CorD Magazine, September 2021 issue no. 203

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Sport VLADIMIR VANJA GRBIĆ VOLLEYBALL PLAYER

The 32nd Summer Olympics in Tokyo, which were postponed for a year due to the pandemic, saw Serbian athletes win a record number of medals (3 gold, 1 silver, 5 bronze), while only a little was lacking for that success to have been much greater.

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Photo: Peđa Milosavljević / nova.rs

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he Tokyo Olympics represents the only Olympic Games in history to have been postponed for a year, the only ones to be held without spectators in attendance and the only Olympics to be staged under a special regime due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, which for the preceding year and a half impacted on the worldwide system of sporting competition and the system for qualification to participate in the Games. All of this led to many athletes, sports experts and fans awaiting the Tokyo Olympics with a degree of scepticism, while there were even athletes who abandoned their trip to Tokyo and participation in


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