Comments on: 10-11: USA women sweep Brazil in World semis https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/volleyshots/10-11-usa-women-sweep-brazil-in-world-semis/ Mon, 13 Oct 2014 05:10:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Big Island VB fan https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/volleyshots/10-11-usa-women-sweep-brazil-in-world-semis/#comment-2570130 Mon, 13 Oct 2014 05:10:39 +0000 http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=25143#comment-2570130 6. KarchKiraly did not say that USA won a world championship in 1962. What he said was that it took 62 years till USA won a women’s volleyball world championship for the very first time. The first championship took place in 1952 when Soviet Union women won on home court. Check out this link from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIVB_Volleyball_World_Championship

]]> By: pacesetterhawaii https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/volleyshots/10-11-usa-women-sweep-brazil-in-world-semis/#comment-2570104 Mon, 13 Oct 2014 00:47:35 +0000 http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=25143#comment-2570104 My bad – Brazil won the bronze over Italy.

]]> By: pacesetterhawaii https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/volleyshots/10-11-usa-women-sweep-brazil-in-world-semis/#comment-2570094 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 23:21:01 +0000 http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=25143#comment-2570094 USA made history today by claiming the FIVB World Championship gold – defeated China in 4 – 27-25 25-20 16-25 26-24. Brazil won the silver over Italy. As coach Karch Kiraly said the last time USA won the world championship was 1962. Go USA!

]]> By: Big Island VB fan https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/volleyshots/10-11-usa-women-sweep-brazil-in-world-semis/#comment-2570070 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:11:38 +0000 http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=25143#comment-2570070 I now eat my hat. I had claimed that USA couldn’t beat Brazil in a major match without Destinee Hooker and they just did. And then they went on to win a historic gold medal match in the World Championship. And Kim Hill won the MVP award. I recall that some of the bloggers here lashed Kim Hill saying that she didn’t have the power to be a starting spiker. Wrong there, too. USA surprised us all! Better start a new thread on this topic. I’ll comment again when the new thread is up.

]]> By: mei https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/volleyshots/10-11-usa-women-sweep-brazil-in-world-semis/#comment-2570060 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 20:36:18 +0000 http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=25143#comment-2570060 thx Cindy!

]]> By: pacesetterhawaii https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/volleyshots/10-11-usa-women-sweep-brazil-in-world-semis/#comment-2570033 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 18:54:05 +0000 http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=25143#comment-2570033 The finals between USA and China will be shown at 11:30 AM today Sunday on Universal Sports channel 90 or 1090 HD for those Hawaiiantelcom subscribers. FYI.

]]> By: Big Island VB fan https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/volleyshots/10-11-usa-women-sweep-brazil-in-world-semis/#comment-2570005 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 09:38:56 +0000 http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=25143#comment-2570005 Only those who have cable or satellite dish can watch the final matches on Universal Sports. So it’s not so universal. For this reason I wasn’t able to see this thrilling semifinal. There was one highlight on YouTube, but only three minutes long. Yes, I was indeed surprised.

It’s ironic that Brazil was sick of silver. Well, they won’t get silver this time and neither the gold. At best they can settle for bronze.

As for China, I hope USA can reverse history as China had beaten USA for the gold medal in the 1984 Olympics, before 13 of the 14 players on this team were even born.

Wish this were the World Cup instead as the first and second place finishers would be the first two teams to qualify for the 2016 Olympics. Now USA is guaranteed at least a second place finish, but no Olympic qualification from today’s victory. Not yet. So far only Brazil qualifies automatically for being the host country.

]]> By: 'ohanaInBellingham https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/volleyshots/10-11-usa-women-sweep-brazil-in-world-semis/#comment-2569915 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 05:22:31 +0000 http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=25143#comment-2569915 WOW! Mahalo for letting us know, Cindy!

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