Already welcoming volleyball

Readers of the blue division web page for the London League men’s division two have been googling Sportsdock after a minor piece about the withdrawal of a team from the bottom division in English volleyball’s competitive pyramid. That’s because Sportsdock is where the team intends to rebuild for next season. That’s legacy – or just a small part of it.

Nobody knows what the Olympic and Paralympic Games are going do for our sport. We have been promised lots of benefits; legacy is the hallmark of the Games, we are assured. They may also bring disappointment; we shall all be very sad if there is a flood of new people wanting to play the game and we don’t have the venues for them to use or the manpower to organise competition for them.

A lot of work has been going on to get London Volleyball ready to take advantage of the additional interest in Volleyball around 2012.

Here Gary Beckford sets out the actions being taken across London.