By David OwenCycling at Versailles; fencing in the Grand Palais; and beach volleyball on the Champs de

By Liam MorganThe United States Olympic Committee (USOC) announced today DICK'S Sporting Goods as its latest sponsor. 

USA's future Olympic and Paralympic stars ©Getty ImagesKerri Walsh Jennings, the three-time Olympic beach

volleyball gold medallist, also heralded the agreement between USOC and DICK's and claimed the deal

By Nick ButlerA new website has been launched by World ParaVolley as the organisation continues its ongoing marketing and modernisation drive.

all the latest news from each ParaVolley zone as well as for upcoming major tournaments.Men's sitting volleyball

Although sitting volleyball is the only Para-volley discipline currently on the Paralympic programme,

standing events also take place, as well as beach sitting and beach standing competitions.

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By Emily GoddardTickets for the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games Opening Ceremony have sold out and ones for gold medal events are selling fast, the Organising Committee has revealed.

, with the men's football gold medal game, and aquatics, track cycling, BMX, canoeing and kayaking, beach

volleyball and equestrian jumping events proving particularly popular."

available for the men's baseball and basketball gold medal matches, and the 100 metres, 4x100m relay, beach

and indoor volleyball and rugby sevens finals, as well as for the Closing Ceremony.Tickets for the Cirque

- recalling Olympic champion Bode Miller's horrendous miscued tee-shot in 2012 which hit his wife, beach

volleyball player Morgan Beck, in the eye: 50 stitches, but thankfully no lasting damage thanks to a

By David Owen at the Marriott CasaMagna in Puerto VallartaA budget of $4.4 million (£2.9 million/€3.7 million) for the preparation and delivery of the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in Castries has been submitted to the Government of Saint Lucia.

infrastructural facilities and showcase its natural attributes: athletics, swimming, cricket, netball, beach

volleyball, cycling and tennis.Most sports facilities are in place.Saint Lucia Olympic Committee President

An iconic part of any multi-sport event, volleyball at the Baku 2015 European Games will showcase both

natural and architectural beauty of the host nation, with completion taking place on the sand at the Beach

improving the fortunes of the national teams, and more generally by boosting the popularity of both beach

"This means increased interest from our television broadcast partners, spectators and volleyball fans

Federation's (FIVB) World League competition in 2015, in order to focus on competing in Baku.On the beach

European nation, it was Germany's Chantal Laboureur and Julia Sude who won September's Baku Masters Beach

top level sport will be to the fore next summer, there should also be a key legacy opportunity, with beach

By Duncan MackayPreparations for major events next year dominated the 82nd meeting of the Executive Bureau of the Heads of Olympic Committees of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) held in Kuwait City today.

feature 10 sports - athletics, basketball, bowling, chess, equestrian, handball, shooting, tennis and volleyball

for Human and Environment Affairs at the GCC Secretariat General, were also briefed on the 2nd GCC Beach

Games set to be held in Doha from April 3 to 16.Volleyball will again feature in the 4th GCC Women's

feature seven sports - 3x3 basketball, football, handball, open water swimming, rafting, sailing and volleyball

Committee.Contact the writer of this story at [email protected] storiesApril 2014: GCC Beach

By Paul OsborneThe Union of Professional Coaches and the Scientific Methods Section of the Czech Olympic Committee has hosted its second successful "Bridges" conference.

individual sports disciplines.This second conference saw former football manager Gerard Houllier and beach

volleyball coach Simon Nausch share their expertise and experience with a wide range of top flight coaches

from both team and individual sports.Nausch is coach of one of the best beach volleyball pairs in the

and Kolocova as they gave their own personal experiences in training to become the one of the best beach

volleyball pairs in the world.Houllier is one of the world's most renowned football coaches having managed

initially disappointed I was stuck indoors rather than involved in a journalists versus PR consultants beach

volleyball match, I witnessed the excitement of International Federation after International Federation

delays.• The case of British-Iranian student Goncheh Ghavami, arrested for attending a World League volleyball

strong opinions, in defence of Iran as well as of Ghavami, but after a shaky start, the International Volleyball

and its under fire President Ary S Graça - now accused of corruption during his time at the Brazilian Volleyball

Azerbaijan's beautiful coast makes it the ideal setting for beach sport.

Add in a stunning Beach Arena and fans will be jumping at the opportunity to watch some of the most popular

the European Games Park, and is sure to give the fans exactly what they're looking for.Hosting both beach

soccer and beach volleyball, the venue will be the perfect facility for fans to sit back, relax and

enjoy Europe's elite beach stars compete for the coveted European title.The venue will host 128 athletes

for Beach Volleyball, and 96 for Beach Soccer.

million/€1.27 million) of external funding which will be spread across the clubs, members and the wider volleyball

community, and help build a new beach volleyball centre in Oxford.

National Lottery funding from Sport England's Inspired Facilities fund to build Oxford's first two beach

We are delighted to have secured this investment, which means we can now bring beach volleyball to Oxford

This project, which will take a small area of Council-owned land and turn it into a beach volleyball

facility, promises to make beach volleyball accessible to the Oxfordshire community."

England.Great Britain has competed just twice in volleyball at the Olympic Games, once at beach volleyball's

OsborneDB Schenker has been named official logistics and freight forwarding supporter of the International Volleyball

Volleyball and beach volleyball are truly global sports with a phenomenal following so we are proud to

deliver on time, in full and accurately, and that is what we want to step up and do for the world of volleyball

and beach volleyball."

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By Philip BarkerThe International Olympic Committee's (IOC) 127th Session will be the third time the Olympic family has gathered in Monaco, the smallest member of the Olympic Movement to host a full meeting of the IOC. This "Extraordinary" session at the Grimaldi Forum is for members to vote on President Thomas Bach's blueprint for the Olympic Movement  "Agenda 2020". Now, though, the troubled trail towards the Winter Olympics of 2022 seems certain to cast a long shadow. Stockholm were the first to withdraw followed by the Polish city of Krakow and Lviv in Ukraine. Oslo went through to the Candidate...

Women's football was admitted, along with beach volleyball and mountain biking.

By Nick Butler at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte CarloThe planned schedule for events at Rio 2016 is set to remain unchanged, it has been revealed, despite criticism over the late timing for finals in some sports.

in action on multiple days", she said.Late finals are also a likelihood in other sports, including beach

volleyball,with some matches starting after midnight.But it has also been confirmed that morning finals