Long Beach will be home to the first FIVB-sanctioned Grand Slam beach volleyball tournament in the United States in a decade, organizers announced Tuesday. The FIVB is the organization used to qualify teams for the Olympics, and the Long Beach ...
View Complete StoryYou're much bigger than the other countries," FIVB president Ary Graca said last week as the sport's international governing body finalized plans for its first tournament on American soil since 2003. "My idea is very simple: ... Although the United ...
View Complete Story... The world's best professional beach volleyball players will descend on Long Beach, Calif., July 22-28 for the ASICS World Series of Beach Volleyball. The event is the first Federation Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) sanctioned Grand Slam ...
View Complete StoryST. PETERSBURG — Downtown St. Petersburg 2013 is a long way from the 2012 Olympics in London, but fast-moving, crowd-pleasing beach volleyball will soon link the cities. The Association of Volleyball Professionals has chosen Vinoy Park as the site of ...
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