By Nick Butler at The Hilton Hotel in GlasgowA process is underway to reconsider the make-up of the sports programme at the Commonwealth Games, subject to decisions being made next year.

wrestling are among those that have been selected, while the likes of archery, canoeing, tennis and beach

volleyball have not been.Four core Paralympic sports must also be included on the programme, with an

community.This could potentially rule out the consideration of disciplines such as 3x3 basketball and beach

By Gary AndersonBrazilians are being urged to forget about the traumas of their side's 7-1 humiliation at the hands of eventual winners Germany in the 2014 FIFA World Cup and dream about the successes ahead for home athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympics Games in a new advert by Nike.

of the stars featured include Yane Marques, a bronze medal in the modern pentathlon at London 2012,  beach

volleyball sisters Clara and Carol Salgado, Pan American Games champion sprinter Ana Claudia Lemos and

of 17 medals that included golds for Sarah Menezes in judo, gymnast Arthur Zanetti and the women's volleyball

By Emily GoddardFiji has set a budget of more than $2 million (£1.2 million/€1.5 million) to send a team to next 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.Team Fiji Chef De Mission Cathy Wong, who will also lead the team at the

By Nick ButlerVanuatu is using an Olympic Fun Run next Saturday (June 21) as a means to boost interest in Olympic sport with the aim of improving performances at future international events.

athletics, judo and table tennis.It is hoped Vanuatu will compete in more sports at Rio 2016, including beach

volleyball, after the women's pair of Elwin Miller and Henriette Iatika finished a superb ninth at the

2013 International Volleyball Federation World Championships in Poland, although insidethegames revealed

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volleyball player's Rio 2016 questNovember 2013: Exclusive: Vanuatu beach volleyball team facing the

By Nick ButlerOngoing political upheaval in Thailand has taken another sporting casualty with the announcement that the Thai leg of the Asian Tour, the Chiangmai Golf Classic, has been postponed.

Getty ImagesAmong other events due to take place later this year to have already been suspended is a beach

volleyball World Tour event and snooker's Players Championship Grand Finals, which was held instead

There have also been concerns raised that the Asian Beach Games, to be held in Phuket from November 14

wait and see" on whether Grand Finals in Bangkok will go ahead after military takeoverMay 2014: Asian Beach

By Duncan MackayFormer Barcelona and Chelsea star Deco was today cleared of a doping offence by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after they ruled that his test had been mishandled by the laboratory in Rio de Janeiro, which has since been suspended.

testing on samples - the element of its operation which had caused it falsely to report that Brazilian beach

volleyball player Pedro Solberg Salgado had tested positive for testosterone.To read the full CAS judgement

three of the key concepts of Baku 2015, nowhere will these components be better displayed than by a beach

a novel version of the world's most popular sport to the iconic beaches of Baku.Taking place in the Beach

Arena at the Flag Square Venues Cluster where beach volleyball will also be held, the competition is

Although football on a beach is a long-standing part of the so called "beautiful game", a pre-requisite

honing their craft, the game in a competitive sense has grown only in recent years.In 1992 the first beach

the following year, the first professional competition was organised over 2,000 miles away on Miami Beach

teams from the United States, Brazil, Argentina and Italy taking part.Just two years later, the first Beach

Soccer World Championships were held on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, where else, and was won

By Nick Butler International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) President Adhan Sharara has insisted they will "wait and see" how events in Thailand pan out before taking a decision on whether to move the season-ending Grand Finals to a different location.

Bangkok, the national complexion of the military takeover also calls into question whether the Asian Beach

cautious when travelling to the nation.It was announced on May 7 that the Phuket leg of the International Volleyball

2014: Bangkok to host 2014 World Tour Grand Finals despite army imposing martial lawMay 2014: Asian Beach

political instability in ThailandApril 2014: Celebrations held to mark 200 days until Phuket 2014 Asian Beach

By Paul OsborneAn International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Shooting World Cup scheduled to take place in Thailand will not be sanctioned, IPC Shooting has revealed.

sporting events were relocated or cancelled due to the country's current situation.The International Volleyball

2014: Bangkok to host 2014 World Tour Grand Finals despite army imposing martial lawMay 2014: Asian Beach

By Nick ButlerMore details on the qualification system for 18 of the sports to be contested at the European Games in Baku have been released with little more than a year to go until the inaugural event. 

women's boxing aquatics and 3x3 basketball will also be decided through European Championships, while for beach

soccer the standings from the European Beach Soccer League, which is scheduled to conclude with a Grand

Final in Torredembarra, Spain, from August 14 to 17, will be used.Qualification for beach soccer will

shooting and taekwondo, qualification will consist of a rankings period ending on December 31, while for beach

volleyball, judo and badminton, rankings will be formulated from a later date in 2015.Some sports will

By Nick ButlerSporting officials in Thailand have insisted that, despite the cancellation of a beach

volleyball World Tour event last week, other events including the Asian Beach Games later this year will

last Wednesday (May 7) in response to the increase in tension that the Phuket leg of the International Volleyball

Federation World Tour, scheduled for October 15 until 19, would be cancelled.This created fears the Asian Beach

flourishing tourism industry there remains relatively unaffected.It is also claimed that while the volleyball

World Grand Prix in Bangkok from August 15 to 17 and the Asian Girls' Under-17 Volleyball Championship

political instability in ThailandApril 2014: Celebrations held to mark 200 days until Phuket 2014 Asian Beach

political instability in Thailand has led to the cancellation of the Phuket leg of the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) World Tour in October, and raises the possibility of November's Asian Beach Games

Following this the promoters of the FIVB Beach Volleyball Open, scheduled for October 15 until19 on Karon

Beach in the southern part of the island, have informed the FIVB of their decision to cancel the event.The

later this year.Question marks have now been raised over other events in Thailand including the Asian Beach

Games ©Getty ImagesIn particular, the Asian Beach Games is set to take place in Phuket from November

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By Nick ButlerTickets will go on sale tomorrow for the 2014 Sainsbury's Anniversary Games following an announcement that the event will be held in the iconic setting of Horse Guards Parade Ground and The Mall in central London.

event for many top British and international athletes.The Horse Guards Parade landmark, which hosted beach

volleyball during London 2012, will be transformed into a temporary 20,000 capacity venue billed as

what will be "the most striking athletics arena in the world".Beach volleyball took place at Horse Guards

Paralympic Games where 11 Royal Parks hosted competitions from triathlon to equestrian and of course the Beach

Volleyball, it is fantastic to be part of the London legacy," she said."

meaningful and dynamic, with some sports that are not currently in the Olympics such as karate and beach

There will also be beach volleyball, boxing, judo, taekwondo, shooting, gymnastics, wrestling, volleyball

By Nick ButlerApril 28 - Celebrations took place today to mark 200 days-to-go until the 4th Asian Beach

Games in Phuket, an event which has special significance as the forerunner of the inaugural World Beach

A visit was then paid to one of the two main venue clusters on Karon Beach, where marathon swimming,

sailing and windsurfing, as well as handball, volleyball and basketball, will be among the sports to

This was followed by a visit to the second main cluster close to the shopping mall on Patong Beach, where

beach wrestling, muay thai, and jet ski are among seven sports being held, before a visit to the Saphan

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