Battling volleyball team tires to leave Brazil with Olympic hope

Poland lost 3:0 against Brazil in the Olympic volleyball quarter finals in Athens. The first two sets were quite evenly matched, however, in the third set the South American national team found its form and secured itself a safe victory of 18:25 points. The Poles showed two faces in the match, with a strong beginning they fought hard in the first two sets but in the end they proved too weak and tired heavily at the close. "This is a team of which you can expect anything. One can expect that it will play very well and that it will not play at all and simply give the game away," said the national volleyball team's trainer Ryszard Bosek. In related news neither hammer thrower Kamila Skolimowska, nor lightweight boxer Andrzej Rżany managed to win the medals. M.M.