The tournament was a ranking competition for the start of the London 2012 Olympics qualifiers.
In the women's competition, South Africa was second with Namibia third. Namibia was second with Zambia third in the men's section.The South African men's team beat both Namibia and Zambia 4-0 after they won all their matches without dropping a set.
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In their first match, Namibia B (Heiko Diehl and Peter Brinkman) lost 21:14, 21:12 against the South African B side of Leo Williams and Jerome Fredricks. They also fell to the South African A (Freedom Chiya and Grant Goldschmidt).
The Namibian A side of Rector Mbeha and Mwita Sikopo did not fare better, as they went down 21:17, 21:19 to the South African B side and then went on to lose 21:9, 21:10 to the South African A team.
The women from Mauritius emerged as the winners after they beat South Africa 3-1 and Namibia 4-0.
In their last match of the event, Namibia B played Mauritius B in what could easily be the match of the tournament.
After losing the first set 21:12, the Namibian pair of Julia Laggner and Corina Wahl came back in the second set to win it 15:21. They led for most of the third set but ended up losing the set 15:12 and the match as a result of some mistakes.
The Namibia A team of Lizette Röttcher and Simone von Wietersheim also only won one set during the two-day tournament. That was against the South African A side. 8:21, 21:19, 12:15. The Mauritian B team of Prisca Seerungen and Marjorie Nadal lost only one match (2-0) against the South African B team of Palesa Sethonyana and Randy Williams. They managed to beat the South African A team (Amelia Luyt and Natasha Strydom) 2-0.The A team of Mauritius (Elodie Li yuk lo and Natacha Rigobert) had a clean sweep as they won all their matches without dropping a single set. The captain of the Mauritian team, Rigobert, was very excited after they were announced as the winners of the women's section of the competition.
The history of Olympic volleyball can be traced back to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, where volleyball was played as part of an American sports demonstration event. Consideration of its addition to the Olympic program, however, was given only ... after World War II, with the foundation of the FIVB and of some of the continental confederations. In 1957, a special tournament was held at the 53rd IOC session in Sofia, Bulgaria to support such request. The competition was a success, and the sport was officially introduced in 1964.The volleyball Olympic tournament was originally a simple competition, whose format paralleled the one still employed in the World Cup: all teams played against each other team and then were ranked by wins , set average and point average. One disadvantage of this round-robin system is that medal winners could be determined before the end of the games, making the audience lose interest in the outcome of the remaining matches.
We may see some individual promoters hosting events one-offs as we saw just after the AVP's collapse last August. Of course the more elite level players will continue to have the FIVB Tour option and there is a possibility that we may get a few FIVB events on US soil.The London Olympics are fast approaching and the qualifications system is changing. The FIVB recently gave more control to national governing bodies like USAV to determine who will represent the country at the Olympics. In 2011, we'll see a new beach volleyball qualification system that USAV developed this year. That should make for some interesting viewing and inevitably some lively debate.
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