Volleyball

Olympic Beach Volleyball: 4 US, 4 Brazil Teams Atop Beach Pools At
London ...
Huffington Post
LONDON — The Americans wound up in opposite sides of the beach volleyball
playoff brackets in a draw completed Thursday night – meaning the U.S.
teams wouldn't meet until the gold-medal game. Defending Olympic champions
Todd Rogers and Phil ...
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Beach volleyball-British women eliminated
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - British women's beach volleyball players Shauna Mullin
and Zara Dampney lost a sudden death play-off on Thursday that ended their
Olympic tournament, while teams from Brazil and the United States
maintained 100 percent records.
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US men's volleyball wins Beijing rematch against Brazil
USA TODAY
"Right now. Tonight. Each set. Each point," coach Alan Knipe said. Captain
Clay Stanley scored 19 points and the U.S. men's volleyball team defeated
Brazil 3-1 at the London Olympics on Thursday in a preliminary-round
rematch of the Beijing final.
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Beach Volleyball Photos Focus On Women's Body Parts -- Not Their Athletic
Skills
Huffington Post
Olympic photography can capture a gymnast mid-leap, a swimmer mid-stroke
and a diver just before she plunges into the water. But when it comes to
Women's Beach Volleyball, photographers seem to focus on certain parts of
the players' bodies more than ...
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Misty May-Treanor takes next step to gold
CBS News
While the Americans take their next step in beach volleyball, Michael
Phelps is set to swim his final individual race of the London Games on
Friday in the 100-meter butterfly. On Thursday night, Phelps won the 200
individual medley for his first individual gold ...
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US men's volleyball team beats Brazil at London Olympics
Los Angeles Times
... sailed high and long, finally settling softly into the crowd of
jubilant fans sitting in his country's colors and flags near the team's
bench. Brazil had merely won the first set Thursday night at Earls Court.
And the U.S. men's volleyball team took note — sort of.
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Olympics-Beach volleyball-British women eliminated
Reuters
(Updates with later matches, quotes). By Estelle Shirbon. LONDON Aug 3
(Reuters) - British women's beach volleyball players Shauna Mullin and Zara
Dampney lost a sudden death play-off on Thursday that ended their Olympic
tournament, while teams from ...
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Olympics: Beach volleyball headed toward US-Brazil showdown
San Jose Mercury News
LONDON -- All four American teams -- two in the men's tournament and two in
the women's -- finished the Olympic beach volleyball round-robin atop their
pools, with defending gold medalists Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser
beating the Czech Republic in ...
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London 2012: Beach volleyball turns Horse Guards Parade into a disco
The Guardian (blog)
This, I hasten to add, is not the beach volleyball, but some pre-match
action. It is a rule here that there must be no gap in proceedings; no
single moment of boredom; the crowd must be involved, clapping, shouting,
Mexican-waving at all times. Since the ...
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