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Canarian Weekly
10-10-2011, 11:50
SPAIN’S leading beach volleyball teams had to bow to the Austrians and Germans in the televised Continental Cup Islas Canarias at Playa Fañabé, over the weekend. They won the men’s and women’s events respectively to lift the Champion’s Cup and qualify for next year’s London Olympics. The Spanish men’s No1 two-man team of Pablo Herrera [...]

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Carlos
13-10-2011, 10:38
Can't work out the link between the headline and the story. Have the Spaniards made it to the Games? Maybe I'm not concentrating properly but the impression given is they lost so they must be out. The use of 'they' in the opening sentences is most confusing. Someone put me out of my misery please.