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Beach volleyball enthusiasm and strong winds keep the ball flying
- Updated: August 8, 2016
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 7, 2016 – In many cities around the world, strong winds and the threat of rain would send most people indoors. But not in Rio, where even strong winds did not dampen the enthusiasm of the participants at the Copacourts on the Copacabana beach.
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Copa Courts The highlight of the day was a sitting volleyball match, a sport which will feature on this year’s Paralympic programme. Putting the able bodied players through their paces, was Carlos Barbosa a Brazilian Paralympic sitting volleyball player who competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, finishing 5th.
He was joined by former Brazilian setter Mauricio Lima who won Olympic gold at the Games in Barcelona (1992) and Athens (2004) as well as Serbia’s Vladimir Grbic who was a gold …
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