Top seeds Jacob Gibb and Casey Patterson made a successful start to their International Volleyball Federation

Grand Slam and the Vitória Open in Brazil, where they reached the second knock-out round in both FIVB Beach

Volleyball World Tour tournaments."

Qatar Open is the second and last tournament for men only on this year's portion of the 2015-2016 FIVB Beach

Volleyball World Tour, following the event on Kish Island in Iran in February.It is the third straight

impressive development as a team by winning both of their matches on the opening day of the International Volleyball

We didn’t play our best volleyball in the first match and only just won," said Kvamsdal.

Kvamsdal and Sorum are playing in only their fourth FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour tournament

Qatar Open is the second and last tournament for men only on this year's portion of the 2015-2016 FIVB Beach

Volleyball World Tour, following the controversial event on Kish Island in Iran in February.

disciplines set to feature at the inaugural Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) World Beach

surfing and wall climbing.ANOC secretary general Gunilla Lindberg has visited San Diego to the 2017 World Beach

ski, marathon swimming, stand-up-paddle racing, triathlon, wakeboarding, water polo, windsurfing and beach

versions of athletics, handball, tennis, badminton, volleyball and wrestling.Disciplines within sports

still hoping to be added to the programme include rowing and taekwondo, which is holding a first World Beach

Australia’s Chris McHugh and Isaac Kapa defended their Asian Beach Volleyball Championship title after

triumphing in a closely fought final at Manly Beach in Sydney.

“It was really great playing on Manly Beach, in front of such a great crowd.

The Dutch Olympic Committee*Dutch Sports Federation (NOC*NSF) has claimed it is up to the nation’s volleyball

federation to impose a ban on convicted rapist and promising beach volleyball star Steven Van de Velde

to say whether they would issue a ban on the athlete and instead shifted the issue onto the Dutch Volleyball

consent.Sex with anyone below 16 outside marriage is also considered rape according to the law.The Dutch Volleyball

Alison Cerutti and Bruno Oscar Schmidt booked their place in the quarter-finals of the International Volleyball

their pool, were forced to come through a first round tie in this event that is part of the FIVB Beach

Volleyball World Tour.They faced the challenge of Brazil’s Leo Gomes and Rodrigo Vieira Bernat, who

Luciano Ferreira de Paula won an all-Brazilian qualifying match on the opening day of the International Volleyball

What a relief," said Araújo, who won top honours at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in

Maciej Rudol.Poland placed three teams in the "final four" at last week's Rio Grand Slam on Copacabana Beach

The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) have announced the BBC has been awarded broadcasting rights in the United Kingdom for Gold Coast 2018.

viewers in the UK.A total of 18 sports will be contested in Gold Coast between April 4 and 15, including beach

volleyball, which was added to the programme last week.It was also revealed today that the event will

Polish duo Piotr Kantor and Bartosz Losiak sealed their maiden International Volleyball Federation (

FIVB) Beach Volleyball World Tour title as they clinched Rio Grand Slam gold with a straight games victory

over home favourites Evandro Goncalves and Pedro Solberg at Copacabana Beach.

just 31 minutes.Britta Buthe and Karla Borger of Germany were able to end the event at the Rio 2016 beach

volleyball venue on a positive note as they earned bronze with a 21-18, 18-21, 15-10 triumph against

It was rather a shock to emerge from the monotony of a British winter into a dazzling paradise of sun, heat and palm trees when in Los Angeles last week for the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) Media Summit. Or it would have been, had it not been uncharacteristically raining when I first stepped off the plane…

It is a city of firsts, in a sporting as well as a technological sense, with surfing, beach volleyball

architect of the British capital’s success.A beautiful Los Angeles sunset from my vantage point on Venice Beach

Poland could enjoy double success at the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Beach Volleyball

Slam after seeing both a men’s and women’s team advance to their respective finals at Copacabana Beach

champions Alison Cerutti and Bruno Oscar Schmidt battled into the quarter-finals of the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach Volleyball World Tour Rio Grand Slam after earning a tight win over Canada

The top seeded pairing were given a tough test in front of a home crowd at the Copacabana Beach, which

will host beach volleyball competition at Rio 2016, with the Brazilians wrapping up a lengthy opening

American sixth seeds Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena to claim top spot in Pool F at the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach Volleyball World Tour Rio Grand Slam.

The Russian duo, seeded 11th for the tournament on Copacabana Beach, came into the clash with Dalhausser

Strasser provided the biggest shock on the first day of the pool phase of competition at the (FIVB) Beach

Volleyball World Tour Rio Grand Slam.

had advanced through qualifying to reach the main draw of the event, being held on the Copacabana beach

When you play like that against a good team, you have the opportunity to win.”The pool phase of FIVB Beach

Volleyball World Tour Rio Grand Slam on Copacabana beach is due to conclude tomorrow before the knock-out

Russia’s Oleg Stoyanovskiy and Artem Yarzutkin continued their fine form on the (FIVB) Beach Volleyball

place in the main draw of the Rio Grand Slam, which is taking place on the iconic Copacabana beach