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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Volleyball was invented in U.S.A. in 1895 and made its first appearance in Canada in 1900 when an Ottawa branch of the YMCA included it in its schedule.[1] The sport caught on and soon spread to YMCAs in Toronto and Montreal. These centers conducted various tournaments, which were, for a long time, the only organized manifestations of the sport in Canada. While the sport spread throughout U.S.A, Russia and the Orient before the First World War, it lay relatively dormant in Canada. With the creation of the Federation Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) shortly after the Second World War, the sport gained international recognition.Canada joined the FIVB(which stands for Federation International de Volley-ball) in 1953, the same year the Canadian Volleyball Association was founded. Gordon Odell served as interim president before Wes McVicar took over as the association's first president. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Women's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was held at Capital Indoor Stadium and Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium from August 9 to August 23, 2008.The twelve competing teams were split equally into two pools of six teams. Each team played all other teams in their pool with the winning team gaining 2 points and the losing side 1 point. The top four teams from each pool progressed through to the quarter-finals. The rest of the tournament was a single-elimination bracket, with a bronze medal match held between the two semifinal losers. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Volleyball Manager is a series of volleyball management simulation games, written by Polish volleyball fans Tomasz Ślusarek and Wojciech Sapiecha and developed since the beginning of 2005. It is a non-profit project and all the games can be distributed only as freeware. The full version of the game was released on 26 September 2007 and is named Volleyball Manager 2007 (currently version 1.12 with squads updated to season 2007/2008). ... Read more