It was a party fit for a king as the Beach Volleyball World Championships came to a close with the

three days here that only happened on one occasion.The idea of a King and a Queen being present at a beach

the constant supply of entertainment throughout matches, both on and off the field of play.The FIVB Beach

Breaks in play were often also met by the addition of the bikini-clad "beach girls", who inevitably met

the venue a couple of small beach volleyball courts were set up in one of The Hague’s six squares to

"This is beach volleyball."

International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) President Ary S.

Graça was speaking at the conclusion of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships here yesterday,

tournament with the finals being held in the floating 5,500-capacity Hofvijver Stadium in The Hague.With beach

Graça claims their will be an explosion of interest into beach volleyball and volleyball post-Rio 2016

even greater interest in both beach volleyball and volleyball.Graça, elected to his current position

After the Games there is going to be an explosion in volleyball and beach volleyball."

Alison Cerutti and Bruno Oscar Schmidt broke Dutch hearts at the end of a thrilling three-set men's Beach

Volleyball World Championship final here tonight, saving six match points before beating Reinder Nummerdor

volleyball world champions after victory in all-Brazilian finalJuly 2015: Brazil secure second Rio 2016

spot after two pairs advance to women's Beach Volleyball World Championship finalJuly 2015: Germany's

Holtwick and Semmler breeze through at Beach Volleyball World Championship, while Brazilians dominate

semi-final line-upsJuly 2015: Filho claims revenge as Dutch defending champions bow out of home Beach

Volleyball World ChampionshipsJune 2015: Three Dutch men's pairings advance to Beach Volleyball World

Barbara Sexias de Freitas and Agatha Bednarczuk won the Beach Volleyball World Championships for the

Volleyball World Championship finalJuly 2015: Germany's Holtwick and Semmler breeze through at Beach

Volleyball World Championship, while Brazilians dominate semi-final line-upsJuly 2015: Filho claims

revenge as Dutch defending champions bow out of home Beach Volleyball World ChampionshipsJune 2015: Three

Dutch men's pairings advance to Beach Volleyball World Championships last 32 in front of home crowdJune

2015: Defending champions Brouwer and Meeuwsen reach knock-out stage of Beach Volleyball World Championships

Brazil secured a second Rio 2016 Olympic beach volleyball berth after two of their pairings advanced

to the final of the Beach Volleyball World Championship here today.

Related storiesJuly 2015: Germany's Holtwick and Semmler breeze through at Beach Volleyball World Championship

dominate semi-final line-upsJuly 2015: Filho claims revenge as Dutch defending champions bow out of home Beach

Volleyball World ChampionshipsJune 2015: Three Dutch men's pairings advance to Beach Volleyball World

in front of home crowdJune 2015: Defending champions Brouwer and Meeuwsen reach knock-out stage of Beach

Volleyball World Championships after second victoryJune 2015: Cuba claim shock win at FIVB Beach Volleyball

Germany’s Katrin Holtwick and Ilka Semmler reached the semi-final phase of the Beach Volleyball World

The Hague.Related storiesJuly 2015: Filho claims revenge as Dutch defending champions bow out of home Beach

Volleyball World ChampionshipsJune 2015: Three Dutch men's pairings advance to Beach Volleyball World

in front of home crowdJune 2015: Defending champions Brouwer and Meeuwsen reach knock-out stage of Beach

Volleyball World Championships after second victoryJune 2015: Cuba claim shock win at FIVB Beach Volleyball

World Championships in The NetherlandsJune 2015: Big names make winning start at Beach Volleyball World

defending men's champions and home favourites Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwse in the last 32 of the Beach

Volleyball World Championship in The Netherlands, two years on from suffering defeat at their hands

”Canada's Heather Bansley and Sarah Pavan advanced to the last 16 of the women's competition at the Beach

Volleyball World Championships in The Netherlands ©Getty ImagesThe Netherlands had started the last

and Meeuwsen reach knock-out stage of Beach Volleyball World Championships after second victoryJune 2015

: Cuba claim shock win at FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in The NetherlandsJune 2015: Big

names make winning start at Beach Volleyball World Championships

Three Dutch men’s pairings advanced to the knock-out phase of the Beach Volleyball World Championships

Pool C.Related storiesJune 2015: Defending champions Brouwer and Meeuwsen reach knock-out stage of Beach

Volleyball World Championships after second victoryJune 2015: Cuba claim shock win at FIVB Beach Volleyball

World Championships in The NetherlandsJune 2015: Big names make winning start at Beach Volleyball World

Defending men's world champions Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen secured their second win of the Beach

Volleyball World Championships in front of their home crowd in The Netherlands.

Ukolova, who have won both of their matches.Related storiesJune 2015: Cuba claim shock win at FIVB Beach

Volleyball World Championships in The NetherlandsJune 2015: Big names make winning start at Beach Volleyball

Cuba’s men claimed a shock victory over Poland of the second day of the Beach Volleyball World Championships

Related storiesJune 2015: Big names make winning start at Beach Volleyball World Championships

The United States’ newly-formed duo Nick Lucena and Theodore Brunner got their Beach Volleyball World

Despite playing three tournaments together on the North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation

NORCECA) Tour in 2013, Lucena and Brunner only joined forces for the first time on the International Volleyball

process so we’ll just take baby steps.”Brazil's Juliana Felisberta is making her first appearance at the Beach

Volleyball World Championships since winning gold alongside fellow countrywoman Larissa Franca in Rome

Russian duo Oleg Stoyanovskiy and Artem Yarzutkin.Related storiesFebruary 2015: FIVB strikes deal with Beach

Germany held their nerve after squandering two match points in the third set of the European Games men's volleyball

defence and more clinical and precise in attack.The Germans are not one of the continent's traditional volleyball

than the second-string line-ups sent by many of their rivals, having withdrawn from the International Volleyball

submission.Related storiesJune 2015: Turkish women unexpectedly dominate Poland to earn European Games volleyball

goldJune 2015: Plavins and Regza deliver Latvia’s first European Games gold in beach volleyballJune

2015: Switzerland seal Baku 2015 women's beach volleyball gold with thrilling win over Austria

Guam National Olympic Committee Chef de Mission Joey Miranda III is expecting the country's athletes to perform better at next month’s Pacific Games than at the previous two editions of the quadrennial event.

 As well as basketball and swimming, Guam’s men and women are due to be represented in beach volleyball

, boxing, golf, shooting, taekwondo, tennis, track and field, triathlon, va’a, volleyball, and weightlifting

The Turkish women’s volleyball team had vowed to “fight” to earn European Games gold here today against

“They didn't play their best volleyball today."

managed to find a silver lining among the clouds: "This was the biggest success for the Polish female volleyball

Related storiesJune 2015: Plavins and Regza deliver Latvia’s first European Games gold in beach volleyballJune

2015: Switzerland seal Baku 2015 women's beach volleyball gold with thrilling win over Austria

The emergence of Vero chairman Mike Lee as an adviser of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games bid makes his book, The Race for the 2012 Olympics, a required text for the new contest.

“All of France’s famous products were backing the bid.”Ditto the “impressive” sports plans, with beach

volleyball scheduled for “a spectacular setting in front of the Eiffel Tower and plans for certain