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Jonathan White

Olympic women’s volleyball champions China started their title defence in the worst possible way with a shock 3-0 whitewash by Turkey at the Tokyo 2020 Games on Sunday afternoon.
The Turks dominated and brought up 10 match points at the end of third set. They only needed one to win 25-21, 25-14, 25-14.

China, coached by the legendary Lang Ping, are considered favourites for gold again alongside the world No 1 US team.
Lang, who won gold as a player for China in 1984 and as a coach in Rio five years ago, expects the team to put it right.


“Let’s try to make up for it,” she said after the defeat, looking ahead to their next game against the Americans, for whom she was coach at the Beijing Games in 2008.
Lang also confirmed that star player Zhu Ting, the MVP in Rio, is more seriously injured than first thought. Zhu was benched by the end of the defeat.

“Right now we are so happy because we know that Chinese are a great team, they have incredibly talented players and they are the Olympic champions,” Turkey captain Eda Dundar told reporters.
“Today we served very well … In every part of the game we were leading. Maybe China didn’t play their best game but we played our best game.”
China face the Americans on Tuesday, before games against the Russian Olympic Committee, Italy and Argentina in the group stage.


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