# One more Olympics question (volleyball)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-more-olympics-question-volleyball/261544>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 26, 2004, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-more-olympics-question-volleyball/261544 "2004-08-26T02:39:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-more-olympics-question-volleyball/261544/1 "2004-08-26T02:39:56Z")

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Last Olympics question for tonight.

Watching the US men play the Greeks, my wife wondered why one player on each team wore a white jersey. I originally speculated it was the captain. But then the Greek team entered their captain, wearing solid blue and another player on the team was wearing the white jersey.

Then I thought maybe it was a certain position, and it was to make it easier for the officials to notice them, but 2 plays later the US team had nobody wearing white.

So does anyone know why only 1 (and sometimes none) of the players wear white?

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**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-more-olympics-question-volleyball/261544/2 "2004-08-26T02:47:40Z")

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[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=271325&highlight=jersey+white](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=271325&highlight=jersey+white)

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**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-more-olympics-question-volleyball/261544/3 "2004-08-26T03:06:38Z")

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Thanks, **Reeder.**

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**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-more-olympics-question-volleyball/261544/4 "2004-08-26T04:33:00Z")

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Can’t I explain the libero rule a third time?

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**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-more-olympics-question-volleyball/261544/5 "2004-08-26T05:52:09Z")

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> [@BobT](#):
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> Can’t I explain the libero rule a third time?

If you must. I’ve never liked hampsters anyway. 😉