Tetyukhin’s quarter-century Olympic journey comes to tearful end

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 21, 2016 – Tears in his eyes, Russia captain Sergey Tetyukhin, was inconsolable at the post-match Press Conference after Russia had the Rio 2016 Olympic Games men’s volleyball bronze medal snatched out of their hands when USA staged an epic comeback from two sets down to win in five at the Maracanazinho. “It hurts, it hurts, and it hurts in a major way,” he said.Apart from guiding Russia to an 11th medal in the history of the Olympics, Tetyukhin, now 40, also had a personal record at stake. Had that bronze not slipped from his grasp in such a devastating way, he would have been the first volleyball player in history to claim an unprecedented fifth Olympic medal.Sergey Tetyukhin painfully missed out on an unprecedented fifth Olympic medal at Rio 2016. Although he declined to talk about his future when asked (“Let’s talk about the team, not my personal situation”) it seems highly improbable that …

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