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The border collie named Floki plays footvolley on Leblon beach, Rio de Janeiro, on Sunday.

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.

  • David Biller

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A border collie named Floki plays is a footvolley star, beating Rio beachgoers at their own game.
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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.

Steven van de Velde

‘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

  • Tom Morgan
The Eiffel Tower stadium as the Australians played,

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.

  • Greg Baum
Mariafe Artacho del Solar will compete in a third Olympics in Paris, but likely won’t get a chance at a world title on home soil next year.

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.

  • Chris Barrett
Mariafe Artacho del Solar.

‘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.

  • Andrew Webster
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Mariafe Artacho del Solar during the gold medal match.

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.

  • Malcolm Knox
Mariafe Artacho del Solar of Australia in action in the semi-final.

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.

  • Malcolm Knox
Australia’s Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy.

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.

  • Amelia McGuire
TOKYO, JAPAN - JULY 28: Mariafe Artacho del Solar #1 and Taliqua Clancy #2 of Team Australia react after defeating Team Italy during the Women's Preliminary Round - Pool E beach volleyball on day five of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Shiokaze Park on July 28, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)

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.

  • Adam Pengilly

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