Rio
The 2016 Rio Olympics marked the end of a volleyball career in the national team of many famous players without whom every tournament that comes next will be much emptier.
Do you remember the article where we presented the oldest male players at Rio Olympics? Three of them decided to retire from their national teams! As for the oldest female players in Rio, only one said goodbye.
Before Rio Olympics, Sérgio Dutra Santos ‘Serginho’ announced he will stop wearing yellow jersey of Brazil upon its end and he fulfilled his promise. But he did it in style, by winning his second Olympic title and MVP award!
Sergey Tetyukhin was hoping he will manage to go into volleyball history with a gold medal as well, or any medal at all, but failed. He said it was over and will remain with ‘only’ one Olympic gold medal, four medals overall.
American Reid Priddy took his third Olympic medal, second bronze (has one gold) before retiring.
In Women’s competition, from the list of the oldest players in Rio, only Puerto Rican Áurea Cruz decided to retire from her NT.
Besides her, two Brazilian stars who certainly could play many more years on a high level surprisingly retired – Sheilla Castro and Fabiana Claudino. Both already won two Olympic gold medals.
In addition to this, we will mention several players who have second thoughts on retiring from their national teams – David Lee (USA), Antonella Del Core (Italy), Jaqueline Carvalho and Thaísa Daher (both Brazil).
To see standings, results, stats, videos, etc, visit our Olympic Games 2016 M page.
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