Pure Shores
<p>Surrounded by swaying green palm trees and located on the very southern tip of Honolulu, the Outrigger Canoe Club on Waikiki Beach is considered the birthplace of beach volleyball. The story goes that, back in 1915, as a way for Hawaii’s surfers to pass the time when the waves were too tame, swim coach George “Dad” Centre mounted a volleyball net on the sand between the surfboard lockers and the canoe shed. With surfers able to play in their board shorts and barefoot, it proved the perfect distraction until the ocean proved a more willing participant.</p>
<p>Before long, the game was being played by families on California shores, and eventually spread to Europe. Eighty-one years after being casually invented by a man who coached the USA swimming team at the 1920 Games in Antwerp, beach volleyball would itself become an official Olympic sport, when it made its five-ring debut in Atlanta in 1996.</p>
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