Sports	Indoor volleyball
Capacity	15,000

Earl's Court is no stranger to hosting Olympic action, as it was the venue for Olympic Boxing, Weightlifting, Wrestling and Gymnastics during the 1948 London Olympic Games.

It will become a 15,000 seater indoor volleyball venue during the Olympic Games, and has recently hosted a number of wrestling events.

Better known as one of London's main venue spaces, it hosts a variety of shows, from food and drinks festivals to HIFI and concerts.

It was also the site of Britain's first supermarket in 1951, which went by the name of Premier.

Earl's Court has been an entertainment venue since Victorian times, when a ground for shows at the site was opened by John Whitley in 1887.

It also hosted a Big Wheel almost 100 years prior to the opening of the London Eye, though this was closed in 1914.

Queen Victoria was among those to have visited the wheel before its closure, and the Earl's Court Exhibition Hall was opened in 1937.

The Olympic Games will bring mainstream sport back to Earls Court for the first time since 1948, bar the wrestling, as has a stage of the Heineken Trophy Tour, when the World Cup visited the venue ahead of its trip to South Africa in 2010.