Cubans feed off Copacabana crowd to defeat home favourites

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Rio de Janeiro, August 7, 2016 – Cuba’s Nivaldo Diaz and Sergio Gonzalez began their Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games campaign by beating Brazil’s Pedro Salgado and Evandro Goncalves 2-1 (24-22, 21-23, 15-13) at the Copacabana Beach Arena on Sunday. 

Here’s what they said after the match….

Nivaldo Diaz, Cuba

“They are a really strong team and we both played really well. Beating a Brazil team in Rio was a good incentive to win and a great result.

“At the beginning I …

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