Volleyball – From Beach Fun to Olympic Sport

I Can’t Sleep

Benjamin Boster & Glassbox Media

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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A sport invented for people who hated running? Sounds ideal. We look at volleyball’s history, its Olympic journey, and whether spiking a ball is an acceptable stress-relief method. Looking for more bedtime-friendly content? Visit icantsleeppodcast.com for additional episodes, ad-free listening, and sleep-friendly products. Show Notes: [00:00] - Welcome to the podcast [00:17] - Article overview [03:07] - Origins [05:08] - Refinement and Later Development [07:38] - Rules of the Game [21:01] - Skills Want More? 🔹 Request a topic: https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/request-a-topic 🔹 Listen ad-free & support the show: https://icantsleep.supportingcast.fm/ 🔹 Shop sleep-friendly products: https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/sponsors Wikipedia Attribution: This content is derived from the Wikipedia article on Volleyball, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. Read the full article: Wikipedia - Volleyball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.8	Welcome to the I Can't Sleep Podcast, where I read random articles from across the web to bore you to sleep with my soothing voice.
0:48.4	I'm your host, Benjamin Boster, and today's episode is from a Wikipedia article titled Volleyball.
0:57.8	Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net.
1:04.3	Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team scored under organized rules.
1:12.1	It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964.
1:19.3	Beach Volleyball was introduced to the program at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics.
1:25.6	The adapted version of volleyball at the summer Paralympic games is
1:29.2	sitting volleyball. The complete set of rules is extensive, but play essentially proceeds as
1:37.2	follows. A player on one of the teams begins a rally by serving the ball, tossing or releasing
1:43.6	it, and then hitting it with a hand or
1:45.9	arm from behind the back boundary line of the court over the net, and into the receiving team's
1:52.0	court. The receiving team must not let the ball be grounded within their court. The team may
1:59.0	touch the ball up to three times to return the ball to the
2:02.0	other side of the court, but individual players may not touch the ball twice consecutively. Typically,
2:09.4	the first two touches are used to set up for an attack. An attack is an attempt to direct
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