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Eurosport teams up with FIVB

The International Volleyball Federation has reached an agreement with Eurosport to provide live coverage of the 2003 Swatch-FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour.

All 22 tournaments on the Swatch-FIVB World Tour, 12 for women and 10 for men will be broadcast live or slightly delayed.

The Swatch-FIVB World Tour this year includes for the first time a four-leg Grand Slam Berlin, Marseille, Klagenfurt (Austria), and Los Angeles. The Tour embraces over 700 athletes from more than 50 countries and this season offers prize money of almost $5m.

Said Angelo Squeo, FIVB Beach Volleyball coordinator: "Beach volleyball is enjoying a tremendous boom throughout the world and this partnership with Eurosport will allow millions more access to the world’s elite players as they contest the top international competition, the Swatch-FIVB World Tour."