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There was also a split for the U.S. volleyball teams. The women finished a disappointing seventh, but the men, who have been training as a unit since 1985, crushed the Soviets for gold. "We have special cohesion from working together over a long period of time," explains powerful spiker Steve Timmons...
...Crimson used a consistent offense and defense to destroy Dartmouth, and the spikers also used Manda Schossberger as a back-row spiker to throw the Big Green...
...second game was close," Crimson spiker Eric Olson said. "We could've taken it, but we just didn't have the edge...
...Varsity spiker Dovle, for instance, always wears a grey Harvard shirt when playing in volleyball games. However, "One time, when we were playing Princeton, it didn't work," he says. "But, I took off my shirt, and then did well for the rest of the game...
...protest Taiwan's presence at the Games, China boycotted the Olympics from 1956 to 1976. In 1979, Peking agreed to compete at future Games side by side with Taiwan, but then joined the U.S.-led 1980 Moscow boycott. Like U.S. Volleyball Ace Flo Hyman and her teammates, Chinese Spiker Lang Ping, better known as the "Iron Hammer," had patiently waited for another shot at Olympic glory...