Top seeds walk into AVP Long Beach semifinals – World champs struggle
It was a rather relaxed Saturday for the top-seeded men’s teams in Long Beach. In the first event of the AVP Champions Cup Series, 2008 Olympic champion Phil Dalhausser and his partner Nick Lucena posted two straight wins to advance to the semifinal. The number-1...
AVP Legend John Hyden about Hyden Beach, the Wizard of Oz and his new partner
INTERVIEW John Hyden The AVP Legend on Hyden Beach, the Wizard of Oz & his new partner Johy Hyden is just back from the court. Not from training for the upcoming AVP Champions Cup but from coaching a group of girls. John has recently opened his own beach...
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....
Professional beach volleyball resuming in Europe
Europe is currently entering a post-lockdown phase after most of public life had come to a halt in March due to the Covid-19 pandemic. With restrictions being eased in many European countries, beach volleyball in public places has already resumed in some European...
How beach volleyball is coming back in Corona times
We have already given a few examples where and how beach volleyball has been played in recent weeks. Due to the Swedish situation, beach volleyball in Stockholm is rather a “business as usual” thing. In Berlin, official courts had been closed but in public...
