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Fears of another Commonwealth Games-style embarrassment as world champs left ‘high and dry’
Volleyball Australia counts the nation’s richest person Gina Rinehart among its major backers, but a lack of government funding risks the nation having to spike another global sporting event.
- by Chris Barrett
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Straight Outta Brumpton
Commonwealth Games
‘Are you kidding me?’: Australia’s beach volleyballers blow up
Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy explain why competing on a makeshift court at a former flea market is “normal” compared to playing on a beach.
- by Andrew Webster
Australia fall short of record gold in beach volleyball final
Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar were trying to win Australia’s first beach volleyball gold medal since Sydney 2000 - but were swept aside by the gun Americans.
- by Malcolm Knox
The Sydney Olympians who drove our beach volleyballers to the gold medal match
Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar destroyed Latvia in two sets to get themselves into the gold medal match.
- by Malcolm Knox
Australia’s beach volleyball team full of confidence after knocking off world champions
Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar are one step closer to their Olympic gold-medal dream as they prepare to face off against Latvia in the women’s beach volleyball semi final.
- by Amelia McGuire
Olympic revenge beckons as Australia’s beach volleyball guns face world champion obstacle
They had gold snatched away from them on the Gold Coast sand, now Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy have the chance for Olympic revenge against Canada’s best in Tokyo.
- by Adam Pengilly
Why beach volleyball players still wear bikinis
No, women are not required to wear bikinis to play beach volleyball at the Olympics.
- by Jimmy Golen
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Tokyo Olympics
Australian men spiked out of beach volleyball but women power on
The Australian women’s volleyball team has surged into the Olympic knockout stages but the men are out, going down to Spain in a must-win final pool game.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
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‘It’s just out of control’: Push to ban volleyball from the beach
Waverley Council officers will hit the beaches for face-to-face feedback about the volleyball nets, which a small group of local residents say have become a hazard.
- by Sarah Keoghan
Iconic Manly beach volleyball event in jeopardy after funding pulled
Volleyball Australia is fuming at the decision from Destination NSW to cut funding for a key Olympic lead-up tournament due to be held early next year.
- by Phil Lutton
Volleyball trucks 500 tonnes of sand to AIS to boost beach medal hopes
Volleyball Australia and the AIS are working on a beach volleyball court design to fast-track development on the sand to chase Olympic medals.
- by Chris Dutton