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About 100 US athletes unvaccinated at Tokyo 2020, USOPC official reveals

  • Tokyo 2020

About 100 of the United States’ 613-strong team for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics here are unvaccinated against coronavirus, it has been revealed.

United States beach volleyball player Taylor Crabb was ruled out the Olympics after contracting COVID

-19 ©Getty ImagesBeach volleyball player Taylor Crabb and Kara Eaker, who is an alternate on the gymnastics


Defending men’s volleyball champions Brazil want fifth Olympic medal in a row to be gold

  • Volleyball

Having won the men's Olympic volleyball title on home soil in Rio five years ago, defending champions

strengthened by the addition of 2.02 metre opposite hitter Alan Souza, voted MVP at the 2019 International Volleyball

(FIVB) World Cup season, who will be making his Olympic debut.Brazil defeated Poland 3-1 to win the Volleyball

serve.Brazil's inspirational Bruninho is seeking to inspire his team to a successful defence of their men's volleyball

gold at Beijing 2008, are in contention again but coming off a lacklustre performance in the five-week Volleyball


COVID-19-affected beach volleyball tournament set to get underway at Tokyo 2020

  • Tokyo 2020

The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) has confirmed the Czech pair of Markéta Nausch-Sluková

novel coronavirus yesterday, and Barbora Hermannová had been scheduled to open the Tokyo 2020 beach volleyball

 Male beach volleyball player Ondřej Perušič is among the other members of the Czech delegation

be able to play in their opening match on Monday (July 26).American Taylor Crabb is the other beach volleyball

because it's our first Olympics and there's never been a rookie team winning a gold medal in beach volleyball

Beach volleyball at Tokyo 2020 is due to run through to August 7.


Canada select women's sitting volleyball team for Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

  • Volleyball News

Canada's sitting volleyball squad for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics has been confirmed, with members of

I feel so grateful to be a part of Canada's sitting volleyball programme heading to Tokyo 2020 for our

Seven of the sitting volleyball players hail from the province of Alberta ©CDN ParalympicsCanada finished

tournament on home soil in Halifax in February 2020.Canada is ranked fifth in the world in women's sitting volleyball

improve both physically and mentally despite the uncertainties of this past year," said women’s sitting volleyball



Volleyball venue for Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games declared ready

  • Hangzhou 2022

The gymnasium at Hangzhou Normal University, which is to act as the venue for volleyball at the 2022

China are the reigning Asian Games champions in women's volleyball ©Getty ImagesThe venue is 29.7 metres

high - ideal for volleyball - and can seat 8,033 spectators.Two 4K ultra-high-definition screens are



Czech NOC launches investigation as number of Tokyo 2020 COVID-19 positives hits six

  • Tokyo 2020

The Czech Olympic Committee (COV) has launched an investigation into whether members of its delegation for the delayed Olympic Games here adhered to the strict COVID-19 measures after another two athletes tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

Czech beach volleyball player Markéta Nausch-Sluková and cyclist Michal Schlegel today became the latest

Games, which open tomorrow.Nausch-Sluková, who had been due to play in the opening match of the beach volleyball

 Male beach volleyball player Ondřej Perušič and Pavel Širuček, who competes in table tennis, had

next Monday (July 26), while Nausch-Sluková and Hermannová were scheduled to open the Olympic beach volleyball

compete.Chilean taekwondo athlete Fernanda Aguirre, Dutch skateboarder Candy Jacobs and American beach volleyball


Volleyball World enters broadcast partnership with Italy's professional leagues

  • Volleyball

Volleyball World has announced a new partnership with the aim of driving improvements in Italy’s professional

volleyball leagues' media rights deals.

All matches in the men's and women's Lega Pallavolo Serie A will be shown on VBTV, Volleyball World’s

stakeholders".Finn Taylor, chief executive of Volleyball World, claimed that the deal will bring huge

Volleyball World’s mission is to drive commercial growth within the sport by focusing on the volleyball

The women’s and men’s professional volleyball leagues are respectively already among the best women’s

them the chance to watch and enjoy the world’s most appealing women's volleyball league."



IOC clarifies quarantine rules for athletes who test positive for COVID-19 at Tokyo 2020

  • Tokyo 2020

Athletes who test positive for COVID-19 at the delayed Olympic Games here could be freed from their quarantine of up to 10 days if they return consecutive negative results from the sixth day of their isolation period, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed.

19 tests as their quarantine period encompasses the date of their competition.Four of these - beach volleyball

athlete Fernanda Aguirre, Dutch skateboarder Candy Jacobs and American Taylor Crabb, another beach volleyball


Three athletes ruled out of Tokyo 2020 after testing positive for COVID-19

  • Tokyo 2020

Chilean taekwondo athlete Fernanda Aguirre, Dutch skateboarder Candy Jacobs and Czech table tennis player Pavel Širuček have been ruled out of the delayed Olympic Games here after testing positive for COVID-19.

American beach volleyball player Taylor Crabb is also set to miss his event following confirmation that

positive in the Olympic Village.Širuček is the second Czech athlete and third from the country's beach volleyball

kilograms category at the Makuhari Messe on Sunday (July 25), the same day as Crabb's opening men's beach volleyball


Yamanaka re-elected Baseball Federation of Japan President

  • Baseball and Softball

Masatake Yamanaka has been re-elected as President of the Baseball Federation of Japan (BFJ).

and Yuko Arakida, 67, were also appointed as executive directors.Arakida, a gold medallist in women's volleyball