The U.S. women’s volleyball team won the FIVB Volleyball Nations League — which has become a familiar sentence — and heads to this summer’s Olympics as the gold-medal favorite.
The world No. 1-ranked U.S. has never won Olympic women’s volleyball gold in its 11 attempts and will travel to Tokyo for the July 25-Aug. 8 tournament eager to change that after taking down world No. 2 Brazil, 3-1, in Friday’s VNL final.
Coached by volleyball legend Karch Kiraly, the U.S. team playing in the final is the same as the 12-player Olympic team that was named earlier this month, led by two-time Olympic medalists Jordan Larson and Foluke Akinradewo Gunderson, plus 2016 bronze medalists Kim Hill and Kelsey Robinson.