

It's the same thing as always. Who would be surprised?

Eu não estou confiante de que vamos ganhar medalha em algum esporte novo. Mas como tá virando tradição sempre ter a novidade da edição eu fico entre canoagem slalom e triatlo.

I'm afraid Duda/Ana Patricia will have a bad week and we'll finish the Olympics without a medal in that sport. But I still believe that the women's volleyball team and Andre/George are decent enough to win a medal. The others only if a miracle happens. Today I would bet on 2 medals, but I'm being very optimistic, I confess.

26 medals for Brazil... Well, I think this is only possible if our volleyball repeats the performance of 2022 (We won two medals indoor and 3 in beach volleyball at the world championships) and boxing, gymnastics and skateboarding won together for the least 8 medals. I don't know if I'm confident for that to happen. It's possible, but optimistic. 7 golds I found a little more realistic.

Poland playing without their top three players (Leon, Kurek and Bieniek) and still managed to win. It's very difficult to beat a team with such a good squad, even more so with fans like that.

I think I overestimated Italy too much. Japan

I agree, I would only add Beatriz (boxing) and anyone at the men's park, a little below those, but a real gold chance.

Defeat was expected, so whatever. But I don't see Poland beating Italy if they play like today.

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I'll be surprised if it's not a final between Italy and Poland here.

France needs a better opposite than Boyer.

The only volleyball team I don't like is France in the men's. Turkey's problem is more the rivalry and the insufferable fans who will give us hell for this title. And as I said earlier, I'm not a big fan of Turkey's psychologically aggressive game either.

Well, in the end, the best team won. Congratulations to Turkey!! I'm not a big fan but it's amazing what Santareli has done with this team in such a short time, he is easily the best coach in the world.

Go China

I know we're used to teams like Cuba in this sport, but the way Turkey and Santareli behaves... Well, for anyone who likes a show it should be interesting.

Ze Roberto was disappointing as a coach in this game against China.

On paper an excellent team, but that has shown some clear deficiencies that were not expected. First, our block is not being as effective as last year, despite having two excellent MBs (perhaps the best pair of teams in this final round). We still don't have a regular opposite, and our most regular opposite is good at blocking, serving, defending, but the attack is very weak and we can already see that Gabi cannot lead a team in attack, no matter how spectacular she is and the other OH is whatever. Well, and lastly, our service is awful, with the exceptions of Kisy and maybe Thaisa. Ze Roberto is a genius in this sport, and I have no doubt that he could find all the answers to these problems in the game against China. I also don't think the Chinese are clear favorites like the vinipereira thinks, but the team needs to improve.

Covell Great result !!

I'm really impressed with the quality of this tournament overall, lots of fantastic games.

Well, I'm not surprised, we always lose to the USA anyway (from what I saw we won one of the last 10 games against them). The team has potential, but perhaps the lack of a player like Ana Cristina or Gabi has shown some very clear deficiencies that were not shown in Japan. The team has a lot to improve if they want to win this VNL which is the main competition of the season (For the Olympics Qualifs we will qualify anyway, so whatever ).

Vital Heynen is just boring. This man can destroy any sporting environment.