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Traditional six-a-side indoor volleyball is referred to at the Olympic Games as volleyball. So the Olympic sport of volleyball has two disciplines - beach volleyball and volleyball. Both disciplines follow the same basic skills, and the flow of play follows similar lines: one team serves, the other tries to win the rally - or 'side-out' - with a pattern of dig, set, spike within the requisite three touches.
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For further details contact:

British Volleyball Federation
Suite B, Loughborough Technology Park
Epinal Way
Loughborough,
Leicestershire
LE11 3GE

Tel: 01509 631 699
Web: www.britishvolleyball.org

Fédération Internationale de Volleyball
Web www.fivb.ch

 

Beijing Olympics medal table

 Country
  G      S      B     T  
China    
51 21 28 100
USA
36 38 36 110
Russia
23 21 28 72
Team GB
19 13 15 47
Germany
16 10 15 41

To view full medal table, click here. To view all Team GB medallists click here.


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Andy Murray

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Andy Murray
  • Date of Birth: 15/05/1987
  • Lives: Wandsworth, London

The British number one will compete in both the singles and, alongside his brother Jamie, in the doubles for Team GB in Beijing.

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