Episode 1277
Beach volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament
Sun, 2020-Nov-01 02:16 UTC
Length - 2:08
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The random article for Sunday, 1 November 2020 is Beach volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament.
The women's beach volleyball tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held from
August 9 to August 21, at the Beach Volleyball Ground at Chaoyang Park. Each of the 24 pairs in the tournament was placed in one of six groups of four teams apiece, and played a round-robin within that pool. The top two teams in each pool advanced to the Round of 16. The six third-place teams were ranked against each other, with ties being broken by the ratio of points won to lost. The best two advanced to the Round of 16, while the other four played two matches (#3 vs. #6 and #4 vs. #5) with the winners of those two matches advancing as well. The losers of those matches, along with the fourth-place teams in each group, were eliminated.
The 16 teams that advanced to the elimination rounds played a single-elimination tournament with a bronze medal match between the semifinal losers.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:16 UTC on Sunday, 1 November 2020.
For the full current version of the article, see Beach volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament on Wikipedia.
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