Beach Training

Brasilia Swatch World Tour 2012 Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser have started the season as they finished the last one, winning the Brasilia Swatch World Tour 2012 FIVB event, but they did it the hard way after losing in the second round to Santos-Vitor Felipe. The big surprise was the second placed Fuerbringer and Lucena, [...]

The race for USA’s second Mens Olympic Beach Volleyball qualification place is a tight one, and might come to a head in the play off for 9th in Brasilia! The current FIVB Olympic rankings show Matt Fuerbringer and Nick Lucena on 3,700 points while Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal are on 3,640 points, just 60 [...]

Qualifiers have kicked off in Brasilia. With the women’s draw now complete there have been a couple of interesting results. Firstly two of the three qualifying Dutch teams have made it through, Van der Vlist-Mooren and Meppelink-van Gestel, both upsetting higher seeded teams in the final round. They will join Sanne Keizer and Marleen Van [...]

Here we go! The final year of Olympic qualification. This year the FIVB World Tour will be super charged with every team battling for available Olympic positions. The 2011 World Tour kicked off last week in Brasilia and from first impressions, looks very much like the end of last year. In the Womens, Larissa-Juliana BRA [...]