US Women Beat Brazil To Win 1st Olympic Volleyball Gold
Aug 8, 2021, 9:32 AM | Updated: 11:17 am
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TOKYO (AP) — The decades-long quest for the first Olympic gold medal for the U.S. women’s volleyball team ended when the Americans finally broke through with a straight-set victory over Brazil.
The United States had won three silver medals and two bronze since first getting on the medal stand in 1984.
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀@CoachSlabe (BYU ‘03) helped coach the USA women’s national team to Olympic gold last night! This marks the first ever gold medal for Team USA in women’s volleyball.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀#GoCougs | #BYUMVB pic.twitter.com/h60zVtXkHc— BYU Volleyball (@BYUvolleyball) August 8, 2021
It got to the top step at the Tokyo Games by beating the team that denied it a chance at gold in the final match of the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
The women of indoor @USAVolleyball win their first Olympic gold medal EVER!#TokyoOlympics x @TeamUSA pic.twitter.com/VAicS2KGwI
— #TokyoOlympics (@NBCOlympics) August 8, 2021
Serbia beat South Korea to win the bronze medal.