A-Team going for gold – All Brazilian teams eliminated
Gold medal favorites Alix Klineman and April Ross will play the gold medal match at the Tokyo Olympics against Australia’s Artacho Del Solar/ Clancy. On Thursday morning, the US(A-) Team posted an easy win against Switerzland’s Anouk Vergé-Dépré/ Joana Heidrich. The...
Tokyo knock-out round pairings set – Gibb/Crabb facing Germany’s Thole/ Wickler
It was a rough first week at the Olympic beach volleyball event but now the round of 16 parings are complete. After America’s top team Jake Gibb/ Taylor Crabb had to replace Crabb by Tri Bourne, Czech team Marketa Slukova/ Barbora Hermannova could not start at all and...
Doha 4-star kicked off to gather the beach volleyball world elite
After a one-year break, it is the return of the international beach volleyball elite at Doha in Qatar. Last year’s Katara Beach Volleyball Cup was the last big event. Then Covid came. Then a long break. But now the action and the excitement is back. And after all,...
Tokyo 2021 – How the Olympics look like in the post-pandemic world
In March, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics were postponed to July 2021. It was the first peacetime postponement of the Olympic Games in history. Recently, Japanese officials and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) made clear that there will be no further postponement....
Tokyo 2020 postponed – Now is the time to make travel plans!
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have been postponed to 2021. Yesterday, the new dates for next summer were announced. The games will take place pretty much one year later than scheduled, from July 23 to August 8, 2021. Beginning of the year we told you how difficult and...
