VOLLEYBALL AND BEACH VOLLEYBALL OLYMPIC PICTOGRAMS UNVEILED

This is how volleyball and beach front volleyball will be depicted at Paris 2024

Volleyball and seashore volleyball will be present at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 with stylish new visible identities. The organisers revealed the 47 unique sports pictograms, every of which is meant as “a badge of honour, symbolizing not only a sporting willpower but also a household, a feeling of pride, a set of values and a group. It is a image of just about every wearer belonging to a picked out sporting relatives, and a sign of affinity with a wonderful and beautiful sporting neighborhood.”

Each pictogram is composed of a few graphical features: an axis of symmetry, a depiction of the floor and a illustration of the sport that it illustrates.

In beach front volleyball, 24 groups per gender, or a full of 48 pairs, will contend at Paris 2024. The competitiveness format for the beach volleyball tournaments at Paris 2024 will stay the identical as the a person used at Tokyo 2020. In each gender, the 24 teams will be break up into 6 pools of four, with the best two in each and every pool in addition two ideal ranked 3rd-placed teams specifically advancing to the round of 16. The four lowest ranked 3rd-put duos will have to go by way of an more “lucky losers” spherical to reduce the groups in rivalry to 16. Single-elimination round of 16 matches, quarterfinals and semifinals will observe prior to the two medal matches establish the places on the podium.

Paris 2024’s seashore volleyball occasions will consider position between 27 July and 10 August at a spectacular 12,000-potential temporary stadium to be created at the foot of the legendary Eiffel Tower.

The men’s staff of Anders Mol and Christian Sorum of Norway and the women’s team of April Ross and Alix Klineman of the United States are the reigning seaside volleyball Olympic champions from Tokyo 2020.

In the meantime, the volleyball tournaments, will be played under a new format. The pool period will consist of three pools of four groups instead than two swimming pools of 6 groups in every gender. The top rated two teams in every single pool and the two best third-placed groups will development to the ultimate section of the tournament, which will continue being the exact as at Tokyo 2020, with quarterfinals, semifinals and then the bronze and gold medal matches.

The volleyball levels of competition at Paris 2024 will be held in between 27 July and 11 August. The matches will be played at the 12,000-capability South Paris Arena #1, section of the Paris Expo, constructed in 1923 to host the Paris Trade Good.

As representatives of the host place, the French men’s countrywide workforce will compete at Paris 2024 in an endeavor to protect the Olympic title they earnt at Tokyo 2020. To be equipped to defend the gold they earned in Japan, the existing women’s Olympic champions, the United states, will have to development by way of the Olympic qualification process to start with.

The sports activities pictograms ended up 1st launched at the Olympic Games Tokyo 1964, which corresponds to the first time volleyball showcased in the Games as an Olympic sport. Listed here is what the volleyball pictogram seemed like some 60 years back: