Round 450,000 followers crammed the stands all through the competitors
On the Olympic Video games Paris 2024, seaside volleyball captivated the world because it took centre stage on the foot of the Eiffel Tower, with round 450,000 followers filling the stands to witness the world’s greatest athletes compete within the biggest present on sand.
The Eiffel Tower’s view of the packed Olympic seaside volleyball venue
Having debuted 28 years in the past on the Olympic Video games Atlanta 1996, seaside volleyball has come a good distance since then. Over the previous 12 years beneath the management of FIVB President Dr Ary S Graça F°, the game has skilled international development by innovation and alternative.
FIVB President Dr Ary S Graça F° commented: “I can’t consider a greater Olympic Video games to mark my final because the President of the FIVB. It’s troublesome to seize the magic of seaside volleyball at Paris 2024 by phrases alone, every little thing from the venues to the smallest grain of sand had been executed to perfection.
“From our unbelievable athletes and passionate followers to the Paris 2024 and FIVB groups making certain the sleek operations of the occasion, it was a real workforce effort. Finally, seaside volleyball was in a position to shine ever so brightly on the worldwide stage at probably the most iconic venues within the historical past of the Olympic Video games.”
New champions rising
This 12 months’s competitors highlighted the game’s rising range. Sweden’s David Åhman & Jonatan Hellvig made historical past by securing their nation’s first-ever seaside volleyball gold. They had been joined on the rostrum by silver medallists Nils Ehlers & Clemens Wickler of Germany and bronze medallists Anders Mol & Christian Sørum.
The lads’s seaside volleyball medallists snap a selfie on the rostrum
In the meantime, within the ladies’s competitors, Brazil’s Ana Patricia & Duda returned their nation to the highest of the rostrum after a 28-year wait. However they had been pushed to the final level by Canada’s Melissa Humana-Paredes & Brandie Wilkerson in what was probably the most carefully contested ladies’s finals within the historical past of the competitors. Finishing the rostrum had been Switzerland’s Nina Brunner & Tanja Hüberli, taking the nation’s second bronze medal.
The ladies’s podium smile brightly in the course of the medal ceremony
Volleyball Experiences join and encourage with Parisian aptitude
Powered by the FIVB and Volleyball Basis, over 300,000 followers had been in a position to benefit from the unique Volleyball Experiences in each volleyball and seaside volleyball venues stuffed with interactive actions.
FIVB Athlete Ambassador Louise Bawden teaching some future seaside volleyball stars beneath the Eiffel Tower
With the assistance of a number of athlete ambassadors, Olympic medallists and world champions from around the globe, in addition to French legends of the sport, followers may calm down within the sunshine beneath the Eiffel Tower whereas studying how one can dig, spike and block on Olympic sand.
Iconic moments
Issues hardly ever get heated in seaside volleyball, however throughout an in depth gold medal match between Ana Patricia & Duda and Melissa Humana-Paredes & Brandie Wilkerson, a quick second of rigidity arose. A lot to the delight of followers and media, the quick-thinking DJ subtle the scenario completely by enjoying John Lennon’s ‘Think about’ to carry smiles again to the gamers’ faces and get the match again on observe within the fun-filled venue.
Gamers gave their all on the court docket, battling fiercely for the gold medal
Each night time on the Eiffel Tower Stadium, followers had been handled to a unprecedented gentle present at one of the best stadium on earth. Strobe lights flooding the sand and stands with color earlier than the Eiffel Tower erupted ablaze with an inferno of shimmering gold towards the night time sky.
A powerful gentle present highlights the Eiffel Tower
Celeb recognizing on the Eiffel Tower Stadium
An array of well-known faces, from sports activities legends and royalty, to honoured visitors from governments and the Olympic Motion, had been noticed on the Eiffel Tower Stadium as they joined within the international celebration.
FIVB President Dr Ary S Graça F° with tennis famous person Serena Williams
Whereas the FIVB diligently wrapped these up for our readers all through the Video games, a few of the standout moments included appearances from French President Emmanuel Macron, Snoop Dogg, American soccer’s GOAT Tom Brady, tennis superstars Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic, NBA nice LeBron James, Legendary French footballer Zinedine Zidane, singer-songwriter Pharrell Williams, and royal relations from Denmark, Jordan, Luxembourg, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain and Sweden.
However to everybody we welcomed, together with over 450,000 followers, thanks for becoming a member of us for the most important celebration of Paris 2024!
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