USA to play Brazil for Women’s Olympic Gold

London, Great Britain, August 9, 2012 – In what will be a remake of the final match played four years ago in Beijing, USA and Brazil will be fighting for gold this coming Saturday at Earls Court after they dominated their respective semi-finals with Korea and Japan, cruising to a couple of straight-set wins whereby they literally crashed the resistance of their Asian opponents.

While Team USA will be standing in an Olympic final for the third time in history, thereby possibly going for their first Olympic gold, Brazil will try to defend the crown they seized at the last Olympiad in China.

Japan and Korea will be fighting for bronze, a result that would end a long absence from the Olympic podium; the last time Japan medalled dates back to the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles with a bronze medal while Korea’s last appearance among the top three came in 1976 with a third-place finish as well.

“Our team battled and needed to battle to go to the final. The Korean team made us a lot of troubles in terms of defence and blocks. We need to make some adjustments after the match. I’m proud of the way our team played today” said coach Hugh McCutcheon after the 3-0 win claimed by his side in the semi-final with Korea.

“We didn’t play our best in the tournament so far. Hopefully we will play our best in the gold medal match. We did play better after we reached 20 points” commented captain Lindsey Berg who had missed the quarterfinal with the Dominican Republic through injury.