The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Athletes' Commission is set to hold its first-ever elections

is due to open on January 25 and close on January 31.The vote, involving candidates from both beach volleyball

and volleyball, will be held through an online platform.All eligible voters will be given clear instructions

©Getty ImagesThere will be equal gender representation on the Commission and an equal split between volleyball

and beach volleyball representatives.The application process was open to all National Federations to

candidate, and the FIVB has confirmed five female and five male players are in the running.The beach volleyball

Newcastle and Gateshead has announced its intention to bid for the 2026 European Championships, the third edition of the multi-sport event.

cycling, gymnastics, rowing and triathlon will again feature, along with the new additions of beach volleyball

The Japan Sambo Championships and Russian President's Cup have been postponed until July 25, when the Olympics are due to be underway, because of coronavirus concerns.

Championships.July 25 is a Sunday and 3x3 basketball, archery, badminton, basketball, baseball and softball, beach volleyball

hockey, judo, rowing, sailing, shooting, skateboarding, surfing, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, volleyball

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has topped the Burson Cohn & Wolfe Sports (BCW Sports) International Federation (IF) social media ranking.

 The International Volleyball Federation, World Rugby, World Athletics, International Cycling Union

Sustainability is to be the focus of the next year's European Championships in the German city of Munich.

climate-neutral manner and waste reduction were presented as the second and third objectives for organisers.Beach volleyball

cycling, gymnastics, rowing and triathlon confirming their participation for the second edition.Beach volleyball

The Slovenian Paralympic Committee has continued its campaign to showcase how sport can connect people with disability in the build-up to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, by featuring its athletes in a new music video.

Nine athletes are part of the video, including sitting volleyball players Lena Gabršček and Senta Jeler

Papua New Guinea's athletics great Elanga Buala, who won three gold medals at the 1983 Pacific Games in Apia in Samoa, has died at the age of 56.

quarter-finals of the 200 metres.She started her athletics career in 1981 after transitioning from volleyball

Iran sitting volleyball head coach Hadi Rezaei has warned preparation will be key if the team is to retain

Rezaei is seeking to guide Iran to their seventh Paralympic sitting volleyball gold medal at Tokyo 2020

Iran sitting volleyball team have been invited to many tournaments over the past months but we would

Ukraine, Croatia, Latvia and Kazakhstan are set to battle it out for the final place in the men's sitting volleyball

The Cook Island Sports and National Olympic Committee (CISNOC) has welcomed record numbers of participants competing at the Cook Island Beach Games.

2021The Games is featuring the beach versions of 25 sports.Beach soccer is debuting at the Games, while volleyball

Ningbo, one of the cities to host events as part of the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games, has nearly completed construction of its sailing venue for the event.

centre in the city, 140 kilometres away from main host city Hangzhou.Ningbo will also host the beach volleyball

This year's Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) in Thailand have been postponed until March 2022 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

taekwondo, indoor hockey, karate, esports, badminton, pencak silat, cheerleading, sambo, indoor rowing, volleyball

The final men's sitting volleyball qualifying event for this year's Paralympic Games in Tokyo is now

The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) has released its candidate list for the first-ever FIVB

Graça F.There will be equal gender representation on the Commission and an equal split between volleyball

and beach volleyball representatives.The application process was open to all national federations to

platform.Delcio Soares is one of five men on the shortlist for the FIVB Athletes' Commission ©Getty ImagesEight volleyball

and eight beach volleyball players are running to be part of the Athletes Commission.Between them, the

10 World Championship medals.They have collectively participated in 58 World Championships.The beach volleyball

China's national teams have entered a series of winter training camps with a view to preparing for Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualification events or the Games itself.

World Tour events set to begin in Thailand shortly.Xinhua added that China’s national women’s volleyball

All roads will hopefully lead to Tokyo in 2021, but there is another important Olympic destination this year.

Volleyball, judo and roller skating all made their case for Olympic inclusion without success.The bombshell