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Italy looking to move up from fifth in Olympic Games
- Updated: May 25, 2016
Lausanne, Switzerland, May 25, 2016 – Despite having one of the strongest volleyball cultures in the world, the Italian women’s team haven’t always lived up to their promise.
In fact, Italy only qualified for the Olympics for the first time in 2000, some 36 years after the sport was introduced to the Games. Like this year, that was also through an Olympic Qualification Tournament in Tokyo. Korea also qualified from the same tournament, but the Netherlands and Japan missed out.
Since 2000, Italy have competed in every Olympic Games, but they have never progressed beyond the Quarterfinals.
Italy would have to settle for just making it to Sydney in 2000. They won only one of their give Group B matches – against Peru, who lost all five – although the game against Korea was epic. They lost that one 23-25, 25-18, 25-22, 22-25, …
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