Alison and Álvaro son were defeated 2-0 by Plavins and Tocs of Latvia in the quarter-finals of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and ended up eliminated. Very upset about Tuesday night’s game, Alison collapsed when she met with coach Leandro Brachola and left the arena crying.
Alvaro’s partner, Alison spoke with journalists after the confrontation with the Latvians, highlighted the good performance of the opponents and, when leaving the mixed zone – a place for an interview with the press – he met with coach Leandro Brachola and began to cry. The coach praised the athlete’s participation during the Olympic Games.
The duo was the last medal hope for Brazil in the volleyball Beach. The country has always been represented among the top three in beach volleyball since the Atlanta Games in 1996, when the sport was included in the Olympic program. Adding to the eliminations of Bruno Schmidt and Evandro, Ana Patricia and Rebecca and Agatha and Duda in Tokyo, it will be the first time that the country will not have a female medalist duo since the Beijing Games, in 2008.
At 35, Alison still doesn’t know if she will be in the next Olympics. Now he wants to go home, see his family and think calmly about his future.
“Honestly, from my heart, I’m going home now to my family and I can’t answer that now. The first one to know about this will be Álvaro, the second to my team. I’ll only continue an Olympic cycle if I’m competitive. physically and I was competitive here. I’m not going to burn my story just to say I came to my fourth olympics. My flame has to be lit and now I can’t respond. I need to go home, be with my wife and family, after one month here in Japan. It’s hard, very tiring. I’m very happy, not for the game, but for everything we’ve done, for our history and for what this guy has done for me (Álvaro). he said in an interview with journalists.
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