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Russian pair end Rio duos home dreams at Copacabana
- Updated: August 14, 2016
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 13, 2016 – Nikita Liamin and Dmitri Barsuk pulled off the first major upset of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games beach volleyball tournament elimination rounds when they knocked out Brazil’s Pedro Salgado and Evandro Goncalves with a 2-1 (16-21, 21-14, 15-10) win at the Copacabana Beach Arena on Saturday.
The Russians now join their compatriots Konstantin Semenov and Viacheslav Krasilnikov in Monday’s quarterfinals, the first time any Russian team has reached so far in an Olympic Games.
For Rio-natives Pedro and Evandro the result completes an anti-climactic home Olympics. They lost their first two pool matches, but qualified for the round of 16 after …
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