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1998 European Beach Volleyball Championships
The 1998 European Beach Volleyball Championships were held from August 24 to August 27, 1998, on the island of Rhodes in Greece. It was the sixth official edition of the men's event, which started in 1993, while the women competed for the fifth time. Men's competition Women's competition References Beach Volleyball Results {{Beach Volley EC 1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ... E B B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beach Volleyball
Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two to four players each on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the court. Each team also works together to prevent the opposing team from grounding the ball on their side of the court. Teams are allowed up to three touches to return the ball across the net, and individual players may not touch the ball twice consecutively except after a touch off an attempted block. Making a block touch leaves only two more touches before the ball must be hit over. The ball is put in play with a serve—a hit by the server from behind the rear court boundary over the net to the opponents. The receiving team typically uses their three touches to pass the ball, set it up for an attack, and then attack the ball by sending it back over the net. Meanwhile, the team on defense typically has a blocker at the net and a defe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sona Novaková
Sona may refer to: Places *Sona, Veneto, a comune in the province of Verona in Italy * Soná District, Veraguas, a district within the province of Veraguas, situated in Panama ** Soná, Panama, a town in Soná District, Veraguas, Panama. *Șona, a commune located in Alba County, Romania. *Sona Glacier, a Himalayan glacier situated in the Pithoragarh district in the eastern part of Uttarakhand, India * Sona, Norway, a village in the municipality of Stjørdal in Trøndelag county, Norway ** Sona Station, a railway station on the Meråker Line in the village of Sona * Sona Mosque, a mosque in Chapai Nawabganj district of Bangladesh * Sona College of Technology, a college in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India *Sone River or Sona, second-largest tributary of Ganga river in India Organizations * Society of Nepali Architects Persons * Sona (given name), a list of people with this name * Sona (singer) (born 1973), Armenian singer Film and television *''Sona Chandi'', a comedy-drama televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 In Beach Volleyball
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the Impeachment of Bill Clinton, House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster (1998), Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 February 1998 Afghanistan earthquake, Afghani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
