Press on September 9. Sport-Ekspress. The broken dreams of Olympic champions. ChM-2022 approaches to a medal stage

On tournament there were only four national teams the World Cup in volleyball in Poland and Slovenia comes to the logical end. Let's not remind once again that tournament had to be held to Russian Federation and that the Russian national team for obvious reasons is discharged of it. Tournament anyway turned out interesting. At a stage 1/8 we saw many surprises, and is closer to semi-finals in business there were only rather elite teams. Moreover, one of the main favourites left. The national team France, the acting Olympic champion, could not overcome Italy. Also the tournament way stopped...