Olympics: women’s volleyball, bronze medal match

How the sport works

The first team to score twenty five points in three sets wins the match. The winner gets the bronze medal and the loser gets nothing

I was pretty exhausted this morning since I had been out until 6:30 am with a few members of the Kiwi and Aussie Olympic swim teams. They took me to an athletes only party the previous night after I ran into them by chance on the tube! But I had no problem staying awake to watch Japan and South Korea play superb volleyball for the bronze medal.

This was definitely the best volleyball match I have ever seen. Both teams gave it their all and there were some spectacular rallies.

 

The teams battled it out for every single point and it was anyone's game, as the scoreboard shows. Japan just nudged by to win their medal in straight sets.

 

Even though I didn't see the gold medal match, here are the complete results.

 

Medal results

Gold: Brazil

Silver: USA

Bronze: Japan