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IOC Confirms Olympic Status of Beach Volleyball

Lausanne, Switzerland, 18 January 2001 – The International Olympic Committee has confirmed the status of Beach Volleyball as a full Olympic discipline as from the Olympic Games of Athens in 2004.

In a letter sent this week, Juan Antonio Samaranch, President of the IOC has officially informed Dr. Rubén Acosta, President of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) of the decision taken last month by the Executive Board of the IOC in favour of Beach Volleyball.

‘I am pleased to announce that during the recent meeting of the Executive Board held from 11 to 13 December 2000 in Lausanne, it has been decided to confirm Beach Volleyball as an Olympic discipline’ wrote the IOC President.

The Beach Volleyball discipline of Volleyball has been included in the Olympic programme for the Games of Atlanta in 1996 on a trial measure, the provisional status that Beach Volleyball had conserved for the Sydney Games.

The IOC has taken the decision to officialise the Beach Volleyball as a full Olympic discipline because of the increasingly popular success that it benefits and which has been amply confirmed at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.

For further information contact:

Angelo Squeo
Beach Volleyball Co-ordinator
Federation Internationale De Volleyball
+ 41 21 345 35 35
+ 41 21 345 35 45
beach@mail.fivb.ch