and two female duos remain undefeated after three days of group competition at the International Volleyball

Finals campaign with victory over top seedsJuly 2015: Exclusive: FIVB President Graça hopeful of taking Beach

Volleyball World Championships to LondonJuly 2015: FIVB President Graça reveals new LED net ready for

competition and predicts explosion in volleyball post-Rio 2016July 2015: Barbara and Agatha crowned

women’s beach volleyball world champions after victory in all-Brazilian final

American pairs in both the men's and women's competitions on a day of home success at the International Volleyball

pair after Alison and Bruno defeated the Americans in a three-set gold medal finale last month in Long Beach

Volleyball World Championships to LondonJuly 2015: FIVB President Graça reveals new LED net ready for

competition and predicts explosion in volleyball post-Rio 2016July 2015: Barbara and Agatha crowned

women’s beach volleyball world champions after victory in all-Brazilian finalJuly 2015: Brazil secure

second Rio 2016 spot after two pairs advance to women's Beach Volleyball World Championship final

Leading beer manufacturer Heineken and the Dutch Olympic Committee*Dutch Sports Federation (NOC*NSF) have revealed that the Holland Heineken House (HHH) for Rio 2016 will be located in Ipanema.

rowing competition will take place.This is located in the Copacabana Olympic zone, which includes the beach

volleyball and cycling time trial venues.

Italian duo Daniele Lupo and Paolo Nicolai sprung a surprise on the opening day of the International Volleyball

Friday (October 2).Related storiesJuly 2015: Exclusive: FIVB President Graça hopeful of taking Beach

for competition and predicts explosion in volleyball post-Rio 2016July 2015: Barbara and Agatha

crowned women’s beach volleyball world champions after victory in all-Brazilian finalJuly 2015: 

;Brazil secure second Rio 2016 spot after two pairs advance to women's Beach Volleyball World Championship

finalJuly 2015: Germany's Holtwick and Semmler breeze through at Beach Volleyball World Championship

An official Rome 2024 website has gone live today as organisers seek to boost the publicity surrounding their bid, one of five such attempts to land the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Peter’s Square and finishing under the Arch of Constantine in front of the Colosseum, and beach volleyball

Discussions on adding new sports to the programme for Durban 2022 are due to begin in the next fortnight and be concluded by the beginning of next year, Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) chief executive David Grevemberg has told insidethegames.

sports were proposed as part of the bid: consisting of aquatics, athletics, badminton, basketball, beach

volleyball, boxing, cycling, hockey, judo, lawn bowls, netball, rugby sevens, shooting, squash, table

Preparations for next year's Asian Beach Games in Danang, Vietnam are behind schedule with no budget

until the planned Opening Ceremony in September next year.Wei, a former President of the International Volleyball

.But Vietnam officials repeatedly insisted after that decision how they were still keen to host the Beach

Games preparationsJune 2015: Danang 2016 reveals Asian Beach Games mascot and logoMay 2015: 

lined-up as replacementNovember 2014: Vietnam seeking to emulate success of Phuket at 2016 Asian Beach

GamesNovember 2014: "Outstandingly successful" Asian Beach Games declared closed as attention turns

Volleyball and beach volleyball will be huge successes at Rio 2016, according to the President of the

the state of his sport with a little under a year until the Olympics next summer.Graça attended the beach

second test event to be staged by the FIVB following the World League Finals in July, but the first for beach

volleyball.Action took place at the Olympic venue on the world famous Copacabana Beach, while volleyball

away from the beach will be played next summer in the Ginásio do Maracanãzinho in the Maracana area

“I have no doubt that beach volleyball and volleyball will be a huge success at the Rio 2016 Olympic

The 11th edition of the All-Africa Games are due to open today in the Republic of Congo's capital Brazzaville.

Africa topped the medals table.Despite the opening ceremony being this evening, the badminton, fencing, volleyball

, gymnastics and boxing has already begun.Athletics, basketball, beach volleyball, cycling, football,

A plan to introduce a list of 16 core sports will help make the Commonwealth Games more sustainable, it has been claimed here today. 

including clay target, full bore, clay target, pistol and small bore, Para table tennis, Para triathlon and beach

volleyball. 

Los Angeles’ candidacy for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games features a proposed venue for skateboarding located in the Coastal Cluster, the Bid Committee revealed when publishing new details of their plans yesterday.

months to construct and will be a temporary structure.Other sports to be staged in the area include volleyball

temporary skateboarding venue would be built as part of the Coastal Cluster, which includes Santa Monica beach

is preparing to welcome athletes from 24 countries for the inaugural edition of the Mediterranean Beach

hoping deliver another multi-sport event to a similarly high standard, with 11 events set to be on the Beach

and finswimming are all set to provide spectators with exciting competition and they are joined by beach

handball, rowing beach sprint, water skiing, beach soccer, beach tennis, beach volleyball, open water

swimming and beach wrestling.Competition is set to take place from August 28 to September 8, with

Volleyball Cup was held on August 14 and 15 August at the Stadio del Mare in Pescara, with the competition

Chinese city Hangzhou has submitted an official bid to host the 2022 Asian Games, the Chinese Olympic Committee has announced.

Asian Games ©Getty ImagesMeanwhile Goa, India has reiterated its interest in hosting the 2018 Asian Beach

Association to submit a budgetary proposal for the event in three years’ time.The next edition of the Asian Beach

reduce costs.The event itself attracts athletes from 45 Asian countries and features sports including beach

volleyball, football, handball, kabaddi, sepaktakraw, sailing, windsurfing, paragliding and triathlon.Related

Swimming finals here at next year's Olympic Games will start at 10pm and finish after midnight, it has been confirmed, with preliminary sessions not due to begin until 1pm in order to compensate.

Late night finals are also scheduled in other sports, such as beach volleyball, while 13 athletics finals

Problems with the planned athletics venue look set to force major changes to the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia, insidethegames understands.

infrastructural facilities and showcase its natural attributes.These are: swimming, cricket, netball, beach

volleyball, cycling and tennis.The 2017 Games will be the sixth edition of an event first held in Edinburgh