beijing olympics and that makes three was the last taste of success for the tse led by american david blatt who has been building this one for over five years now the need and the chance to play a lot of young new players because we were missing so many of our stars in the last three years and now those players have the kind of experience and have the kind of maturity that's necessary to play at the highest level and we'll get back. andre caroline go and hopefully hopefully victor. and you know we should have a good strong team the european championships starts on the thirty first of august in lithuania and will last through to september the eighteenth russia is in group d. with slovenia georgette ukraine belgium and bulgaria not that suff is drawn however every prep day is important if it seems to go all the way encounter us. the preparation shuttle has been set and it starts with this first session today however we're still waiting for a main players to join discord that's undertaken atlanta alexander kaun and rick that. some players already have international experience for russia but da