The beach volleyball stadium will be the defining image of the Paris Olympics, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to play there.
The must-see venue of the Paris Olympic Games has made beach volleyball the accidental must-do sport here.
Being there is one thing, playing there another. On Thursday night, Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar lost a semi-final to even more exotically named Brazilian pair Ana Patricia Silva Ramos and Eduardo Santos Lisboa in hard-fought, high-quality three sets. On Thursday night, the Eiffel Tower stadium was literally rocking, but next Monday, the dismantling will begin, and before anyone can say bon voyage, it will again be the Champ de Mars, a place for Parisian revellers on Bastille Day and at New Year.This makes it iconic in two ways. The image of the sandy arena, variously sun-drenched and flood-lit beneath the Eiffel Tower, will live on in television footage, a million smartphone cameras, and postcards – if anyone makes them anymore.
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