Team GB supporters will be able to get their hands on tickets for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro tomorrow after the British Olympic Association (BOA) announced the beginning of the online live ticket sales phase.

originally confirmed but not purchased.Key sports such as athletics, track cycling, swimming, rowing, and beach

volleyball enjoyed particularly strong sales in the initial phase and BOA chief executive Bill Sweeney

Lassana Palenfo has been encouraged to stand for what would be a fourth term as President of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA), with the "vast majority" of Executive Committee members reportedly expressing their wish for him to run again.

", it was explained at a meeting in São Tomé and Príncipe, including what will be the first African Beach

insidethegames then that he was confident a similar event would soon be held on his continent.Beach volleyball

is one sport bound to feature at the first African Beach Games ©ANOCAFew concrete details have been

sports by "encouraging African youths to take interest in them".Beach football, beach volleyball and

Secondly, this event will fill a void, as the continent previously had no beach sports event.

Committees (ANOC) President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah has been presented with an International Volleyball

of next year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where the sport is set to be among the highlights in volleyball-mad

“Volleyball has been radically increasing its participation around the world in recent years and for

return to Lausanne early next month for the latest ANOC Executive Council meeting, is likely to see beach

volleyball as an integral part of plans for the inaugural World Beach Games, about which "exciting plans

" are due to be announced at the meeting.The Games, an event set to follow the success of the Asian Beach

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has praised Vanuatu for its rebuilding effort since the devastating impact of Cyclone Pam earlier this year, as he discussed how to distribute the grant of $500,000 (£330,000/€440,000) promised to the Pacific island nation.

visited a hockey and multisport centre catering for basketball, football, futsal, table tennis, boxing, volleyball

editions of the Commonwealth and Pacific Games.No Olympic medals have yet been won, although women's beach

volleyball pair Elwin Miller and Henriette Iatika finished a superb ninth at the 2013 World Championships

set to open first national sport museumNovember 2013: Funding crisis may halt Vanuatu women's beach

volleyball player's Rio 2016 quest

The last thing I expected when being driven back to Durban’s King Shaka airport following the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) Evaluation Commission’s four-day visit was to be questioned by my taxi driver about the political situation in Britain, ahead of the country’s General Election on Thursday (May 7).After providing an over-complicated run-down of how Britain’s political system works, I explained that when the ballot papers are counted and a result is announced it is anticipated another coalition Government will form, with either David Cameron or Ed Miliband in charge.Effectively a marriage of convenience.

Located on the beachfront, where naturally beach volleyball would be held during the Games it has the

Ticket provider Kingdom Sports Group are "thrilled" with the response one month after the opening of its sales window for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, with applications having surpassed those for London 2012 over the same period. 

Not surprisingly, there has been a lot of interest in the beach volleyball at Copacabana.

A nationwide Dutch bid for the second edition of the European Games in 2019 has been confirmed today by the Netherlands Olympic Committee and Sport Federation (NOC*NSF), with Amsterdam, The Hague and Eindhoven, but not Rotterdam or Utrecht, likely to play a role.

This year we will have a beach volleyball world championship in four unique locations throughout the

Olympic champions Jade Jones and Nicola Adams have been named as part of a 153-strong Team GB squad for the first-ever European Games, scheduled to take place in Baku between June 12 and 28.

an opportunity in some sports  to earn qualification for Rio 2016,.These include aquatics, archery, beach

volleyball, boxing, judo, shooting, table tennis, taekwondo, triathlon and wrestling.They will also

The Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) has revealed a stellar list of sporting events which are due to take place in the country this year, including the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics World Championships and the International Boxing Association (AIBA) World Championships.

tennis tour events, a leg of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Cup and International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach Volleyball World Tour in November 2015.QOC director of sport Khaleel Al Jabir

Paris looks set to submit a bid for 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games after receiving backing from its City Hall today. 

Track Cycling World Championships to make case for Paris 2024February 2015: Archery at Invalides and beach

volleyball on Champs de Mars: Paris 2024 study offers insight into Olympic roles for city landmarks

Paris will launch a bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the French capital’s Deputy Mayor Jean-Francois Martins has claimed.

Track Cycling World Championships to make case for Paris 2024February 2015: Archery at Invalides and beach

volleyball on Champs de Mars: Paris 2024 study offers insight into Olympic roles for city landmarksFebruary

A Chef de Mission meeting ahead of the 11th All-Africa Games has been held in the Congolese capital Brazzaville, where participants got the chance to view how preparations for the event were going first hand.

set to be the central hub of the All-Africa Games, are two handball fields, competition grounds for beach

volleyball, an eight-track bowls ground and a venue specifically for beach football.

inspected the Alphonse Massamba Debat Stadium, another multi-sport venue where football, outdoor volleyball

A full competition schedule, including specific session times, has been released for next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

days earlier.The competition is then due to begin on August 6 with events in archery, basketball, beach

volleyball, boxing, cycling road race, equestrian eventing, fencing, artistic gymnastics, handball

, hockey, judo, rowing, rugby, shooting, swimming, table tennis, tennis, volleyball, water polo and

final rounds of the golf at Rio 2016 are scheduled to take place on August 14 and 20 ©Getty ImagesThe volleyball

Bach is a nature killer" and "The city is not for sale" as he left a hotel opposite the Copacabana beach

Rio 2016 have received 1.2 million ticket applications from Brazilian residents since sales began on March 31, it is claimed.

The most popular sports in terms of ticket requests have been volleyball, football and basketball,

with artistic gymnastics, swimming, athletics, tennis, beach volleyball, judo and handball completing