Canada qualified for Paris after placing second in its pool at the FIVB Olympic Qualification Tournament in China last September
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“It is always a great experience and every time it feels like a new one, too,” Hoag said in a press release. “We also have a very different team than the last two Olympics. Not only because of the several players retiring but also because volleyball has also evolved so much. It’s the highest level of volleyball in the world so it’ll be interesting to see how we perform outside of the recent Volleyball Nations League competition.
The Canadian men’s volleyball team is appearing at its sixth Summer Games, with a fourth-place finish at the 1984 Los Angeles Games its best result. Canada placed eighth at the Tokyo Games in 2021.
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