After some long weeks of preparing and waiting for the start of the 2012 Olympic Games, the beachvolleyball athlets will start their competition tomorrow with the games of the first round, played in a round robin modus.
For both categories, the brazilian teams are the odds-on-favourites and the other teams have to make some real big efforts to win finally against Emanuel-Alison or Larissa-Juliana both active World Champions, with Emanuel Rego 5-times gold-medalist at Olympia and Larissa Franca 2-times gold-medalist.
And even if these both teams fail, other nations will have hard to win against the 2 other brazilian teams Cunha-Ricardo (M) and Talita-Antonelli (W), as well considered as possible gold-medalists.
But even if Beachvolleyball seems therefore to be brazilian territory, it will be very interesting to survey the other teams, Olympia being always a very special event with a huge motivating factor to write some incredible sport stories.
So have a special eye on female teams like Cicolari-Menegatti (ITA), Goller-Ludwig (GER), Van Iersel-Keizer (NED) or May-Walsh (USA) as well as on the male teams like Rogers-Dalhausser and Gibb-Rosenthal (both USA, with Jake Gibb resurrecting twice from cancer - does this remember Lance Armstrong?) or Nummerdor-Schuil (NED).
To follow the competition and the results live, the following links will be great:
and probably some games on Laola.tv
Enjoy!
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