Italy won the women's volleyball title Sunday at the South Paris Arena, beating the USA 3-0. The top-ranked team claimed its first Olympic medal in the sport with a dominant display of technical skill against the six-time Olympic medallists USA.

Sweden took gold against Germany on Saturday in Paris in just over half an hour. The Germans settled for silver and Norway took bronze against Qatar.

The US men's volleyball team secured the bronze medal on Friday with a decisive 3-0 victory over Italy. This marks the sixth medal in the history of the American men's team and their third bronze. They previously claimed gold in 1984, 1988, and 2008.

The teams from Brazil and Canada will face on Friday for the Gold in the women's beach volleyball final, while in the men's category the final, the next day, will be between Germany and Sweden.

Women's beach volleyball favourites Brazil resolutely ended the Olympic hopes of their Latvian opponents in the women's quarter-finals Wednesday, continuing their unbeaten streak in a defiant Paris Games.

France and Poland are set to face off in the men's volleyball final at the Olympics. Both teams have showcased exceptional skill and determination throughout the tournament, setting the stage for a thrilling showdown.

The women's national volleyball teams of Brazil and the United States will face each other on Thursday, 8 August after winning in their respective quarterfinals on Tuesday while Italy will take on Turkiye in the other semi-final.

Spain's men's and women's beach volleyball teams had a good day in the finals that were played throughout this Monday. Both women's Alvarez-Moreno and men's Herrera-Gavira won, lamenting the public and the country about the chances of getting a medal in the coming days.

Italy reaffirmed their status as gold medal contenders with a convincing 3-0 win over Turkey at the Paris Arena South 1 to go through to the quarter-finals unbeaten. France went out of the tournament without a win or a set after losing 3-0 to the United States.

Fans booed a Dutch beach volleyball player, convicted of raping an underaged girl, as he played his first match at the Paris Olympics, thrusting the sport into the spotlight due to his controversial selection.

Steven van de Velde, a beach volleyball player who was convicted in 2016 of raping a 12-year-old girl will be isolated from his teammates at the Paris Olympics and banned from talking to the media.

Volleyball Australia issued a public apology on Thursday for creating an "environment of fear" that saw some players self-harm and others turn to substance abuse, with the impacts still felt decades later. The sport's governing body acknowledged that former athletes with the Australian indoor women's team, some as young as 14, were subjected to punitive training methods and body-shaming.

The Volleyball Nations League (VNL) 2024 concluded with a resounding triumph last month, as the Men's VNL Finals in Lodz, Poland, marked the culmination of a season that set new standards in both global viewership and attendance.

The International Olympic Committee said it had no role in Dutch volleyball's decision to pick a convicted child rapist for the Paris Games: a selection criticised by several athlete advocacy organisations. Last month the Dutch Olympic Committee selected beach volleyball player Steven van de Velde --who was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl in 2014-- to represent the country in the Olympic Games.

Three-time Olympic medallist Jordan Larson has come out of retirement to play in her fourth Olympiad. The 37-year-old retired after leading the US Team to a long-awaited gold medal at the Tokyo Games. Yet after a divorce and some serious soul-searching, Larson finds herself back on the national team and headed to Paris.