Volleyball: Italy lose final as Turkey retain European title
Translated from Italian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- Turkey defeated Italy 3-2 in Istanbul to retain the women’s European volleyball championship.
- Italy won the first and third sets, but Turkey forced a deciding tie-break and won it 15-10.
Turkey beat Italy 3-2 in Istanbul to retain the women’s European volleyball title. The hosts won the deciding tie-break 15-10 after the teams traded sets throughout the final.
Italy started strongly, taking the opening set 25-16. Turkey answered in a closely fought second set, winning 25-22, before Italy dominated the third 25-12.
The hosts recovered again in the fourth set, winning 25-21 to level the match. Turkey then completed the comeback with a 15-10 victory in the tie-break, denying Italy the title and a potential third major triumph after the Olympics and World Championship.
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Originally published by ANSA in Italian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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