The Dominican Republic’s women’s volleyball team has one last chance to make it to the Athens Olympic Games in a pre-Olympic tournament to take place in Venezuela. Jorge Barbey explained that the country will participate in the Pre-Olympic South American tournament, where it will face Peru, Argentina and Venezuela on 9, 10 and 11 January 2004. The team’s coach is confident the DR will secure a berth for the Olympics during that event. The DR (ranked 14th in the world) presented serious opposition in the previous Olympic qualifying tournament held in the DR earlier this month, losing only to Cuba (ranked 6th). The DR had defeated Cuba in the Pan American Games held in Santo Domingo last August, but has not been able to defeat the team again. Canada won the bronze medal in the event.
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