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2008
Olympic Games- Men’s African Qualifications,
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Final
Egypt to
Beijing Olympic Games
 Durban,
South Africa February 9, 2008- After a very exciting
final, Egypt secured the African ticket to
2008 Beijing Olympic games following their victory
over Algeria in a thriller five setmatchlasting
for two
hours of skillful volleyball action that made the
spectators very excited her at Tongaat hallin
Durban,
South Africa on Saturday.
After it was clear that Egypt was going towards a
three straight sets victory in their final against
Algeria
when they were 5 points ahead at the end of the
third set, the Algerian team did themiracle and won
the
set followed by the fourth set to extend the match
to tiebreak which increased theinterest of the
spectators who filled the competition hall.
As it was the day of thrills the third place match
went also to tiebreak as Cameroon camefrom two sets
behind to win their match against Tunisia 3-2 after
great effort from all Cameroon starsled by the
Japan
based spiker Jean Ndaki.
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Semifinal
Egypt and
Algeria to final spot
 Durban,
South Africa February 8, 2008- After a very exciting
day fully attended by the spectators Egypt and
Algeria qualified to the final spot of the African
Olympic qualification to determine continental
representative in Beijing 2008 after the North
African neighbors cut their way towards the Olympic
ticket following their victories over Cameroon and
Tunisia respectively in the semifinal here at
Tongaat hall in Durban, South Africa on Friday.
Egypt and Algeria will meet on Saturday to determine
the African representative in 2008 Beijing Olympic
Games where the Egyptian side is searching for the
second Olympic qualification in 8 years after they
qualified for the last time in Sydney 2000, while
Algerian men want to follow the footsteps of their
women’s counterparts who have already qualified
early last month. The final will be preceded by the
bronze medal match between Tunisia and Cameroon.
It is well known that the champions of this
competition will secure the African Vacancy in the
2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
The matches were attended by CAVB President Dr. Amr
Elwani, CAVB first Vice president and South Africa
Volleyball Federation President Mr. Tubby Reddy,
CAVB Vice president Mr. Baba Sy and Control
Committee members Mr. Camilo Antao, CAVB Referee
committee president Mr. Hassan Ahmed and CAVB
Technical director Mrs. Howyda Mondy.
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Tunisia secure the
fourth ticket to semifinal |
Day 4
Egypt, Cameroon
and Algeria to semis |
Day 3
Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria,
one more victory |
Day 2
Egypt defeated Tunisia in the
early final
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Day one
Big favorites achieve first
victory and the organizers lose
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