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The men's tournament in volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics was the 16th edition of the event at the Summer Olympics, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB, in conjunction with the IOC. It was held in Paris, France from 27 July to 10 August 2024. [1]
The initial spot will be directly awarded to the men's and women's winners, respectively, from the 2023 FIVB World Championships, scheduled for 6 to 15 October in Tlaxcala, Mexico, with the seventeen highest-ranked eligible pairs joining them in the field through the FIVB Olympic ranking list (based on the twelve best performances achieved as a ...
In the men's competition, Brazil won its first gold medal, and the Netherlands its first overall medal in the sport. On 18 September 1993, at the 101st IOC session in Monte Carlo, the Committee voted to add beach volleyball for both men and women to the Olympic programme effective with the 1996 Atlanta Games. [2]
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
Jan. 3—Two-time defending Big West champion Hawaii opens the season tonight against Loyola-Chicago ranked No. 3 in the first AVCA/NVA National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Poll released today.
Since its creation in 1972, this new system has become the standard for the volleyball Olympic tournament, and is usually referred to as the "Olympic format". The number of teams involved in the games has grown steadily since 1964. Since 1996, both men's and women's indoor events count 12 participant nations. Each of the five continental ...
Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic holding the gold medal he won in the men's singles, completing the Career Golden Slam, the Career Super Slam (the second man to do so) and becoming the only man to win all Big Titles in singles. The win also made him the oldest Olympic singles champion since tennis returned to the Games in 1988.
FIVB released the names of the twenty-four teams eligible to compete in the men's Olympic qualification tournaments for Paris 2024 through the federation's world rankings of 12 September 2022 (except France — qualified for the Games as the host nation; and Russia — ineligible because of the country's instigation to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine).