The 2016 Summer Olympic Games begin next Friday, but sports fans might be drawn to a game taking place outside of the Olympics on the beaches of Rio. It is footvolley. And, as the name implies, it's a ...

The border collie named Floki plays footvolley, a combination of soccer and volleyball, on Leblon beach in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado) By DAVID BILLER Associated ...

Amid the sun, sand and sexy bodies on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, a Brazilian named Octavio de Moraes invented footvolley. The sport — beach volleyball without using your hands but employing ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Rio de Janeiro’s main beaches bustle with commotion on sunny weekends. But activity ground to a near standstill on one stretch of sand. People held up their phones to record athletic ...

Footvolley – a mix of beach volleyball and soccer – was born on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s as a way around laws banning soccer on the sand. The Yaaz Footvolley Tel Aviv-Jaffa League is ...

Floki the border collie has taken over the internet for his athletic skills Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously ...

It’s an emerging, hip beach sport that fuses volleyball and soccer. That means dives, dunks and spikes with the feet, chest, head, thighs and shoulders — anything but the hands. And it’s a natural fit ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Rio de Janeiro’s main beaches bustle with commotion on sunny weekends. But activity ground to a near standstill on one stretch of sand. People held up their phones to record athletic ...

Amid the sun, sand and sexy bodies on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, a Brazilian named Octavio de Moraes invented footvolley. The sport — beach volleyball without using your hands but employing ...

Footvolley is a sport played like it sounds: A volleyball is kicked around like soccer with no hands. The U.S. and other countries are sending teams to Brazil, but it's not an Olympic sport yet. The ...