Volleyball


 * Definiton**: Volleyball is an Olympic game where two groups of six players are separated by a net. Each team score a point when the ball hit the others spaces.

Volleyball in the USA remains second only to basketball in terms of team sport popularity, with an estimated 29 million people playing indoor or beach volleyball. In this ever more global economy, the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) continues as the largest international federation in the world. Volleyball is an extremely popular sport in United States and has gained popularity in various other parts of the world. There are around 800 million players of volleyball worldwide. In the year 1895, William G. Morgan, thought to mix the elements of baseball, basketball, tennis and handball into one game.
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He created a game called mignonette, which was later called volleyball. The first game of volleyball was played in the year 1896 at Springfield College. Earlier, the ball of basketball was used for playing volleyball. In the year 1900, a special ball was desi gned for the sport. The ball of volleyball now weighs between 9 and 10 ounces and the ball pressure is between 4.5 and 6 pounds. Five years later, Volleyball also spread to Cuba. This international signified the start of the Volleyball era. Today, volleyball has spread to 211 countries around the world, and is recognized as a truly international, widely played, popular sport.
 * Contries (women) || amount of medals won ||
 * Japan || 6 ||
 * Cuba || 4 ||
 * China || 4 ||
 * Russia || 4 ||
 * Poland || 3 ||
 * United States || 3 ||
 * Czech Republic || 2 ||
 * Peru || 2 ||
 * Korea || 2 ||
 * Brazil || 2 ||
 * Romania || 1 ||
 * Italy || 1 ||
 * Korea, North || 1 ||
 * Serbia and Montenegro || 1 ||

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