Volleyball - Copacabana perfect setting for showcase event

By Steve Keating RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - They have played for Olympic gold in parks, next to car parks and on royal parade grounds, but at the Rio Games beach volleyball will actually be played -- on a beach. Only once since the sport became part of the Olympic programme in 1996 has beach volleyball, the most hedonistic of Olympic events, been staged on a genuine stretch of sand shared by sun worshippers and surfers. With the exception of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, when the iconic Bondi Beach