Best New Year's Wishes

After some months without beachvolley for probably most of us and the beginning of the new year, we can see the new Beachvolleyball season 2013 approaching at the horizon, even if winter will still probably last for some weeks.

And as every season has to be seriously prepared, even on amateur level, the first plannings have to be maid between the partners of a team. Physical preparation, the first steps in the sand and perhaps one or another training camps have to be planned, before getting in the competition phase starting in may / june.

So I wish everybody good inspiration for setting up a nice planning, perhaps still under the Christmas tree and I wish all of you a very successful season with a lot of spectacular points, some tournament wins perhaps and first of all a very healthy and injurefree season.

Happy New Year
and have big fun on the courts !!

Brink-Reckermann win the gold medal in London

The final game between Alison-Emanuel from Brazil and Brink-Reckermann from Germany was decided in 3 intensive sets. After a very tight first set that went to Brink-Reckermann on a score of 23-21, the second set saw the brazilian team come back in the game to decide this set clearly 21-16.

The gold medal therefore had to be played in a 3rd set which saw the german team take a big option on the gold medal by a score of 12-8. But the living legend Emanuel Rego played some strong breakpoints in the attack to tight the score once again at 14-14. But the final coolness of the german led them finally win on a score of 16-14.

Congratulations to Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann for their first olympic

Misty May and Kerry Walsh take the Goldmedal

After a quite clear game between the two american teams Kerry-Ross and May-Walsh, the great experience of Misty May and Kerry Walsh permitted to control the game and to score some breakpoints at half-time of each set to finally win clearly both sets 21-16 to get their 3rd gold medal in a row.

Especially the extraordinary defense of Misty May (15 digs !!) was a solid foundation for triumphing in the fight for gold.

Silver medal goes to Jennifer Kerry and April Ross, who could not take advantage of their stronger services (70 and 77 km/h against 51 and 58 km/h for May-Walsh).

Free live stream Olympia 2012 @ Eurosport

Quite late, but still before the semi-final games, please find here the link to the free live streaming page of Eurosport. Every event of the Olympic games 2012 live and on replay.

So don't miss the upcoming semi-finals and final of the Beachvolleyball competition !!

Enjoy :-)

Beachvolleyball - most beautiful sport on planet !!