Venezuela president decorates Olympic volleyball teams

As reported by www.chinaview.cn Venezuelan president decorates both men's and women's Olympic teams

Special report: 2008 Olympic Games
CARACAS, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez, on Wednesday gave the nation's Liberator Order medal to the nation's men's and women's volleyball teams at a Wednesday public ceremony to congratulate them for qualifying for the Aug. 8-24 Beijing Olympic Games.

The teams had arrived in Venezuela earlier on Wednesday aboard the presidential plane and received an official escort from Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiqueta, along the La Guaira-Caracas Highway, to the official ceremony at Armed Forces Training School at Fort Tiuna, the Defense Ministry headquarters.

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