China’s defences broken
NZPA-Reuter Seoul The Soviet Union tore apart China’s wall of defence and bundled the title holder out of the women’s Olympics volleyball competition with a shock 3-0 semi-final win on Tuesday. The Soviet team, which boycotted the 1984 Los Angeles Games, stunned the favourite by storming to a 15-0 win in the first set in 11 minutes. The Soviet Union meets
Peru, which beat Japan in the other semi-final, in the final today. The demoralised Chinese, who suffered an upset 3-2 loss to Peru in the preliminaries, hurriedly patched up their defence and appeared to make a comeback in the second set with strong rallies. But they failed to find the finishing touch, squandering each service change with bad services or mistimed blocks which
allowed the Russians to take the set in 21 minutes. The Soviet Union led from start to finish to take the third set and wrap up the match 15-0,15-9,15-2. Peru led 2-0 and appeared to be coasting to a straight set win when the Japanese equalised. Peru took the’rubber in 31 minutes after speeding up its attack to finish the match 15-9, 15-6, 6-15, 1015, 15-13.
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Press, 29 September 1988, Page 45
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