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The Controversy Of A Women's Volleyball Team
In our country, everybody is proud of Women’s Volleyball team. In the 1980s, they had won the world championships five times, which helped the team become the symbol of strong will. But no one can win all the time, since 2004, the team had met the setback and 11 years later, the new team won the championship again. What an inspiring story.
The women’s volleyball team is favored by everyone. In the TV, their matches will be showed, people will watch and yell for them. My parents told me that their idols were the women’s volleyball players, because they were moved by their tough spirit. I have witnessed these girls at the top and then started to fall, now they have come to the top again. They never give up。
China won the gold medal after beating Serbia 3-1 in the women’s volleyball final at the Rio Olympics. It is the third time that the Chinese women’s volleyball team has claimed Olympic gold, and the first since the 2004 Athens Games. Congratulations!
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As early as 1984, Lang and the other members of the Chinese women's volleyball team beat the host team to win gold at the Los Angeles Olympic Games, China's first Olympics in decades. This ushered in an era in which Team China won five consecutive international champions, greatly boosting national morale and winning Lang the status of national

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