Post by ironhammer on Sept 4, 2016 23:05:03 GMT -5
Russia and Italy were two noticeably under-performing women teams at Rio. In the case of Russia, you could argue they were under-performing more, since coming into Rio, they weren't actually all that bad. They came 4th at the 2015 World Cup and won the 2015 European Championship. So they did have the potential to medal. But getting destroyed 3-0 by Serbia in the quarter-finals, wow, you would have at least thought the Russians would try to put up a bigger fight, but being demolished 25-9 in that first set was ugly.
So what went wrong for Russia? Former Russian NT coach and Volleyball Hall of Famer Nikolai Karpol was asked to analyze the reasons for Russia's under-performance. And he did not mince words. This is Google's imperfect translation, but you get what he is saying clear enough:
translate.google.com/translate?hl=pl&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uralochka-vc.com%2Fobzor-pressy-top%2F246-nikolaj-karpol-vozglavit-sbornuyu-rossii-da-vy-chto-mne-uzhe-78-let
So, you agree with Karpol's assessment of Russia?
So what went wrong for Russia? Former Russian NT coach and Volleyball Hall of Famer Nikolai Karpol was asked to analyze the reasons for Russia's under-performance. And he did not mince words. This is Google's imperfect translation, but you get what he is saying clear enough:
translate.google.com/translate?hl=pl&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uralochka-vc.com%2Fobzor-pressy-top%2F246-nikolaj-karpol-vozglavit-sbornuyu-rossii-da-vy-chto-mne-uzhe-78-let
So, you agree with Karpol's assessment of Russia?