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Olympics Volleyball
The expression "Volleyball Olympic Tournament" is actually misleading as it is not limited to indoor volleyball, but also includes beach volleyball. Since its inclusion in Olympics, the usage had already been consolidated. To avoid confusion, beach volleyball events are often referred to as the "Beach Volleyball Olympic Tournament".
The Volleyball Olympic Tournament was originally a simple competition, whose format paralleled the one in the World Cup: all teams played against each other team and later ranked by wins, set average and point average. One disadvantage of this round-robin system is that medal winners can be determined before the end of the games that loses interest of audience in later matches.
Volleyball played as an indoor sport since 1964 Summer Olympic Games. Beach volleyball was introduced at the 1996 Games.
In 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, volleyball was played as part of an American sports demonstration event. In 1957, a special tournament was held at the 53rd IOC session in Sofia, Bulgaria to support such request. The competition was a success, and the sport was officially introduced in 1964.
From 1964, the number of teams steadily grew. Since 1996, both men's and women's events count 12 participant nations. Each of the five continental volleyball confederations has at least one affiliated national federation involved in the Olympic Games.
The first two editions of the Volleyball Olympic Tournament were won by the U.S.S.R. Third in 1964 and runner-up in 1968, Japan finally attained gold in 1972. In 1976, the introduction of a new offensive skill, the back row attack, allowed Poland to win the competition over the Soviets in a very tight five-setter.
The final confrontation between the western and eastern volleyball leaders came in 1988: power players Karch Kiraly and Steve Timmons pushed the U.S.A. to a second gold medal setting the issue in favor of the Americans.
The opening edition of the Volleyball Olympic Tournament, in 1964, was won by Japan, the host nation. U.S.S.R attained two victories in a row, in 1968 and 1972. Japan came back again in 1976 for the last Olympic gold before losing the status of volleyball superpower.
Since 1980, the strongest teams in men's volleyball belonged to the Eastern Bloc; the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics did not have an effect on these events as it had on the women's. The U.S.S.R. collected their third Olympic Gold Medal with a 3-1 victory over Bulgaria.
The American-led boycott of 1980 Games forced volleyball nations like Japan and South Korea to quit. As a result, the U.S.S.R. secured third Olympic gold medal with no difficulty whatsoever.
With a now U.S.S.R. led boycott in 1984, U.S.A. confirmed their new volleyball leadership in the Western World by sweeping smoothly over underranked Brazil at the finals. In that edition a minor nation, Italy, won its first medal, but still it had to wait some years to rise to prominence in volleyball world.
In 1984, the Eastern bloc was by its turn boycotting the games and again strong volleyball nations like the U.S.S.R., East Germany and Cuba did not participate. In spite of this the host nation U.S.A. lost the finals to China. With eastern and western nations again involved in the Olympics, the U.S.S.R. was victorious over Peru after trailing 0-2 in 1988's finals. This was the most dramatic female match according to the official FIVB's first century tape.
In 1992, an under ranked Brazil upset all-time favorites C.I.S., Netherlands and mainly Italy for a first Olympic Championship. Bronze in 1996, Vladimir and Nikola Grbic's Serbia and Montenegro (in 1996 and 2000 played under Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) beat Russia at the finals in 2000 to secure the Gold.
In 2004, the winner was once again China. Second was Russia who beat Brazil in a very tough semifinal match. Brazil mercilessly beat Italy in the final, adding a second Gold Medal to its record thus becoming the greatest superpower of 2000s. The eleven editions of the Volleyball Olympic Tournament were won by U.S.S.R., Cuba, China and Japan.
Gold Medals seem more evenly distributed in men's volleyball than in women's: former U.S.S.R. has three; U.S.A. and Brazil, two; the remaining four editions of the Volleyball Olympic Tournament were won each by a different country. The remaining main major force, Italy, is runner-up to U.S.S.R. as total number of medals, without a gold medal.
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