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Paris 2024 chairman pledges safe Games after latest security scare

  • Paris 2024

Paris 2024 co-chairman Tony Estanguet has pledged to ensure a safe and secure Olympics and Paralympics if the city is awarded them, in light of the latest terror scare in the French capital.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne.Paris' iconic Eiffel Tower, the proposed setting for beach

volleyball competitions, is set to be put behind a 2.5 metre-high wall of reinforced glass to protect


Los Angeles Marathon sign of how athlete and fan friendly 2024 Olympics could be, says Mayor

  • Paris 2024

Mayor Eric Garcetti was among half-a-million spectators to cheer on 24,000 runners in the Skechers Performance Los Angeles Marathon  here  today. 

iconic stadium like Dodger Stadium, go through Rodeo Drive, past Hollywood Boulevard and wind up where beach

volleyball and a million sunsets were all born," Garcetti told insidethegames at the end of the race


Canadians continue FIVB Beach World Tour good form with win in Sydney

  • Volleyball

Canadians Julie Gordon and Camille Saxton have won their second consecutive International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach World Tour tournament in Australia after winning in Sydney today.

the duo were the overall victors at the event held in Shepparton and at the latest leg today on Manly Beach


Shepparton winners reach FIVB Beach World Tour semis in Sydney

  • Volleyball

Canadians Julie Gordon and Camille Saxton remain on course to win their second consecutive International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach World Tour stage in Australia as they reached the semi-finals in Sydney.

the duo were the overall victors at the event held in Shepparton and at the latest leg today on Manly Beach



Bad weather not deterring FIVB World Tour event in Sydney

  • Volleyball

Sydney’s Manly Beach is all geared up for latest leg of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB

) Beach Volleyball World Tour, despite the poor weather.

in Shepparton ©FIVBIt will be the first time a FIVB World Tour event has been hosted at the iconic beach


Top seeds through to semi-finals at FIVB World Tour event in Australia

  • Volleyball

both the men’s and women’s competitions have made it through to the semi-finals of the International Volleyball

Australia’s Jessyka Ngauamo and Becchara Palmer 18-21, 21-19, 15-13.Australia is hosting its first FIVB Beach

third-place play-offs are also scheduled to take place tomorrow.Australia is hosting its first FIVB Beach



Power restored to Maracanã after overdue electricity bill is paid

  • Rio 2016

Power has been restored to the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro after the stadium's managers paid an overdue electricity bill of R$1.3 million (£338,000/$424,000/€400,000).

Tijuca has hosted just one event since the end of the Rio 2016 Paralympics on September 18 - a one-day beach

volleyball competition, staged at the Olympic Tennis Centre despite the standard of the nearby beaches


Liamin and Krasilnikov claim first-ever FIVB World Tour title

  • Volleyball

Russia’s Nikita Liamin and Viacheslav Krasilnikov clinched their first-ever International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach World Tour gold medal as they topped the podium at the event on Iran's Kish Island

three-star competition was for male players only.A law restricting female access was introduced at volleyball


Russians set up meeting with Polish duo in FIVB World Tour semi-finals

  • Volleyball

 will take on Poland's Piotr Kantor and Bartosz Losiak in the semi-finals of the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach Volleyball World Tour event on Iran's Kish Island after both teams won their

conclude with the semi-finals and final tomorrow.A law restricting female access was introduced at volleyball



Mixed day for Iran on opening day of FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour on Kish Island

  • Volleyball

were the only Iranian representatives to win in today's qualification round at the 2017 International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach Volleyball World Tour event on Iran's Kish Island.

, three-star competition is for male players only.A law restricting female access was introduced at volleyball

claimed they have been greatly encouraged by the "small positive steps" taken to allow women to attend volleyball


Commonwealth Games Federation satisfied with progress made by Bahamas 2017

  • Commonwealth Youth Games news

Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) director of sport and International Federation relations Matthew Curtain has claimed the organisation are satisfied with the progress being made before this year’s Commonwealth Youth Games in The Bahamas.

nation’s first-ever international multi-sport event will see 94 medals contested across athletics, beach

soccer, boxing, road cycling, judo, rugby sevens, swimming, tennis and beach volleyball.

soccer, boxing, cycling, judo, rugby sevens, tennis and beach volleyball will be contested at the Games.The

venue at the Games ©Getty Images“This is the first time women’s boxing is on the programme and also beach

soccer and beach volleyball, so this will be the first time that we have full gender equality across


Male only beach volleyball event returns to Iran's Kish Island

  • Volleyball

The 2017 International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Beach Volleyball World Tour is set to continue this

have won Asian Beach Tour titles in Indonesia, Oman and Thailand.Salagh started his career in volleyball

with his best finish coming at the Asian Men's Beach Volleyball Championship in 2011, when he won gold.Partner

Mirzaali has earned one gold, three silver and five bronze medals in his young beach volleyball career.Pourasgari

volleyball events, including three editions of the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) Beach Volleyball

Tour.The sports complex is located at the men's beach area of the island and was rebuilt for the FIVB