Beach Volleyball News & Blogs

• WORLD TOURStavanger cancels 2012 World Tour event Posted Friday, March 9, 2012 11:08a ET By International Volleyball Federation Norway promoter World Event regrets to announce on Friday that the Stavanger Grand Slam will not take place in 2012 citing the financial crisis.
• BEACH VOLLEYBALLBritish men face cash shortage in Olympic quest Posted Friday, February 24, 2012 1:49p ET By Associated Press Think beach volleyball, and Britain is probably not the first place that springs to mind.
• BEACH VOLLEYBALLItaly to stage Olympic beach volleyball qualifiers Posted Friday, February 17, 2012 10:36a ET By Associated Press Two final berths in the London Olympic lineups for men's and women's beach volleyball will be decided at a qualification event in Italy.
• BEACH VOLLEYBALLBrazilian teams reshuffle ahead of season Posted Thursday, January 26, 2012 12:18p ET By International Volleyball Federation Beijing 2008 Olympic Games silver medalist Marcio Araujo and 2008 FIVB World Tour champion Pedro Salgado will join forces for the 2012 season, while the latter's two sisters, Carolina and Maria Clara, will split for the first time since 2003 after a number of Brazilian tandems were shaken up ahead of the start of the World Tour.
• DRUG TESTINGWADA suspends Rio lab after false positive Posted Friday, January 20, 2012 11:27a ET By Associated Press The World Anti-Doping Agency has banned a laboratory in the Olympic city of Rio de Janeiro from conducting certain types of tests after it mistakenly accused a beach volleyball player of doping.
• FIVB WORLD TOUREmanuel named men's FIVB Most Outstanding Posted Monday, November 28, 2011 6:12p ET By International Volleyball Federation Capping their world championship season, Brazil's Alison Cerutti and Emanuel Rego were the winners of seven men's post-season awards for the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour.
• FIVB WORLD TOURJuliana named women's FIVB Most Outstanding Posted Monday, November 28, 2011 5:56p ET By International Volleyball Federation Like they did while winning six gold medals in 12 events in 2011, Brazil's Juliana Silva and Larissa Franca dominated the year-end awards for the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour.
• VIEW FROM THE BEACHFIVB serves up nine Grand Slams for 2012 Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2011 4:41p ET By Jon Ackerman, Universal Sports The game of beach volleyball may be struggling here in the U.S., but it appears to be alive and well around the world.
• VIEW FROM THE BEACHU.S. women's Olympic berths all but certain Posted Monday, November 7, 2011 6:22p ET By Jon Ackerman, Universal Sports In 2008, the race for the second U.S. women's berth into the Olympic beach volleyball tournament wasn't decided until a month before the Beijing Games. That won't be the case in 2012.
• FIVB WORLD TOURKessy, Ross saddled with silver to end season Posted Sunday, November 6, 2011 9:00a ET By Universal Sports Americans Jen Kessy and April Ross closed out two of the previous three seasons with titles on the FIVB World Tour, and were in the gold-medal match Sunday at the season-ending FIVB Phuket Open in Thailand playing for another one.
• FIVB WORLD TOURKessy, Ross to face China in Phuket Open final Posted Saturday, November 5, 2011 9:14a ET By Universal Sports With two titles from the FIVB Phuket Open already in their collection, Americans Jen Kessy and April Ross will go for a third on Sunday in Thailand in the FIVB World Tour's final match of the year.