The Canadian women’s volleyball group had their Olympic goals all however ended Friday with a 3-0 loss to the Netherlands in Volleyball Nations League motion in Fukuoka, Japan.
Set scores have been 26-24, 25-16 and 25-23 as the Dutch opened a 22.47-point hole over Canada in world rankings factors with only one sport remaining in the Paris Olympics qualification window for every group.
The Dutch are ninth in the world rankings and presently maintain the ultimate qualifying spot forward of No. 10 Canada.
Canada, which has not certified for the Olympics since 1996, subsequent performs Nineteenth-ranked France on Saturday, whereas the Netherlands takes on No. 34 South Korea on Sunday. Canada would wish to take most rankings factors from the French and hope the Koreans put up a 3-0 victory over the Dutch to have any probability of transferring on.
The ultimate qualifiers for the Paris Games can be decided by world rating place after Sunday’s VNL video games. The Netherlands and Canada are vying for the ultimate spot.
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Seven women’s groups have already certified.
Calgary’s Alexa Gray and Kiera Van Ryk of Surrey, B.C., every had a match-high 17 factors, however Canada dedicated 24 errors to seven for the Netherlands.
Jolien Knollema led the Netherlands with 14 factors.
Canadian roster
- Brie O’Reilly — Langley, B.C.
- Courtney Baker — Bridgewater, N.S.
- Emily Maglio — Coquitlam, B.C.
- Jazmine White — Oshawa, Ont.
- Alicia Ogoms — Winnipeg
- Layne Van Buskirk — Windsor, Ont.
- Alexa Gray (C) — Calgary
- Hilary Johnson — Calgary
- Andrea Mitrovic — Mississauga, Ont.
- Vicky Savard — Jonquière, Que.
- Kiera Van Ryk — Surrey, B.C.
- Shainah Joseph — Ottawa
- Julia Murmann — Toronto
- Kacey Jost — St. Albert, Alta.
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