Here’s a question for International Olympic Committee (IOC)-watchers in the interstice between Olympic and Paralympic Games: is it time to reassess Juan Antonio Samaranch? 

but his 56-year-old son, whom I last bumped into commenting approvingly on the venue at the Rio 2016 beach

volleyball stadium on Copacabana beach.I’d like to say Samaranch and I entered the Olympic Movement

Americans Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena to win their second gold medal of the season at the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Long Beach Grand Slam.

of Brazil and Americans Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena will contest the final of the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Long Beach Grand Slam after they beat Latvian and Italian teams respectively in the

and did what we had to do.”The 2016 FIVB World Tour regular season concludes after the event in Long Beach

which is being played on a colourful purpose-built venue at Alamitos Beach adjacent to Marina Green

By turns magical and frustrating in both preparation and execution, the Games of the XXXI Olympiad are now in the record books. International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach chose his words very carefully to describe them.

Down at Copacabana, it was somehow right that there should be a Brazilian gold in beach volleyball.

bronze medallists Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross reached the semi-finals of the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Long Beach Grand Slam after beating two fellow American pairings today.

This tour is so deep and I’m really happy that it’s here in Long Beach for people to see that it’s not

disappointment by winning their final two pool matches on their way to the knock-out round of the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Long Beach Grand Slam.

disappointed with a ninth-place finish and we are working hard to do better than that here in Long Beach

to the sand following the Rio 2016 Games by picking up two pool stage victories at the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Long Beach Grand Slam.

for the latest World Series event.Ross admitted they had struggled in their preparations for the Long Beach

“This is a huge tournament, the ASICS World Series of Beach Volleyball, it’s the best in the world, we're

An “athlete-centred Games” is one of those infuriating clichés always trotted out in Olympic circles, nestling somewhere in between “zero tolerance on doping” and “open and transparent governance”.

Olympics; the Park was soulless in comparison with London 2012 and for every great atmosphere - like at beach

volleyball, football and whenever Brazil won a medal - there was a bleaker venue cluttered with empty

their home Games and the set was complete on the final day of competition at Rio 2016 when their men's volleyball

A boisterous crowd inside the venue, which is known as the spiritual home of Brazilian volleyball, were

for those who had turned out hopeful of seeing the host nation end the Games in golden style, their volleyball

Volleyball is our number one sport because football is a religion" is the popular saying in the South

their team emerged with gold medals in both, with Alison Cerutti and Bruno Oscar Schmidt winning the beach

volleyball crown on the iconic Copacabana Beach earlier this week.Led by prodigal son Neymar, the football

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has claimed no public funding was spent on Rio 2016 and these Games will be remembered as a turning point in leaving a "much better" host city.

exciting events in most of the stadiums", citing this morning's men's singles badminton final as well as beach

volleyball on Copacabana.Bach also predicted ticket sales to rise for the Paralympic Games despite only

for the heartbreak suffered by their female counterparts by emphatically claiming the Rio 2016 men's beach

volleyball title.

of being among the most highly regarded home favourites of these Games.They become the second male beach

volleyball Olympic champion Brazil after Athens 2004 winners Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos.They were

presented with their gold medals by Brazilian International Olympic Committee member and former volleyball

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right) also became a double Olympic champion ©Getty ImagesBrazil's night ended in perfect fashion with beach

volleyball gold ©Getty Images

Germany silenced the home crowd and crushed the hopes of the host nation tonight on Copacabana as Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst won in straight sets over Agatha Bednarczuk and Barbara Seixas de Freitas.

competitor had more than one.It marked further disappointment for the host nation after their indoor women's volleyball

Don’t ask me about Rio de Janeiro because I don’t know the city and I never will, even though I am here to cover the Olympic Games.

such a polarity between this quadrennial, multi-billion dollar bandwagon and its setting.Copacabana Beach

different feeling to it, inhabited by joggers, its beaches genuinely dotted with young people playing volleyball

A Rio resident walked the length of Copacabana beach with me to show me the way to Pyeongchang 2018 House

New Austrian alpine snowboard head coach Ingemar Walder has begun his first season in charge with a training camp filled with various activities.

past days, the team not only took to the River Isel for some white water rafting but they also played beach

volleyball, too, as well as attending strength and endurance training exercises.In addition, a bike

The team not only took to the River Isel for some white water rafting but they also played beach volley