The tournament runs August 20 to September 5 in the US and Canada Russia's women are traditionally considered one of the strongest teams in the world

More than 120 years have passed since volleyball was invented – a sport played by more than 800 million people around the world. Volleyball was created by William Morgan, who's a teacher of physical education at one of the colleges of Holyoke (USA). In 1895, at one of his lessons, he hung a net and told the students to throw a basketball over the net. In the 1920s, the national teams of the federations of Bulgaria, the USSR, the USA and Japan appeared...