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  • A cheerleader performs during the women beach volleyball round of 16 match between Germany's Laura Ludwig and Sara Goller against compatriots Katrin Holtwick and Ilka Semmler on The Centre Court Stadium in Horse Guards Parade in London on August 3, 2012, for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Ludwig and Goller won 2-0. (Photo by DANIEL GARCIA/AFP/GettyImages)

  • A cheerleader performs during the men's Beach Volleyball preliminary phase Pool A match Brazil's Emanuel Rego and Alison Cerutti against Italy's Paolo Nicola and Nicolai Lupo on the Centre Court Stadium in Horse Guards Parade in London on August 2, 2012, for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Brazil won 2-0. (Photo by DANIEL GARCIA/AFP/GettyImages)

  • A cheerleader performs during the men's Beach Volleyball preliminary phase Pool A match Brazil's Emanuel Rego and Alison Cerutti against Italy's Paolo Nicola and Nicolai Lupo on the Centre Court Stadium in Horse Guards Parade in London on August 2, 2012, for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Brazil won 2-0. (Photo by DANIEL GARCIA/AFP/GettyImages)

  • Cheerleaders perform during the men beach volleyball preliminary phase Pool C match between Russia’s Konstantin Semenov and Sergey Prokopyev and China's Xu Linyin and Wu Penggen on The Centre Court Stadium in Horse Guards Parade in London on August 1, 2012, during the London 2012 Olympic Games. Russia won 2-1 (Photo by DANIEL GARCIA/AFP/GettyImages)

  • A cheerleader performs during the women's Beach Volleyball preliminary phase Pool A match Brazil's Larissa Franca and Juliana Silva against Hana Klapalova and Lenka Hajeckova from Czech Republic on The Centre Court Stadium in Horse Guards Parade on London on August 1, 2012, for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Brazil won 2-0 (Photo by DANIEL GARCIA/AFP/GettyImages)

  • A cheerleader performs during the men's Beach Volleyball preliminary phase Pool C match Russia’s Konstantin Semenov and Sergey Prokopyev against China's Xu Linyin and Wu Penggen on The Centre Court Stadium in Horse Guards Parade on London on August 1, 2012, for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Russia won 2-1 (Photo by DANIEL GARCIA/AFP/GettyImages)

  • A cheerleader attends the Brazil against Germany's during the women' beach volleyball preliminary phase Pool E match on the Centre Court Stadium at Horse Guards Parade in London on July 31, 2012, for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Brazil won 2-1 (Photo by DANIEL GARCIA/AFP/GettyImages)

  • A cheerleader performs during the men's beach volleyball preliminary phase pool F match between Brazil's Pedro Cunha and Ricardo Santos against Britain's Steve Grotowski and John Garcia-Thompson on The Centre Court Stadium in Horse Guards Parade on London on July 30, 2012, for the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Photo by DANIEL GARCIA/AFP/GettyImages)

  • Cheerleaders perform during the women's beach volleyball preliminary phase Pool B match China's Zhang Xi and Xue Chen against Switzerland's Simone Kuhn and Nadine Zumkher on The Centre Court Stadium at Horse Guards Parade in London on July 30, 2012, during the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Photo by DANIEL GARCIA/AFP/GettyImages)

  • A cheerleader performs during women's beach volleyball preliminary phase Pool D matches of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Centre Court of the stadium in Horse Guards Parade in London on July 29, 2012. (Photo by DANIEL GARCIA/AFP/GettyImages)

  • Cheerleaders perform on the Centre Court of Horse Guards Parade stadium during the men's Beach Volleyball preliminary phase - Pool B match Germany's Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann against Russia's Konstatin Semenov and Sergey Prokopyev during the London 2012 Olympic Games on July 28, 2012 in London. (Photo by DANIEL GARCIA/AFP/GettyImages)

  • Cheerleaders perform at Centre Court of the stadium in Horse Guards Parade during the women Beach Volleyball preliminary phase - Pool B match of the London 2012 Olympic Games, on July 28, 2012. (Photo by DANIEL GARCIA/AFP/GettyImages)

  • Cheerleaders prepare to dance during a practice session at the beach volleyball centre court at Horse Guards Parade on July 25, 2012 two days before the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Photo by DANIEL GARCIA/AFP/GettyImages)


The beach volleyball tournament at the London 2012 Olympic Games is proving to be as popular as ever and it's not just the players who are raising an eyebrow or two.

While teams of two from around the globe spike, bump and block to their heart's content, they are being egged on by a host of cheersleaders, in interesting attire to say the least.

The men's competition runs until August 9th and the women's event until 8th, although the latter stages of the tournament won't feature Great Britain.

Team GB duo Zara Dampney and Shauna Mullin were eliminated from the women's beach volleyball tournament on Friday.

The British pair had a second chance to progress to the last 16 after finishing third in Group F, having lost to Russian duo Evgeniya Ukolova and Ekaterina Khomyakova earlier in the day.

But in their 'lucky losers' game, Dampney and Mullin suffered a straight sets defeat to Austrian sisters Stefanie and Doris Schwaiger.

In the men's event, John Garcia-Thompson and Steve Grotowski crashed out at the hands of Norway's Tarjei Viken Skarlund and Martin Spinnangr.

See slideshow above for shots of the cheerleaders doing their thing in London!

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