Well spiked

Good for them! They seem so excited! Well done Japan!!!

A picture of sheer jubilation!

Watch out Yoshifumi...It's a trap!

Have to give them credit for this win. Not always does a team win unless all players, of the team, have competed in perfection. So they obviously did in this game.

Nippon cha-cha-cha

Congrats to the volleyball team. Unfortunately, Japan's overall performance has been fair at best -- 3rd in both total medals and golds behing China and S. Korea. With less than 1/4th the number of golds as China. Japan needs to either re-vamp its amateur athletics structures to make them more productive, or lower expectations to more reasonable levels.

I agree herefornow, before the J-pundits start comparing China's population size to Japan's as reason why China had so many more medals, here comes South Korea at less than half the size of Japan in terms of population, yet with lots more medals.

yeah but Sth Korea would really be aching about this gold.They had Japan all wrapped up and dusted in the semi and sufferred ingloriously !

This is one of the most beautiful sports. Congratulations. I think Iranian team should be in the picture too.