Paris 2024 Olympics, Italvolley women’s dream: tame Turkey and fly to the final!

Italy in final in women’s volleyball: Turkey beaten

The Italian women’s national volleyball team è already sure of a medal and on Sunday will play for the golden one: the girls led by coach Julio Velasco won 3-0 over Turkey (coached by an Italian, Daniele Santarelli), qualifying for the finals of the Paris 2024 Olympic tournament.

25-22, 25-19, 25-22 were the scores of the three sets, with the Azzurre good at reacting to an uncertain start to the first set, going on to win it with an 11-6 partial to close out the fraction, and consolidating the lead in the second fraction, in dispute until 15-15 before Paola Egonu and her teammates arrived to fix the set count at 2-0.

The Turks tried to reopen the games in the third partial but did not go beyond a three-point lead, while on the other side Italy never gave up and came, with a concluding partial of 7-2, to finally close the accounts, qualifying for the first time to the final for the gold medal of a women’s volleyball Olympic tournament.

In the match that will close the tournament, Italy will face off against the United States, which beat Brazil 3-2 (25-23, 18-25, 25-15, 23-25, 15-11) in the semifinals. Instead, the greenoro national team will challenge Turkey for the bronze on Saturday.