Beach volleyball
A footvolley star dog is beating Rio beachgoers at their own game
The game is a combination of soccer and beach volleyball. The athlete? A three-year-old border collie named Floki.
- by David Biller
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Brazilian dog becomes a footvolley star
A border collie named Floki plays is a footvolley star, beating Rio beachgoers at their own game.
‘Proud with gratitude’: Olympic Dutch child rapist Steven van de Velde breaks down in tears
The beach volleyballer admitted he nearly withdrew from the Olympics after the furore over his appearance in Paris
- by Tom Morgan
Brazilians tower at the Eiffel, leaving Aussies beached
The beach volleyball stadium will be the defining image of the Paris Olympics, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to play there.
- by Greg Baum
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Fears of another Commonwealth Games-style embarrassment as world champs left ‘high and dry’
Volleyball Australia counts the nation’s richest person Gina Rinehart among its major backers, but a lack of government funding risks the nation having to spike another global sporting event.
- by Chris Barrett
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Commonwealth Games
‘Are you kidding me?’: Australia’s beach volleyballers blow up
Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy explain why competing on a makeshift court at a former flea market is “normal” compared to playing on a beach.
- by Andrew Webster
Australia fall short of record gold in beach volleyball final
Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar were trying to win Australia’s first beach volleyball gold medal since Sydney 2000 - but were swept aside by the gun Americans.
- by Malcolm Knox
The Sydney Olympians who drove our beach volleyballers to the gold medal match
Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar destroyed Latvia in two sets to get themselves into the gold medal match.
- by Malcolm Knox
Australia’s beach volleyball team full of confidence after knocking off world champions
Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar are one step closer to their Olympic gold-medal dream as they prepare to face off against Latvia in the women’s beach volleyball semi final.
- by Amelia McGuire
Olympic revenge beckons as Australia’s beach volleyball guns face world champion obstacle
They had gold snatched away from them on the Gold Coast sand, now Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy have the chance for Olympic revenge against Canada’s best in Tokyo.
- by Adam Pengilly
Why beach volleyball players still wear bikinis
No, women are not required to wear bikinis to play beach volleyball at the Olympics.
- by Jimmy Golen
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