Argentina end 33 year Olympic medal drought, Decent performance at the Olympics in Tokyo 2020
Argentina end 33 year Olympic medal drought, Decent performance at the Olympics in Tokyo 2020 Argentina prevailed against Brazil 32 (2523, 2025, 2025, 2517, 1513) in the allSouth American clash to claim the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 bronze medal on Saturday at the Ariake Arena. Argentinas Tokyo 2020 bronze medal win took 33 years to achieve. Their first bronze medal win was at the Seoul 1988 Olympic Games in Korea. Conte led Argentinas doubledigit scoring performances with his 21 markers built from 19 attacks, one block and one ace. Agustin Loser was Argentinas second best scorer with 14 points, including seven blocks. Bruno Lima and Ezequiel Palacios had 13 points apiece and Sebastian Sole added 12 in the win. For my seven blocks in the match, the key was patience. We touched a lot of balls in block and defended a lot and these were important in our victory in this match. But it took years of work, maybe in the last four or five years, to develop our defence. The whole
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