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Two volleyball giants clash for Rio bronze
- Updated: August 20, 2016
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 20, 2016 – The last competition day of the volleyball tournament at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Sunday will start with the men’s bronze medal match featuring the United States and Russia. They would have surely preferred to play for gold, but would not want to go home without a medal either.
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USA and Russia (including predecessors USSR and CIS) have met 55 times on the global stage. The Russians have come out victorious 33 times and the Americans -22 times.
This will be the tenth time the two teams meet at Olympic Games. They faced each other at Tokyo 1964, at Mexico 1968, at Seoul 1988, at Barcelona 1992, at Sydney 2000, twice at Athens 2004, at Beijing 2008 and at London 2012. The Russians won five of these …
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