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Diaz and Gonzalez shaking up normal order on Copacabana sands
- Updated: August 11, 2016
Rio de Janeiro, August 11, 2016 – Nivaldo Diaz and Sergio Gonzalez have had plenty of teams and fans scratching their heads at the Rio de Janeiro 2006 Olympic Games, wondering where this team that have won all three pool matches has come from.
The Cuban pair have taken to their first Olympic Games like the proverbial ducks to water and have cut a swathe through pool play.
Diaz and Gonzales began with a bang by beating the Netherlands’ 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships bronze medallists of Rio-native Pedro Salgado and Evandro Goncalves.
They followed up with a win over 2013 and 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour champions Janis Smedins and Aleksandrs Samoilovs and then rounded off their pool with a straight-sets win over Canada’s leading duo of Ben Saxton and Chaim Schalk.
“We have been training for this for a long time, for four years now in Cuba,” Gonzalez said. “We have really good trainers like Francisco Alvaro Cutino, who played at Athens 2004 and really good players to train with as well.
“We also studied our opponents and …
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