Volleyball

Italy and Poland had been waiting for Monday night’s men’s volleyball final at Xipu Campus Gymnasium since Day 1 of the Chengdu FISU World University Games. Actually, the European rivals had their eyes on a rematch since the Italians captured the last FISU title on home soil thanks to a five-set win over the Poles […]

China celebrating their gold medal women’s volleyball win “Exciting, intense, golden”. This is how China’s Wu Mengjie described the women’s volleyball final win over Japan at the Chengdu FISU World University Games. But let’s turn back the clock a little. 30 August 2003 was the last time the Chinese women’s volleyball team won a FISU […]

“The eyes, chico… They never lie.” Al Pacino’s four decades old line in the movie Scarface holds true to this day – at least for Poland’s men volleyball team at the Chengdu FISU World University Games. During warm-ups for Saturday’s semifinal against Iran, every player was laser focused on the goal, to qualify to the […]