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Italy hope to build up from London 2012; USA already did
- Updated: August 18, 2016
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 18, 2016 – Italy and USA will meet in the first semifinal of the men’s volleyball tournament at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Maracanazinho on Friday.
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The two teams have met 47 times on the global stage. Italy have won 26 of these encounters, losing the other 21 to USA.
Italians and Americans crossed ways at six different Olympic Games, including all of the most recent five editions – Barcelona 1992, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016. The European side won four of these encounters, including the two most recent ones, on August 8, 2012 in the British capital, by 3-0 (28-26, 25-20, 25-20), and in a Pool A clash here, in Rio, on …
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