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Vanuatu women’s volleyball team hopes to make history by qualifying for Tokyo Olympics – ABC News
The Vanuatu women’s volleyball team came within a hair’s breadth of qualifying for the Rio Olympics in 2016. As the Tokyo Games loom, they are on the verge once…
When Debbie Masauvakalo founded the Vanuatu beach volleyball team in 2007, she had high hopes.
But she never imagined how far the women would go.
“Our aim was just to become the best at beach volleyball in the Pacific,” the Australian former volunteer said.
“So we never started with the ambition of qualifying for the Olympic Games.”
But in 2009, Australian Olympic gold medal winner Natalie Cook saw the team play during a visit to Vanuatu and she told Masauvakalo they were world-class.
“She planted…
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