Alison and Bruno break through tough times to keep golden dream alive

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 16, 2016 – Brazil’s Alison Cerutti and Bruno Schmidt reached the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games beach volleyball men’s gold medal match by defeating the Netherlands Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen 2-1 (21–17, 21–23, 16–14) in the semifinals at the Copacabana Beach Venue on Tuesday.

They will take on either Italy’ Daniele Lupo and Paolo Nicolai or Russia’s Konstantin Semenov and Viacheslav Krasilnikov who meet later on Tuesday. The gold medal match takes place on Thursday.

Here’s what they said after the match….

Bruno Schmidt, Brazil

“I was so nervous. We had a chance to win 2-0, but the Dutch played amazingly at the end of the set and didn’t give up on any points. I said to Alison we needed to overcome those moments and to be mentally stronger and go up …

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