RIO DE JANEIRO — The last day of the Rio Games was a miserable blend of mists and rain, however it was something else altogether inside the Maracanãzinho volleyball field.
In a taking off, energetic setting, the commotion caroming off the field's dividers, Brazil caught the gold decoration in men's indoor volleyball one day after it won the gold award in men's soccer at the neighboring Maracanã stadium. It was a decided consecutive triumph for the host nation, with triumph coming in the two games it thinks most about as the Olympics attracted to a nearby.
The volleyball gold on Sunday was won in midafternoon, hours before the end function started nearby. Yet, that was intended to be an arranged issue, a lot of it worked out early. Inside Maracanãzinho, there was no script.What there was, rather, was a serious fight amongst Brazil and Italy, neither of which could isolate itself from the other. The score was regularly tied, and when one group every so often assembled a 2-point lead, or perhaps 3, it was immediately wiped away.
But then by one means or another in this standoff, with volleyballs being violently spiked, with players jumping over the floor to keep those spikes from transforming into focuses, with the group frequently shouting, Brazil won everything in straight sets, 25-22, 28-26, 26-24. The gold was the Brazilians', after they needed to settle for silver in 2008 and 2012."We merited this award so much," said Bruno, the Brazilian chief and the child of the group's long-term mentor Bernardo Rezende. "It's a great deal more uncommon to do it at home."
Sérgio, the group's 40-year-old librero, or shield, sobbed amid the gold award service and, at a certain point, was tossed into the air by his commending colleagues.
"I simply need to thank volleyball for giving me such a large number of companions," Sérgio said, including, "The best of all is presently backpedaling to an ordinary life and having the capacity to get my children from school."Rezende now has a second gold to run with the one he won with the 2004 group. His postgame acclaim included compliments for his child, whom he called "a warrior, the mind of the group," and for Wallace de Souza, who jumped close to the net again and again to crush right-gave shots at the Italians and who played with such power that at a certain point, he pummeled the ball into the court toward the end of a play, leaving the prompt impression that Brazil had recently lost the point.
All things considered, Brazil had quite recently won it.
Despite the fact that Brazil started the diversion with an endless home-court advantage, it additionally needed to manage the way that it had lost to the Italians in four sets amid the preparatory round.
Furthermore, in the principal set Sunday, Italy jumped out to an early lead before Brazil got up to speed, proceeded, almost lost the lead and after that at last won, every one of this going on while Neymar, the legend of Brazil's soccer triumph, was close by to give a shout out to his compatriots.The second set soon turned out to be more crazed than the first. It was 14-14, 15-15, 16-16, 17-17, 18-18, and it simply continued going that way. Extraordinary plays would exchange with overambitious serves that went long or crushed into the net. In the long run, it was 25-25, then 26-26, and apparently headed who knows where when Brazil could score 2 focuses in succession and go up by two sets to none.
The third set was business as usual, Brazil proceeding to once in a while substitute for its six players on the court. At the end of the day, it was 18-18, 19-19, straight up through 24-24, when Brazil went up a point and, with Wallace serving, finished it off.
The triumph implied that Brazil's men caught each of the three of the gold awards in soccer, volleyball and shoreline volleyball, while its ladies did not win any. However, that appeared like an Olympics reference as the decoration presentation occurred and the group sang and droned and indicated thoughtfulness toward every one of the competitors who were on the court, not only the Brazilians.The Americans were cheered as they ventured to the platform to get their bronze awards; the Italians were cheered much louder as they got the silver, with their most fearsome player, Ivan Zaytsev, getting the loudest praise.
At that point came the Brazilians, who were given their gold. For reasons unknown, a great deal of the pregame open location cheerleading had been done in English and was as uproarious and stupid as in any baseball stadium in the United States. It proceeded, on occasion, amid the match, as well.
In any case, now that the Brazilians were the champions, it was all Portuguese on the sound framework. Their dialect, their gold, their minute. Furthermore, a fine approach to close the Olympics.
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