Birmingham 2022 Beach Volleyball location announced.
This morning in Birmingham the location of the venue for Beach Volleyball has been announced. With two years to go until #Birmingham2022, the announcement that beach volleyball will be hosted in the heart of the city.
Smithfield, previously the site of Birmingham’s Wholesale Markets, is located at the heart of the city centre and will be a crucial venue, creating an urban hub that’s just a short walk from the famous Bullring shopping centre.
The new venue announcement welcomed by the sport that will play there and comes on what would have been the fourth day of sporting action at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, with the prospect of a major multi-sport home Games providing a favourable point on the sporting horizon for Team England hopefuls to set their sights on over the next 24 months.Temporary courts for the two sports have been set up at the site as part of the two years to go celebrations. Commonwealth Games after the sport was added to the Birmingham 2022 programme last summer. The Smithfield site, at the heart of the landlocked city of Birmingham, will provide an interesting contrast to the sport’s first Commonwealth Games appearance on Australia’s Gold Coast, however, organisers revealed that its popularity with a younger audience was one of the main reasons for choosing to add the sport, identifying this as a good fit for a city that is one of the youngest in Europe, with 60% of its residents aged 30 or under.