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Towel volleyball: towel volleyball is a popular form of outdoor entertainment. The game takes place in a volleyball court, and players work in pairs, holding towels in their hands and attempting to throw the ball into the opponent's field. This version can also be played with blankets held by four people. There are several variations. [54]
The history of Olympic volleyball can be traced back to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, where it was an unofficial demonstration event.Its addition to the Olympic program, however, was given only after World War II, with the foundation of the FIVB and of some of the continental confederations.
1949 – The inaugural women's Volleyball World Championship was held in the Soviet Union, three years after the inaugural men's event. It became the oldest and most important of all the international volleyball events organised by the FIVB. 1949 - Hazel Walker became the first woman to own a professional basketball team, the Arkansas Travelers.
William George Morgan (January 23, 1870 – December 27, 1942) was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette", a name derived from the game of badminton which he later agreed to change to better reflect the nature of the sport. [1]
The most attended volleyball match in Philippine history was the game two of the Premier Volleyball League (PVL) 2nd All-Filipino Conference Finals between the Creamline Cool Smashers and the Choco Mucho Flying Titans at the Araneta Coliseum held on December 15, 2023. It was attended by 24,459 people.
The beach volleyball event was inaugurated in the 2003 edition of the Southeast Asian Games, however the sport was excluded from the games since the 2013 games. It made its return during the 2019 event .
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Allen Guttmann: Women's Sports: A History, Columbia University Press 1992, ISBN 0-231-06957-X; Helen Jefferson Lenskyj: Out of Bounds: Women, Sport and Sexuality. Women's Press, 1986. Helen Jefferson Lenskyj: Out on the Field: Gender, Sport and Sexualities. Women's Press, 2003.