The countdown is on! With precisely 50 days to go to the beginning of the Olympic Video games in Paris, the anticipation of the volleyball and seaside volleyball tournaments is rising, so let’s check out the newest thrilling updates on the qualification races and what followers can count on within the days forward.
VOLLEYBALL
From 27 July to 11 August, the electrifying volleyball competitors will unfold in Paris on the South Paris Area to crown the sixteenth Olympic volleyball champions in every gender. 12 groups will participate in every of the 2 tournaments to be performed on the South Paris Area.
As normal, the host nation is robotically certified to take part, which signifies that reigning males’s Olympic champions from Tokyo 2020, France could have the chance to defend their Olympic title cheered on by a passionate house crowd in Paris.
One other six groups per gender have already secured their spots on the Video games by the FIVB Highway to Paris Volleyball Qualifiers held in 2023. On the lads’s aspect, the groups of Germany, the USA, Poland, Brazil, Japan and Canada have additionally booked their tickets to the Video games.
France will likely be seeking to defend their Olympic gold on house soil in Paris
In the meantime, on the ladies’s aspect, the Dominican Republic, Türkiye, the USA, Serbia, Brazil and Poland have earned the appropriate to compete at Paris 2024. Tokyo 2020 champions Workforce USA specifically will likely be seeking to defend their first-ever Olympic title.
Workforce USA clinched their first ever girls’s volleyball gold at Tokyo 2020
The ultimate Olympic line-up will likely be formally accomplished with one other 5 groups per gender, based mostly on the FIVB Volleyball World Rankings for girls and for males after the top of the Volleyball Nations League (VNL) 2024 Preliminary Section. Precedence will likely be given to nations from continents that don’t but have groups certified for the Video games to ensure the precept of universality.
Within the Girls’s VNL, the Preliminary Section will finish on 16 June, at which level the best ranked Asian staff and the best ranked African staff will e-book their tickets to Paris. The remaining three vacancies will likely be taken by the best positioned groups within the general rating with out an Olympic berth but.
Per week later, on 23 June, the lads’s Olympic line-up will likely be finalised with the highest African staff, in addition to the 4 highest ranked squads within the common rating that haven’t certified but. The competitors swimming pools will likely be outlined on 19 June for ladies and 26 June for males.
The competitors format for the Olympic volleyball event at Paris 2024
The Olympic volleyball tournaments at Paris 2024 will likely be carried out beneath a brand new competitors system. The competitions will start with the preliminary part, by which the 12 groups per gender will likely be divided into three swimming pools (A, B and C) of 4 groups every. Each staff will play in opposition to the three different groups in its pool. The highest two groups from every pool and the 2 greatest third-placed groups will advance to the Last Section. The Groups Mixed Rating System will likely be used to seed the groups within the Last Section bracket which incorporates the quarterfinals, semifinals after which the finals.
For the primary time within the historical past of the Olympic volleyball competitors, every collaborating staff will likely be entitled to incorporate one non-competing (AP) athlete to function a last-minute alternative, if an athlete is unable to compete because of harm or sickness. Which means that staff rosters will improve from 12 to 13 athletes. The changed athlete won’t be allowed to compete for the rest of the competitors. The ultimate Olympic staff rosters will likely be confirmed on 8 July.
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BEACH VOLLEYBALL
Mark your calendars for 27 July to 10 August, when the Paris 2024 Olympic tournaments will take centre stage on the Eiffel Tower Stadium. Nestled on the foot of the French capital’s most iconic landmark, the non permanent 14,000 capability venue is shortly taking form because it prepares to welcome the world for a seaside volleyball social gathering like no different.
It is going to be the eighth time seaside volleyball has graced the Olympic programme, following the game’s debut on the Atlanta 1996 Video games. The system for the seaside volleyball event at Paris 2024 will stay the identical as in Tokyo 2020.
A complete of 24 groups per gender will compete on the Olympic Video games Paris 2024, with a restrict of two groups per gender per nation. Whereas the 2 groups (one per gender) to symbolize the host nation France are but to be introduced, solely two duos have already formally certified to compete at Paris 2024. These are 2023 Seashore Volleyball World Champions Ondrej Perusic & David Schweiner of Czechia for the lads’s event, and Sara Hughes & Kelly Cheng of the USA on the ladies’s aspect.
The race for the remaining 17 vacancies per gender began initially of 2023, and is about to climax this Sunday with the top of the final tournaments that usher in Olympic qualification factors. The Seashore Professional Tour Ostrava Elite16, specifically, is the one occasion at this level that may have an effect on the qualifiers by the Olympic rating, based mostly on every pair’s greatest 12 performances in qualifying occasions between 1 January 2023 and 10 June 2024. Whereas many of the groups incomes Paris 2024 tickets by the rating are mathematically clear, they are going to be formally confirmed with the ultimate replace of the Olympic rating on Monday.
Among the many groups that will likely be hoping to safe a ticket to the Video games are Tokyo 2020’s champions Anders Mol & Christian Sørum from Norway. In Tokyo, the pair secured Norway’s first seaside volleyball medal of any color.
Mol & Sørum have fun their Olympic gold in Tokyo
In the meantime, Paris 2024 will go with out Tokyo’s champions on the ladies’s aspect, with the USA’s April Ross and Alix Klineman solely just lately again on the sand collectively after each stepping away from the game to turn out to be moms.
Ross & Klineman took gold at Tokyo 2020
Among the many most fun pending inquiries to be answered in Ostrava are these associated to some inner races for the restricted nationwide quota, like these of Switzerland and Germany within the girls’s competitors and of the Netherlands and USA on the lads’s aspect.
There will likely be 5 tickets per gender remaining after Monday. These will go to the winners of every of the 5 Continental Confederations’ last qualification occasions, set be held between 13 and 23 June.
You will need to observe that, as a common precept, quota locations are allotted to the respective Nationwide Olympic Committees (NOCs) and never on to the athletes or groups, and the NOCs are entitled to pick the eligible athletes to compete at Paris 2024 Olympic Video games.
The Drawing of Heaps will likely be held on 28 June on the Champ-de-Mars to determine the seeding and the distribution into swimming pools for the Olympic occasion. The 24 certified groups in every gender will likely be break up into six single round-robin swimming pools of 4 for the primary stage of the Olympic event in Paris.
The six pool winners, the six pool runners-up and the 2 greatest ranked third-placed groups will enter the single-elimination playoffs that finally result in the medal matches on the final competitors day immediately from the playoff within the spherical of 16. The remaining 4 third-placed groups will battle within the ‘fortunate loser’ spherical with the 2 winners to affix the playoff within the spherical of 16.
Keep tuned for extra updates as we strategy the grand opening of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024. The stage is about for a summer season of unimaginable volleyball and seaside volleyball motion!
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