They include Drago Jambrecina, who took a building society to court 44 times, Dominic Wy Kanak of the Waverley Council, who launched 40 proceedings against an Olympic beach volleyball stadium at Bondi, Pranay Bhatttacharya and Con Tsekouras.

Beach volleyball, a variation of the game played on sand and with only two players per team, became a FIVB-endorsed variation in 1987 and was added to the Olympic program at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

The history of Olympic volleyball traces back to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, where volleyball was played as part of an American sports demonstration event.

Each of the five continental volleyball confederations has at least one affiliated national federation involved in the Olympic Games.

The U. S. S. R. collected their third Olympic Gold Medal in men's volleyball with a 3 – 1 victory over Bulgaria ( the Soviet women won that year as well, their third gold as well ).

In 1992, underrated Brazil upset favourites C. I. S., Netherlands, and Italy in the men's competition for the country's first volleyball Olympic gold medal.

* Larisa Bergen, Olympic volleyball medalist

The Bulgarian Volleyball Federation is the world's second-oldest, and it was an exhibition tournament organised by the BVF in Sofia that convinced the International Olympic Committee to include volleyball as an olympic sport in 1957.

Some of its venues are the Jack Simpson Gymnasium ( basketball, volleyball ), McMahon Stadium ( football, soccer ), Olympic Oval ( speed skating ), Hawkings Field ( field hockey ), University of Calgary Aquatic Centre ( swimming, often shortened to Aquatic Centre ) and a 200m Running Track ( cross-country and track & field practice ).

* Nicole Branagh, Olympic beach volleyball player

There were two pools at the country club ( one for family and one for adults only ) including an Olympic size pool, replaced now by a volleyball court.

* Lloy Ball, professional volleyball player, Olympic gold medalist, 2008 Summer Olympics

* Lloy Ball, professional volleyball player, Olympic gold medalist, 2008 Summer Olympics

* Elisabeth Bachman, Olympic volleyball player

As a competitor in college athletics, UCF has many notable student athletes, coaches and staff members, such as NFL players Matt Prater, Daunte Culpepper, Kevin Smith, Brandon Marshall, Asante Samuel, Atari Bigby, Mike Sims-Walker, and Josh Robinson, MLS goalkeeper Sean Johnson, NBA starting guard Jermaine Taylor, NASCAR driver Aric Almirola, Olympic beach volleyball player Phil Dalhausser and soccer star Michelle Akers.

* Alexander Butko ( born 1986 ), Olympic volleyball player

Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.

The World Cup was created in 1965 with the purpose of partially filling the gap between the two most important volleyball tournaments, the Olympic Games and the World Championship, which take place in alternating 4-year cycles.

From 1956 to 1988, Bulgaria won an unpredecented 153 Olympic medals and numerous European and world competitions in sports as diverse as volleyball, rhythmic gymnastics and wrestling.

* Makiko Furukawa – Olympic volleyball silver medalist

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* May 4 – John Child, beach volleyball player and Olympic bronze medalist

Charles was a contestant in the Celebrity Poker Club tournament ( 2004 ) on Challenge, where he reached the semi-finals, and in the Channel 4 reality game show, The Games ( 2005 ), which documented the contestants ' intensive training regime and each live Olympic Games-style sporting event, in which he came fourth overall in the men's competition.

A demonstration tournament was also held during the 1932 Winter Olympic Games between four teams from Canada and four teams from the United States, with Canada winning 12 games to 4 .< ref >

There has been a football tournament at every Summer Olympic Games since 1900, except at the 1932 games in Los Angeles.

Currently, the Olympic men's tournament is played at Under-23 level.

A women's tournament was added in 1996 ; in contrast to the men's event, full international sides without age restrictions play the women's Olympic tournament.

The number of teams involved in the Olympic tournament has grown steadily since 1964.

** 1936 Summer Olympics: The United States men's national basketball team wins the first Olympic basketball tournament in the final game over Canada, 19 – 8.

The men's tournament marked the second Olympic Games to feature National Hockey League players in history.

The Olympic football tournament is the only international competition in football organized by FIFA that Brazil has never won, although they have won three silver medals ( 1984, 1988 and 2012 ) and two bronze medals ( 1996, 2008 ).

After taking up the post he moved once again to start a global tournament, but was opposed by the amateur football associations and Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the International Olympic Committee.

From 1996 a Women's Football Tournament has been staged at the Olympic Games ; unlike in the men's Olympic Football tournament ( based on teams of mostly under-23 players ), the Olympic women's teams do not have restrictions due to professionalism or age.

The participation of UK men's and women's sides at the 2012 Olympic tournament was a bone of contention between the four national associations in the UK from 2005, when the Games were awarded to London, to 2009.

* August 26 – United States win the Olympic women's football tournament, defeating Brazil 2-1 in extra time.

* August 28 – Argentina win the Olympic men's football tournament, defeating Paraguay 1-0.

Two weeks later, Morrison took part in the Western Olympic trials in Houston, Texas winning the Heavyweight Title and garnishing the " Most Outstanding Fighter " of the tournament.

Between 1920 and 1968, the Olympic hockey tournament was also considered the World Championship for that year.

Instead of letting a consolidated event disappear for lack of interest, the FIVB decided to change its format in 1991: it would be held in the year preceding, and not following, the Olympic Games ; and it would be considered a first international Olympic qualification tournament, granting the winner a direct berth in the games.

With the tournament now as an Olympic qualifier, there followed three more consecutive victories, in 1991, 1995 and 1999.

* The American Olympic men's ice-hockey team won the United States ' first Olympic hockey gold medal with a record of 7 – 0 – 0 during the tournament.