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Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. [1] It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964.
The USA Volleyball Domestic Competition Regulations (DCR), formerly published annually, is now published on a two-year cycle as of the 2009 season. The DCR is based on FIVB rules for both indoor and beach volleyball, while incorporating modifications for domestic play in the United States.
There are a number of ways in which 9-man rules differ from traditional Volleyball rules. As only men can play 9-man, during international tournaments, such as the NACIVT, women play by six-player Volleyball rules. Rotating: Players in 9-man do not rotate as in traditional volleyball. As such, players tend to specialize in two or three positions.
The United Arab Emirates Volleyball Association has been recognised by FIVB from 1976 and is a member of the Asian Volleyball Confederation [2] and the Arab Volleyball Association. The Federation organizes all domestic volleyball competitions for men [3] and women [4] as well it rules over Beach Volleyball activities in the country for both ...
Even those states that do sanction volleyball for both sexes typically have considerably fewer schools sponsoring the boys' game and thus fewer participants. Of the remaining 12 high-participation girls' volleyball states, only California, with over 45,000 girls and about 25,000 boys, had even half as many boys competing as girls.
The International Volleyball Federation commonly known by the acronym FIVB (Fédération Internationale de Volleyball). Is the international governing body for all forms of volleyball . [ 3 ] Its headquarters are located in Lausanne , Switzerland, and its current president is Fabio Azevedo of Brazil.
A technical time-out in volleyball and beach volleyball is a time-out stipulated by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) in each non-tie-breaking set. It is the formalized equivalent of a television timeout in other sports:
Snow volleyball is a winter sport played by two teams on a snow court divided by a net. Originating as a variant of beach volleyball, the rules of snow volleyball are similar to the beach game, [96] with the main differences being the playing surface, the scoring system and the number of players. As in the beach version, matches were originally ...