Nick Butler: Beach volleyball providing a perfect blueprint for embracing the modern world

Nick Butler: Beach volleyball providing a perfect blueprint for embracing the modern world

For some strange reason, I didn’t receive much sympathy when I told friends I would be unable to see them this weekend because I had been sent on a last-minute trip to Florida for the beach volleyball World Tour Finals.

It may have been something to do with the chance to see some top level athletes compete in one of the last big tests ahead of next year’s Olympic Games. Or, perhaps, it was something to do with a sport which stirs excitement levels probably more than any other, not to mention the prospect of 30 degree-plus heat as temperatures plummet back in Britain…