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Emanuel/Alison too good - Laciga

Emanuel and Alison will play Poland's Grzegorz Fijalek and Mariusz Prudel in Monday's quarterfinals

London, Great Britain, August 4, 2012 - Three-time Olympian Martin Laciga of Switzerland says Brazil's Emanuel and Alison are playing too good to not make it to the final of the men's competition of the beach volleyball at Horse Guards Parade.

Laciga, who played at Sydney, Athens and Beijing recording a fifth, fifith and ninth place results, says the FIVB world champions are "playing at a level that would seem out of this planet"

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