A footvolley star dog is beating Rio beachgoers at their own game

A footvolley star dog is beating Rio beachgoers at their own game

The game is a combination of soccer and beach volleyball. The athlete? A three-year-old border collie named Floki.

  • byDavid Biller

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Brazilian dog becomes a footvolley star
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Brazilian dog becomes a footvolley star

A border collie named Floki plays is a footvolley star,beating Rio beachgoers at their own game.

‘Proud with gratitude’:Olympic Dutch child rapist Steven van de Velde breaks down in tears

‘Proud with gratitude’:Olympic Dutch child rapist Steven van de Velde breaks down in tears

The beach volleyballer admitted he nearly withdrew from the Olympics after the furore over his appearance in Paris

  • byTom Morgan
Brazilians tower at the Eiffel,leaving Aussies beached

Brazilians tower at the Eiffel,leaving Aussies beached

The beach volleyball stadium will be the defining image of the Paris Olympics,but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to play there.

  • byGreg Baum
Fears of another Commonwealth Games-style embarrassment as world champs left ‘high and dry’

Fears of another Commonwealth Games-style embarrassment as world champs left ‘high and dry’

Volleyball Australia counts the nation’s richest person Gina Rinehart among its major backers,but a lack of government funding risks the nation having to spike another global sporting event.

  • byChris Barrett
‘Are you kidding me?’:Australia’s beach volleyballers blow up
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‘Are you kidding me?’:Australia’s beach volleyballers blow up

Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy explain why competing on a makeshift court at a former flea market is “normal” compared to playing on a beach.

  • byAndrew Webster
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Australia fall short of record gold in beach volleyball final

Australia fall short of record gold in beach volleyball final

Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar were trying to win Australia’s first beach volleyball gold medal since Sydney 2000 - but were swept aside by the gun Americans.

  • byMalcolm Knox
The Sydney Olympians who drove our beach volleyballers to the gold medal match

The Sydney Olympians who drove our beach volleyballers to the gold medal match

Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar destroyed Latvia in two sets to get themselves into the gold medal match.

  • byMalcolm Knox
Australia’s beach volleyball team full of confidence after knocking off world champions

Australia’s beach volleyball team full of confidence after knocking off world champions

Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar are one step closer to their Olympic gold-medal dream as they prepare to face off against Latvia in the women’s beach volleyball semi final.

  • byAmelia McGuire
Olympic revenge beckons as Australia’s beach volleyball guns face world champion obstacle

Olympic revenge beckons as Australia’s beach volleyball guns face world champion obstacle

They had gold snatched away from them on the Gold Coast sand,now Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy have the chance for Olympic revenge against Canada’s best in Tokyo.

  • byAdam Pengilly
Why beach volleyball players still wear bikinis

Why beach volleyball players still wear bikinis

No,women are not required to wear bikinis to play beach volleyball at the Olympics.

  • byJimmy Golen