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00822_Field_st25.txt.txt
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While a game like volleyball may
have been played back in the
middle ages, it was invented in its
present form in a YMCA in
Massachusetts in 1895 as a
diversion for middle-aged
businessmen who found
basketball too strenuous.
Missionaries brought the game to
Asia and Russia and American
servicemen introduced it to Europe
during World War I.
Volleyball is a game with simple
rules which requires very little
equipment and therefore it caught
on quickly in most places in the
world -- Asia, Latin America,
Eastern Europe. Only Western
Europe was slow to embrace the
game. Both men's and women's
volleyball was introduced at the
1964 Olympics. Games are
played before wildly enthusiastic
crowds.
The U.S. men's team won
back-to-back Gold Medals, in 1984
and 1988, and the American
women won the Silver at the 1984
Olympics. In 1992, Cuban women
and Brazilian men brought home
the Gold.