Italy actually world rank 2 de. go meet russia, cnt rmb wad world rank la, but also equally strong. italy got gold de at last year's world cup, den got third at this year's fivb. they damn pro lor, if i nv rmb wrongly got four times straight get top three in grand pix. the coach now massimo barbolini jus came de, in 2007 if i'm correct. and last yr they got 5th in olympics.

russia actually got more achievements :D haha. win olympics 4 times le, 5 silver medals. 5 fivb and one world cup (: more than italy lor. they got like ekaterina gamova, yulia merkulova and elena godina all damn pro de, help strengthen their team :D

italy meet russia first day first match, if i'm correct pool b. italy win, 25-20, 17-25, 25-16, 25-23. haiz. suposingly russia's stronger somemore. russia's number 16 damn freaking tall. *scary*

brazil is like world number 1. their first match was against algeria i tink. brazil won 25-11, 25-11, 25-10. but not bad le la algeria. its their first time playing olympics :D jiayou ^^

sebia and kazakhstan played at 1130 or 1145 cant rmb yesterday. they in pool b i think. sebia won 3-1

cuba world number 3, playin poland on sat. they won i think 3 straight olympic gold. and in 2004 bronze... they like got the best coach lar. antonio(merchant of venice :D) perdomo estrella cuba won (21-25, 25-17, 25-20, 25-17), they lost first set de, then fought back and won the other three sets

china rank 7. but they got damn good players like zhao ruirui feng kun yang hao and zhou suhong. damn pro de :D 25-13, 25-13, 25-18. they won expectedly against venezuela. one of the shortest game 58 min only o.O

usa ranked 4 in the world, they jus change a china coach la, look so werid and off :D:D hahas. so sian lar, go win japan narrowly 25-20, 20-25, 25-19, 25-21. hmph hmph. i'm so pissed. grrr. takeshita was damn pro la, the setter of japan. she's damn good, on top form. but the us the attack freaking strong and their block also at least 60%. hmphs danielle was damn good, the us de. haha, her spikes damn accurate and fast ): but the funny thing was that usa got a lot of fa qiu shi wu. haha, at least got like 8. so stupid.