It’s the second we’re all trying ahead to. The entire groups have performed one another because the winners transfer on by means of the ranks to the ultimate match.
The gamers depart all of it out on the court docket for an opportunity to win a gold medal on the Olympics.
It’s a momentous event as the ultimate match ends and the winner reigns victorious.
So who do we predict will win the gold, silver and bronze medals within the indoor volleyball competitors at this 12 months’s Olympic Video games?
Ladies’s Volleyball Match
Professional Predictions
How do our medal predictions stack up towards our group of ex-professional volleyball gamers? None of our consultants have predicted the identical 3 medal winners, although the USA look like agency favorite to take Olympic gold, as predicted by ourselves and two of our professionals!
Bronze – Turkey
In our opinion, we predict Turkey will pull out a win in a bronze medal match towards China as a result of I feel they’re simply scrappy sufficient to push by means of to the tip. This isn’t going to be a straightforward win by any means as the ladies’s nationwide group for China received the gold medal within the final Olympics. Nonetheless, Turkey received silver on the 2018 FIVB Nations League, in addition to made it to the semifinals of the 2021 VNL, in order that they have the abilities to make it far on this event.
Additionally, Turkey has a whole lot of nice gamers on their group this 12 months like Eda Erdem Dündar who’s an skilled center blocker that may make life laborious on the opposing hitters, in addition to their younger gun on the other, Ebrar Karakurt. She made a powerful look on the 2021 VNL with vibrant pink hair and big assaults from each the back and front row.
Silver – Brazil
This can be a little bit of an lame, easy prediction, however I feel Brazil and USA are going to the gold medal match this 12 months. They’re each on the high of the FIVB leaderboard and simply performed one another within the finals of the 2021 VNL event. It’s a secure option to put these two groups within the remaining match collectively, however I feel it’s the best one.
With how good USA is that this 12 months, I feel Brazil goes to win the silver medal, falling to Workforce USA within the remaining match. That is going to be a well-fought match with every sport being shut as a result of these groups are each so good. Brazil has made a reputation for itself as one of many largest volleyball powerhouse nations on the planet, because of its potential to drag out wins in each the indoor and seaside competitions, on each the boys’s and girls’s sides.
Brazil is trying actually good this 12 months within the ladies’s indoor competitors with stable gamers on the surface like Gabi, Natalia Pereira and Tandara Caixeta. Additionally they have a extremely sturdy setter with Macris and a sneaky good libero with Camila. They’ve the expertise and the abilities to play very well, however in the end, I feel they’ll find yourself with the silver medal this 12 months.
Gold – USA
Now for the primary occasion. Like I stated above, I feel Brazil will tackle Workforce USA within the remaining match for Gold, and I feel USA goes to win. This can be a very thrilling 12 months for the Individuals because the Olympics get began as a result of USA has but to win gold within the ladies’s indoor competitors. They’ve received three silver medals and two bronze and need to lastly add a gold to that assortment.
And USA’s head coach, Karch Kiraly, needs so as to add a 3rd gold to finish his gold medal trifecta: a gold within the males’s indoor competitors, a gold within the males’s seaside competitors and a gold as head coach of the USA ladies’s nationwide group.
Workforce USA is superb this 12 months with a mixture of skilled gamers coming again for his or her second or third Olympics and newer gamers enjoying of their first ever Olympic Video games. With veterans like Jordan Larson and Michelle Bartsch-Hackley hitting on the surface and Jordan Poulter’s artistic units, USA has a really sturdy assault. It’s going to be enjoyable to observe these hitters go up towards Brazil, in the event that they get to play one another within the remaining match as a result of each groups have such a powerful offense.
Let’s see if USA can edge out Brazil this 12 months and win their first ever Olympic gold medal.
Males’s Indoor Competitors
Bronze – France
I imagine that France will play within the bronze medal match and win. There’s a whole lot of good groups enjoying within the Olympics this 12 months, so it’s laborious to say which group will play towards France, however I feel they’ll win this match nonetheless. This match will likely be a enjoyable one to observe as a result of it’s at all times enjoyable to observe France play for my part. They’ve such big hits and blocks, and simply the correct quantity of smack speak to make the matches heated.
France has but to win a medal on the Olympics. Even once they have a extremely good group going into the primary rounds of preliminaries, they appear to choke within the event setting. So why is that this 12 months going to be completely different? Initially, they earned the No. 4 spot within the 2021 VNL, so their historical past with event play will not be an element on this 12 months’s Olympic Video games.
Second, they’ve a stellar group with Earvin N’Gapeth as a scary good outdoors hitter, in addition to among the best liberos in males’s indoor proper now, Jenia Grebennikov. With these two veterans and an total stable group, I feel that France can take this bronze medal so long as they keep centered within the preliminary rounds.
Silver – Brazil
For the ultimate match of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Video games, I see Brazil going up towards Poland. Each groups are trying tremendous stable this 12 months, so predicting a winner is de facto robust. Ultimately, I feel it’s going to be Brazil that wins the silver, falling to Poland in that remaining match.
Although Brazil is depraved good this 12 months with gamers like Yoandy Leal, Ricardo Lucarelli Souza and Maurício Borges, I simply don’t assume they’ve as a lot drive as Poland to win. These guys are simply so good and so stable, however their group has already received three gold medals and three silver medals.
Brazil is a really regular group and an excellent group all the way in which all the way down to the bench, so I don’t see them having any problem making it to at the least the quarterfinals of this competitors. They’ve laborious hitters and good gamers, however I simply don’t assume their group chemistry is as sturdy as Poland, which is why they must accept silver as an alternative of gold this 12 months.
Gold – Poland
Final, however definitely not least, is the group that may head residence with gold medals round their necks, which goes to be Poland. Like I stated above, I feel this match will likely be a struggle to the bitter finish with every group enjoying laborious till the ultimate level. It’s been 45 years since Poland received a medal, which was a gold medal within the 1976 Montreal Olympic Video games, so it’s about time they step onto the rostrum as soon as once more.
Poland not solely has the drive to win a gold medal this 12 months, however additionally they have the group to do it. They’ve been the reigning World Champion since 2014, and misplaced to Brazil within the finals of the 2021 VNL, so I feel they’ll have some unfinished enterprise they wish to care for once they meet Brazil once more on the Olympic stage.
Poland’s entrance row can be one thing to be careful for with veteran gamers Bartosz Kamil Kurek and Michal Kubiak sandwiching the newcomer Jakub Kochanowski. Their mixture of conventional play and mixing up units goes to be an enormous asset going into the Olympics. Additionally, Kochanowski’s single block is one thing that Brazil has to maintain an out for, as a result of it’s killer.
This gold medal match goes to be tremendous enjoyable to observe and much more enjoyable if Poland’s capable of pull off a win towards the volleyball behemoth that’s Brazil.
Who’re your picks for the rostrum at this 12 months’s Olympic Video games? Do you assume we missed a sure group?
