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Russia’s volleyball coach commits suicide after Olympic failure

Russian women’s volleyball squad entered the London Games as one of the favorites, but missed out on medals, losing to Brazil in the quarterfinals.

The All-Russian Volleyball Federation says the women’s national team coach, Sergey Ovchinnikov has died. It’s reported he apparently committed suicide. ­43-year-old Ovchinnikov was at the training camp in Croatia with his team Dynamo Moscow.

The former Russian coach Vladimir Kuzyutkin says the suicide could have been due to the poor showing of the women’s team at the London Olympics.

"This is so stupid,” he told a news agency. “He was my friend, my colleague. No one said a bad word about him. Yes, there was a blunder at the Olympics, well, to hell with it. I don’t know why he couldn’t cope with it.”

The head coach of the men's volleyball team, Vladimir Alekno, confirmed that the London failure was a huge blow for Ovchinnikov.

“He took the Olympics very personally,” he said. “I saw what he was going through and how upset he was after the defeat. He didn’t talk much. Even after victories he was always thinking about something and smoked a lot."

Russian women’s volleyball squad entered the London Games as one of the favorites, but missed out on medals, losing to Brazil in the quarterfinals. Ovchinnikov led the country’s student squad to bronze at the 2011 Universiade and was assigned the as national team’s coach the same year. Under him, Russia booked a spot at the London Games, snatching first spot in the world qualifiers.

August 29, 2012

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