As Britain’s Rio Olympians were arriving to a reception of heroic proportions this week to mark the nation’s best-ever performance at a foreign Games, Italy’s returning athletes were enjoying a similarly warm welcome upon their return to Rome.

luck.Among those present in the jubilating front section of the Rome-bound plane, as tall as many of the volleyball

Brazilian volleyball star Sergio Dutra Santos has been named as the Most Valuable Player (MVP) in the

Dailymotion will stream more than 680 hours of action from next month’s Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after the company signed an agreement with the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

sports.Athletics, track cycling, football 5-a-side, football 7-a-side, judo, powerlifting, sitting volleyball

Paris 2024 have hailed the French team after they achieved a record medal haul at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

activities alongside local children using a range of equipment.The equipment, including table tennis tables, volleyball

Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes and Rio 2016 President Carlos Nuzman have each been awarded gold Olympic Orders in recognition of their work during the Games which closed here yesterday.

Nuzman, a member of the Brazilian volleyball team at Tokyo 1964 and Brazilian Olympic Committee President

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”.

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

U.S. Paralympics have named their largest-ever delegation for a Paralympic Games with 267 athletes due to represent the country in Rio de Janeiro next month.

athletics, archery, cycling, equestrian, goalball, judo, powerlifting, rowing, sailing, shooting, sitting volleyball

It rained on Rio 2016’s final parade in the Maracanã tonight. The elements drove in, just as a perfect storm of economic and political crises has buffeted the high hopes of those who danced in delight as they were awarded the Games of the XXI Olympiad seven years ago at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Copenhagen.

 The men’s team taking volleyball gold with a final victory over Italy.But the height of Rio excitement

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

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

after a nervy wait as they edged towards glory, Brazil finally got their hands on a third Olympic men's volleyball

China overcame a sluggish start to dispatch Serbia in four sets and claim a third Olympic women's volleyball

earlier loss in the last four.China jump onto the podium in celebration after claiming the women's volleyball

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.

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

A total of five milirary veterans will form part of the United States' 12-man sitting volleyball squad

overseas, and it’s making it tougher to make the Paralympics,” said Stuck, a setter on the sitting volleyball

skiing on one leg just five weeks after the explosion, before he began to pursue a career in sitting volleyball

 The American men's sitting volleyball team have never won a Paralympic medal ©Getty Images“We drove

Games champions, Egypt and Paralympic bronze medallists Germany in Pool A at next month's Games.Sitting volleyball

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

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

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

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

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