Hello, beach volleyball fans, welcome back to our newest edition of Beach Shorts!
First of all, no, you’re not crazy, today is not Friday yet (unfortunately!). However, with one of the most important tournaments of the season, the European Continental Cup Final, which will qualify one team in each gender for the Tokyo Olympics, starting this Wednesday, we thought that putting Beach Shorts out earlier exceptionally this week would give you guys the best opportunity to follow it from the start.
It will be a busy weekend of beach volleyball in Europe, actually, with national tours taking place in two of the strong nations in the continent, Switzerland and Russia and we bring all the info you need about it too.
Enjoy this early edition of Beach Shorts and warm up for a few long days of beach volleyball.
Continental Cup Final in The Hague
One final Olympic berth in each gender will be in play for European nations between Wednesday and Saturday in the Hague, the Netherlands. Countries that already qualified two teams for the Olympics (and that means Germany and Switzerland among the women and Poland, Russia and Italy among the men) are out and players who already qualified via other methods cannot compete either. But there should be some elite beach volleyball played by the 16 countries in each gender which are in contention over the next few days and here you can find the complete schedule.
