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U.S. Ladies Down Brazil For Volleyball Gold 

TOKYO - Jordan Larson tumbled to the floor, put her head in her grasp and cried after Brazil couldn't return her spike on match point.  메이저사이트

The disappointment of being so close yet not exactly sufficient was supplanted by a sensation of alleviation after the U.S. Ladies' volleyball crew at last asserted Olympic gold with a 25-21, 25-20, 25-14 triumph over Brazil on Sunday. 

"I'm simply still in a condition of shock," Larson said. "I cried more as of now than I might suspect I have in my profession. I'm not an enthusiastic player, a passionate individual. Yet, I think simply the feelings outwitted me. I'm currently in sort of this rapture, a condition of shock." 

The United States, which had won three silver awards and two bronze since first getting on the decoration remain in 1984, got to the top advance by beating the group that denied it a possibility at gold in the last match of the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. 

Larson, who was essential for that silver-winning group in 2012 and the bronze award group five years prior, prepared with her initiative on the court and her solid play on the assault and on safeguard. 

Larson and center blocker Foluke Akinradewo Gunderson, who both returned for a third Olympics in the wake of missing the mark in Rio de Janeiro, presently have a total decoration assortment following what is generally anticipated to be the last Olympic match of their professions. 

"I was unable to compose a superior story for her," setter Jordyn Poulter said about Larson conveying the triumphant point. "Her and Foluke have invested such a lot of energy into this program and experienced good and bad. To be on this excursion with them has been staggering." 

The triumph likewise permitted U.S. Mentor Karch Kiraly to join Lang Ping of China as the subsequent individual to win gold as a volleyball player and afterward lead a country to gold as mentor. Kiraly won gold indoor as a major part in 1984 and 1988. He likewise won gold in sea shore volleyball in 1996. 

Yet, he said this was more satisfying a result of how extreme a cycle it has been since he joined the staff as an associate before the 2012 Olympics and took over as lead trainer before 2016. 

"The objective here was not to help Karch win a fourth gold award. The objective was to help the USA ladies become Olympic heroes," he said. "It was all the more remarkable somehow or another for me today than when I was a player, in light of the fact that the primary Olympics I played in, we won. We didn't approach and lose, approach and lose, approach and miss the mark. It causes it taste and to feel significantly more exceptional when you go through the tough situations." 

The U.S. Got off to a quick beginning by scoring the initial four focuses behind solid assaulting by Michelle Bartsch-Hackley. It never followed in the opener, winning it 25-21 on a delicate shot by Bartsch-Hackley that gave her eight focuses in the set. 

That example proceeded with the following two sets as the U.S. Wound up winning every one of the nine sets in the knockout round. 

The match then, at that point finished in fitting style with a kill by Larson, prompting the sad embrace among the players on the court. 

"A many individuals needed to forfeit a ton for us to be here and needed to learn en route," Larson said. "We needed to discover that in London and in Rio that we simply weren't sufficient by then. Did we trust it at that time? Totally. We needed to go one additional progression to sort it out." 

The excursion to this stage has been a long one for a U.S. Ladies' group that began over 40 years prior when the 1980 Olympic crew settled on the choice to start all year preparing, just to get denied the chance to contend in view of a U.S.- drove blacklist of the Moscow Games. 

In any case, the establishment had been set up, and the Americans have won six awards in the previous 10 Olympics and presently at long last have their gold. 

Brazil had won gold in one or the other men's or alternately ladies' indoor volleyball in four successive Olympics, with the men asserting the title in 2004 and 2016 and the ladies in 2008 and 2012. In any case, it will leave just with a silver this year, after the ladies lost without precedent for Tokyo following seven continuous successes. The men lost an elimination round match to the Russians and afterward the bronze decoration game against Argentina. 

"The principal feeling that rings a bell is an inclination of bitterness," Brazilian external hitter Gabi Guimaraes said. "We were unable to execute the strategies that we had been carrying out in past games." 

Brazil played the match in need of help after external hitter Tandara Caixeta was sent home before the elimination rounds following her suspension for an expected infringement of hostile to doping rules. Tandara's legal advisor said a restricted substance found in a July test was brought coincidentally into her framework.