By Emily GoddardAn outline of the competition schedule has been released for next year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. 

two 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 weightlifting

By Emily GoddardA commemorative book to celebrate the centenary of the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) has been launched.

headquarters.The launch event was attended by Brazilian athletes, both past and present, including beach

volleyball stars Emanuel Rego, Evandro Junior, Juliana Felisberta, Maria Elisa Antonelli, Adriana Samuel

and Pedro Cunha, volleyball players Giovane Gávio, Marcus Vinícius Freire and Bernard Razjman, handball

By Emily GoddardFiji has staged a National Sports Science Conference ahead of this year's Pacific Games in Port Moresby.

, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, rugby sevens, triathlon, touch rugby, va'a, indoor and beach

volleyball and weightlifting.Contact the writer of this story at [email protected]

By Liam Morgan at the Lemigo Hotel in KigaliLamine Diack, President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), has given his backing to Paris' increasingly-likely bid to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 

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By Liam Morgan in KigaliA series of sporting events to mark International Women's Day have been held here by the Rwanda National Olympic and Sports Committee (RNOSC), with "break the silence against sexual violence" the key theme.

be held as 35 women competed in a 10 kilometres race, before both men and women took part in a mixed beach

volleyball event.A mixed mini football competition rounded off the day as mixed teams of boys and girls

those who shifted between events like bobsleigh and luge, cross-country skiing and biathlon, indoor and beach

volleyball, and swimming and water polo.

By Daniel EtchellsGeorges Guelzec, the President of the European Union of Gymnastics, has given his backing to Paris' ever more likely bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 

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Robert Scheidt has returned from every one of his five Olympic regattas with a medal - two of them gold, Beach

volleyball players Sandra Pires and Jackie Silva would surely be popular as would the appearance of

the women's volleyball team, gold medallists in Beijing and London.

By Michael PavittThis year's Volleyball World League Group 1 Finals will be played at the Maracanãzinho

The Finals will also act as the test event for the volleyball competition for the 2016 Olympics which

will be held in the same venue, the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) confirmedVolleyball has

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The venue tour also consisted of a visit to the site for the Beach Arena, a temporary construction which

will stage beach soccer and beach volleyball, while the spectacular multi-purpose Crystal Hall could

Eurovision Song Contest in 2012, the venue is undergoing an upgrade ahead of Baku 2015, where it will host volleyball

By Emily GoddardThe International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) has signed two major deals today, with

Beach Major Company coming on-board to further boost beach volleyball's entertainment offering, while

marketing, event management and media experience to three Major Series events and the Beach Volleyball

to ensure that the FIVB's beach volleyball events are a memorable spectacle for fans around the world

Copacabana Beach will be the stage for beach volleyball at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games ©Getty ImagesGraça

Finally, today we are announcing the renewal of the relationship between beach volleyball and one of

Beach Major Company chief executive Jagerhofer added that the new partnership will "push beach volleyball

By Michael PavittThe Oman Olympic Committee (OOC) have announced that they will hold their Ordinary General Assembly on March 31, following a Board meeting in Muscat.

that the Sheikh Saif al Hosni will head the Omani delegation at the second Gulf Cooperation Council Beach

named the Chef de Mission for the event that will take place from April 2 to 9, with competitions in beach

football, beach volleyball, 3x3 basketball, sailing and swimming all set to feature at the Games.The

By Daniel EtchellsThe European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) has unveiled a new mobile app, allowing

media portfolio with a YouTube channel the following month ahead of the ongoing 2014-2015 CEV DenizBank Volleyball

Stars in Motion" videos, highlighting the best action from CEV competitions, and a variety of other volleyball

and beach volleyball videos.Users of the European Volleyball Confederation mobile app will have access

Rainer Geier said: "We are happy that we continue to expand our long-term cooperation with the European Volleyball

By David OwenThe political leader of the region surrounding Paris has seized on today's opening of the 2015 International Cycling Union (UCI) Track Cycling World Championships at the Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines to highlight the French capital's case for hosting the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics.

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Liam MorganBaku 2015 today confirmed the list of 25 participating countries who will compete in the beach

volleyball event at the inaugural European Games.

volleyball at the European Games ©Baku 2015"Beach volleyball is a modern Olympic discipline gaining

The sport is due to take place at The Beach Arena, a temporary facility that volleyball will share with

beach football.Both sports will use surrounding courts to the main arena for competition.The main beach

The European Games will allow beach volleyball to gain new fans in Azerbaijan and across Europe," he

The beach volleyball competitions, scheduled to take place June 16 to 21, are expected to be extremely