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Also, if anyone wants to know, the song is the last few minutes of Learning to Live by Dream Theater.

Hey thanks for uploading. But the teams should be: 1. Brazil 2. Russia 3. USA 4. Poland 7. Finland 9. Korea 13. Canada (/sigh)

Heh great movie. I was just thinking, literally about an hour ago, I gotta make a movie dedicated almost entirely to digs ?

There's a chance the referee couldn't see it very well as there was some players in the way, but the linesman obviously had a completely clear view of the volleyball, he was starting right at it. Probably he just wanted it to be out, but he definately knew it wasn't...

Very nice Vid, great to see Hoto on the right side giving USA a tough time. In all honesty I can't stand the music though, especially not 9 minutes of it... ?

I don't know who can possibly listen to this music.. but some nice hits at least.

Haha that made me laugh. Great job on that block though ?

Hey. Not that anyone cares.. but the FIVB site, sometime fairly recently, released the new Technical Video's for the 2008 Olympics. I check fairly often, and usually the World Cup 2007 (or was it World Championships?) were the most recent. Anyways, lots of good video's in there I'm sure. Won't be long before we get some Youtube remixed. Check them out: http://www.fivb.org/en/technical/olympics/2008/men/

I like the quality of the vid. I'm guessing you recorded from an HD tv/reciever but into a smaller resolution format? I have this match, but my original video file hardly looks better than this. And uploading to Youtube never fails to drop the quality significantly.

I understand your pain. Canada was at the World League in 2007, and then we were invited back in 2008. And then the organization which funds many olympics athletes and teams decided to cut Canadian Volleyball from their funding list. The team had to drop out a few months before the event because they had no way of coming up with the cash required. Kind of sad really... I think it was Cuba who took our spot though. Needless to say, it's probably going to be a really damn long before we ever get another invite into the World League competition.

lol @ 3:04. The guy realizes his head is too far above the net on the block and Wlazly is going straight down the line, so he covers his face ?.

"RenanZ: we'll be playing without Wlazły, Winiarski, Pliński and Świderski so we won't be crying after loss.. don't worry....."

.... Why?....

Agreed.

Blame Canadian Television. The plan was to get the Gold, Bronze, and Semi-Final games, and on top of that several random matches as well. If it was me doing the recording, I would have gotten every volleyball match possible, but my uncle did all the recordings as a favor for me, so I didn't ask for him to spend all that time trying to record every singe match. The other problem is that Canadian Television is crap for volleyball. I have 1 full match (Gold) and 5 partial matches. If the Olympic stations played volleyball when they were supposed to then I would have had at least 6-10 full matches. Instead, they were scheduled to show a volleyball game, and instead they talked for an hour about useless crap, or showed repeats of other events, and then occasionally tuned in for the final set of a live volleyball game (they even did this with important games such as Semi-Finals and Bronze Medal Match!). Anyways it just happened that about 90% of the footage I managed to get had either Brazil or U.S. in it. The only teams I have are USA, Brazil, Russia, Italy, Serbia, China, so that's why there is no Polish team in this video.

ROFL wtf is the other team doing? waiting for him to serve out?

I mean yeah tough serves for sure! And they definatley looked like they might have been going out.... but after 2-3 aces on the end-line, I'd think its about time to play the ball no matter what..

lol 4 aces and then an overbump

I dedicated an entire little music video to that hit heh...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DpJbaFd0xk
Btw Vball2718 Youtube acc is mine, just that I don't want a repeated copyright offense thing, might get my oryx acc banned.

Awesome, great to hear Paw-e-l ?

Hey guys. Just so you know, I've uploaded some clips from the Olympics before, and Youtube took them down within a few days due to copyright claims by NBC. They have an automatic system to detect if its copyrighted footage. I created a new account to upload these videos so that mine doesn't get banned. But it is very likely that the video will be taken down within a couple of days, so enjoy it while you can. Also, if someone is able to record it and post it somewhere else for volleyball fans, go right ahead.