Five stars from Spanish football side Valencia were on hand to present over 300 student athletes at the annual Singapore Olympic Foundation (SOF) Scholarship awards ceremony at ITE College East.

Board member Chris Chan.Also present was Logan Tom, United States’ four-time Olympian who claimed volleyball

engaged in community events in the days leading up to the ceremony.Tom spent some time with the national beach

volleyball team at the Singapore Sports Hub, while the Valencia players met recipients and beneficiaries

Rio 2016 claim more than two thirds of Olympic tickets have now been sold following the launching of the process to distribute the four million bought so far to their buyers.

 This is set to include preliminary round action in basketball, volleyball and beach volleyball.Sales

of the continent's 45 National Olympic Committees have so far entered athletes for this year's Asian Beach

completed one month before the Opening Ceremony.Danang 2016 will follow from the successful 2014 Asian Beach

disciplines and 172 events across four venues.These include aquatics sports - marathon swimming and beach

water polo - beach kabaddi, beach soccer, beach volleyball, beach handball, basketball 3x3, beach sepaktakraw

, beach shuttlecock, beach petanque, beach bodybuilding, beach woodball, coastal rowing, beach athletics

and beach martial arts.Wrestling, sambo, ju-jitsu, kurash, pencak silat, vovinam and muay thai will

Los Angeles 2024 vice chairman Janet Evans was on hand at the opening of a new Metro line - which the swimmer claims makes the city more "Games-ready".

Closing Ceremonies, while the Staples Center could host basketball.The journey from Santa Monica, where beach

volleyball, triathlon and open water swimming could be held, to the proposed downtown venues cluster

Tribute has been paid to former Gold Coast 2018 chairman Nigel Chamier by Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) vice-president Bruce Robertson.

We’ve confirmed the largest-ever Parasport programme in Commonwealth Games history, the addition of beach

volleyball to the sports programme and enjoyed the 'Two Years to Go' celebrations.

and Caitlin Ledoux of the United States came from behind to reach the main draw at the International Volleyball

The American duo, competing in their 14th FIVB World Tour beach volleyball tournament, lost the opening

“Irene and I have played together on the beach for three years and we continue to pursue our dreams

“We play some on the Association of Volleyball Professionals tour and we have two wins in NORCECA tournaments

Gold Coast 2018 has appointed a new chairman with former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie being appointed to replace Nigel Chamier to oversee preparations for the Commonwealth Games. 

Beattie's appointment was announced today at an event in Coolangatta to announce the venue for the beach

volleyball attended by current Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Commonwealth

Coolangatta will host beach volleyball when the sport makes its Commonwealth Games debut at Gold Coast

news, said: "The Gold Coast’s beautiful beaches will be a huge draw-card during the Games, but the beach

volleyball at Coolangatta will take things to a whole new level for Gold Coasters and the thousands

England's Zara Dampney was one of many to welcome beach volleyball's addition to the Commonwealth Games

“Coolangatta is a great location for beach volleyball and with the magnificent beach and city skyline

vice president Bruce Robertson added: "With the Gold Coast skyline as its backdrop, we’re certain the beach

Work to construct the beach volleyball venue for this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro has begun

where Olympic matches will take place - as well as five training courts and two warm-up courts.Beach volleyball

medals.Organisers claim that the sport is among the most "in-demand" ticket-wise, behind only athletics, team volleyball

March ©Getty ImagesRio de Janeiro has organised 16 men's tournaments sanctioned by the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) since the first on Ipanema beach in 1987, and nine women's.The first international

Germany’s Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst captured their second International Volleyball Federation

podium placement by a women’s or men’s Finnish team since the start of internationally-sanctioned beach

volleyball events by the FIVB in 1987 for men and 1992 for women.They pair advanced to the final with

The Latvian Olympic Committee (LOC) has hosted talks on sports medicine and anti-doping in its capital Riga.

medal, courtesy of Maris Strombergs in the men's BMX.They won one further medal, a bronze in the men's beach

volleyball thanks to Martins Plavins and Janis Smedins.

The Pacific Games Council (PGC) has unanimously approved extending the amount of sports Australia and New Zealand compete in at the 2019 edition of the event in Tonga, executive director Andrew Minogue has told insidethegames.

weightlifting.Under the changes, the two nations will now also additionally compete in athletics, beach

volleyball and judo, while New Zealand have been granted entry into the football tournament at the

There’s good news and bad at the London Aquatics Centre in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park this month. The bad news - there will be no public access to the gym, fitness classes, competition pool, training pool, diving pool or crèche. The good news - this inconvenience is occasioned by the hosting of the European Aquatics Championships, the last big marker before Rio 2016. The last time this event took place in Britain was 1993.

This arena, with retractable seats for up to 7,500 spectators, regularly hosts basketball, handball, volleyball

But Boggis accepts that some harsh lessons have been there to be learned.The beach volleyball venue in

The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) have announced that the draw for the Rio 2016 Olympic

beach volleyball tournaments will be held at the Gstaad World Tour Major Series event in Switzerland

claimed the second spot when Agatha Bednarczuk and Barbara Seixas won the women’s world title at the FIVB Beach

Volleyball World Championships in The Hague last year.Alison Cerutti and Bruno Schmidt earned the men

the closing qualifying event on June 12.The eligible tournaments include the World Championships, Beach

Volleyball World Tour events and recognised Continental Tour Finals.Five places are also due be awarded

to Continental Cup final winners, as well as the winners and runners-up of the Beach Volleyball World

pairs made it through to the quarter-finals of the women's competition at their home International Volleyball

nbsp;Stockman and Amanda Dowdy.The home success bodes well for Brazilian hopes at Rio 2016, when beach

volleyball is expected to be among the most popular sports.In the men's competition, seven countries