At 7 PM Beijing time on July 28, all eyes will be on the women’s volleyball Group B match at the Paris Olympics, featuring Japan, ranked seventh in the world, against Poland, ranked fourth. This ...

On March 12, a surprising announcement shook the world of volleyball: Airi Inoue, the talented Japanese women's volleyball player, declared her retirement from professional sports. This decision came ...

Turkish women's volleyball team on Saturday defeated Japan 3-1 to qualify for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. "The #1 ranked team in the world & also the reigning VNL & European Champions have ...

Japan's glory days in volleyball date back more than half a century. The women's team, the "Oriental Witches", famously defeated the Soviet Union to win gold at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics ...

Japan, the second-ranked team in the world, faced off against 11th-ranked Germany to get the tournament started in Pool B. In an eye-popping upset to begin the men’s volleyball slate at the Paris ...

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France claimed the judo gold medal in the first mixed team event ever held in the Games on Saturday, beating Japan 4-1 in the ... and two bronze medals from his Olympics appearances.