RIO DE JENEIRO, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Reigning World Cup champions and Olympic title favorites China lost to the Netherlands 3-2 here on Saturday in their opening match at the 2016 Rio Games women's volleyball competitions.
Lonneke Sloetjes scored game-high 26 points to lead the Dutch women to the 25-23, 21-25, 18-25, 25-22 and 15-13 victory in two hours and 11 minutes. Robin de Krujif and Anne Buijs added 15 and 14 points respectively.
"We played with very good discipline, everybody played very well today. It is an amazing start," said the Netherlands' Italian coach Giovanni Guidetti.
Despite the surprising loss, China head coach Jenny Lang Ping thought it was good learning experience for the young team.
"It's the first match of the Olympic Games and our young players were a little bit nervous. For such a young team like us, it's normal to have some ups and downs," said Jenny.
"We had some problem with our defense, blocking and receiving in the fourth set. In the tiebreaker, we were not so lucky and we lost some important points."
Zhu Ting led China with 24 points and 19-year-old Gong Xiangyu added 18, but some errors of the promising opposite spiker cost the Chinese women the victory.
"As an Olympic new comer, she played pretty well in the first four sets. In the fifth set, she made some unforced errors, but it's understandable. She is so young, she needs some more experience," Lang Ping said.
The Chinese women outblocked the Netherlands 15-9 and produced six aces, compared to three for the Netherlands, but still failed to claim an opening win in their Olympic campaign.
China will play Italy in their second pool B match on Monday while the Netherlands take on world champions the United States. Twelve teams are playing round robin preliminaries in two groups with top four finishers from each group to qualify for the quarter-finals.
WASHINGTON yeezy boost 350 pirate black for sale , Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday adopted strong rules that would ban " paid prioritization" in which Internet service providers charge content companies for higher speed connections.
The so-called "net neutrality" rules, approved by a three-to- two vote, reclassified broadband Internet access from an information service to a telecommunications service under Title II of the 1934 Communications Act. That means the FCC would regulate Internet service providers more like traditional telephone companies.
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FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel cheap yeezys for sale , who voted in favor of the rules, said in a statement that she supported network neutrality because blocking, throttling cheap adidas yeezy boost , and paid prioritization schemes may undermine the Internet.
"We cannot have a two-tiered Internet with fast lanes that speed the traffic of the privileged and leave the rest of us lagging behind," Rosenworcel said. "We cannot have gatekeepers who tell us what we can and cannot do and where we can and cannot go online."
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"We believe the Internet has worked well under current rules," Walden said. "Resorting to Great Depression-era rules will trigger a stampede to the courts, unleashing years of lawsuits and uncertainty at a time when U.S. leadership and the Internet economy are more important than ever."
by Elias Shilangwa
LUSAKA, July 6 (Xinhua) -- With almost a month to go before Zambia holds its general elections, concerns have risen on whether the country will uphold the peace it has enjoyed for over 50 years since gaining independence.
Zambia will hold presidential, parliamentary, local government and mayoral elections on August 11 as well as a referendum on the amendment of part three of the constitution which deals with people's rights.
But politically-motivated violence has continued in the run-up to the general elections despite calls by stakeholders for leaders to urge their supporters to stop the violence.
Apart from inflicting injuries on each other, rival supporters of the two parties have also gone to the extent of pulling down campaign posters.
Violence has been a major sticky point in the ongoing campaigns despite church leaders holding meetings with political leaders to urge them to renounce violence.
There have been accusations and counter-accusations between supporters of the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) and the main opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) on who was behind the vice.
Despite a number of arrests from both sides, violence has continued unabated and analysts fear this could mar Zambia's good name of being a beacon of peace in Africa. Pictures of people hacked in electoral violence are the order of the day on social media and national newspapers while unconfirmed reports say some people have been kill.