.svg)
Brazil's Women Can Book Los Angeles by Sunday 🌍
Brazil have won nine sets out of nine and one of them finished 36-34. Rosamaria hurt a knee against Colombia, and Sunday's match with Argentina is the last women's Olympic place on earth.
Seventy points settled the third set at the Maracanazinho on Thursday. Brazil beat Colombia 3-0 (25-19, 25-18, 36-34) and have still not lost a set in Rio.
Ana Cristina scored 28 of Brazil's points and 26 of them came from attack. Gabi had 10 and Sabrina nine, Brazil out-blocked Colombia nine to six, and Colombia served no aces at all.
Rosamaria felt something in her left knee during the second set and did not come back on. Sabrina replaced her and was still on the floor when the third set went past 30.
Brazil have not lost a set in three matches in Rio.
Jose Roberto Guimaraes, Brazil's head coach, speaking in Portuguese to Patricia Trindade of Webvolei and translated here.
Olaya played a spectacular third set. In the first and second sets they were not having that regularity, that consistency. In the third they decided to play, and it was difficult to stop them.
Ana Karina Olaya finished with 14 points, more than any other Colombian on the night, and Brazil took the set 36-34 anyway.
Brazil and Argentina are the only unbeaten teams left in Rio. Argentina beat Chile 3-0 on Thursday and Venezuela beat Peru 3-1, both on Webvolei's count, and Argentina play Brazil at noon on Sunday in the last match of the whole tournament.
The FIVB counts 23 continental titles for Brazil and 15 of them in a row. No other country in this region has won one since 1995.
The Olympic place goes to the champion alone. Second and third take World Cup places instead, which is the consolation the rest of this tournament is playing for.
Four women's teams have already qualified for Los Angeles from their own continents, in Santo Domingo, Tianjin, Nairobi and Istanbul. Sunday at noon in Rio is the fifth and last of them, and Brazil have not lost this tournament since 1995.
