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European Sports Federations to share €2.5 million for Baku 2015 participation

  • Baku 2015

By Emily GoddardFebruary 5 - European Sports Federations will receive a share from a €2.5 million (£2.1 million/$3.4 million) funding pot for their participation in the inaugural European Games taking place in Baku in 2015, European Olympic Committees (EOC) President Patrick Hickey has revealed.

Getty ImagesSo far seven sports - cycling, shooting, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, triathlon and beach

volleyball - have confirmed they will use Baku 2015 as a qualifying platform for Rio 2016, but other



Mikasa to provide match ball for all International Korfball Federation competitions for next four years

  • Non-Olympic Sports

By Gary AndersonJanuary 6 - Japanese sports firm Mikasa Corporation has renewed its partnership with the International Korfball Federation (IKF) and will supply all match balls for its top events for the next four years.

particularly associated with football, basketball, handball, water polo and volleyball.It was the official volleyball

2012 and Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and has been the official game ball supplier for all International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) volleyball and beach volleyball competitions since 2013.Mikasa were the official ball

suppliers for the volleyball competitions at London 2012 ©Getty Images In March last year,


Glasgow 2014 announces Arena Group as official overlay supplier

  • Glasgow 2014

By Gary AndersonDecember 17 - Arena Group has today been announced as the official supplier of overlay and temporary structures for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.

temporary structures across a number of venues during London 2012, including Horse Guards Parade for beach

volleyball, The Mall for road cycling and St James Park which hosted marathon events.Arena Group provided


Australia to host first World ParaVolley Standing Beach Volleyball World Championship

  • Volleyball News

By Emily GoddardDecember 17 - Adelaide has been named as the host of the historic first Standing Beach

Volleyball World Championship for athletes with a disability set to take place next year.

Having a great history in the discipline of beach volleyball for the able-bodied, Volleyball Australia

is honoured to host the first ever Standing Beach Volleyball World Championship for men with a physical

, which has already staged the Australian Beach Volleyball Championships, will host the first ever Standing

Beach Volleyball World Championship for men with a physical disability in 2014 ©Getty ImagesCouzner

World ParaVolley looks forward to working with Volleyball Australia to ensure the inaugural Beach Standing


FIVB Sports Events Council approves new four-year volleyball calendar

  • Volleyball

By Gary AndersonDecember 14 - The International Federation of Volleyball's (FIVB) Sports Events Council today approved a new four-year events calendar through to 2017 and which will now be considered by the governing body's Executive Committee tomorrow (Sunday) in Lausanne.

take place in Italy from September 23 to October.The dates and venues for the 2014 men's and women's Volleyball

World League running from May 23 to July 20 while the Volleyball World Grand Prix takes place from July

The dates for the Volleyball Club World Championships in 2015 and 2016 have been set for May 5 to 10

World League will take place from May 29 to July 19 followed by the Volleyball World Grand Prix from

eight-year World Cup deal extension with JapanMay 2011: Visa confirmed as title sponsor for FIVB Beach



David Owen: Does a crowded sports world really need the Winter Youth Olympics?

  • Inside the Blogs

never be a truly global event while it is confined to snow and ice sports.Some indoor sports, such as volleyball

Summer Olympic programme.Volleyball and handball seem naturals to make the switch, especially with beach

volleyball able to provide that sport with a continued summer presence.And if squash and netball are


Rugby in schools flourishing as participation continues to rise in build-up to Rio 2016

  • Rugby Sevens

By Gary AndersonNovember 27 - More Brazilians than ever are taking up rugby ahead of the sport's re-introduction to the Olympic Games at Rio 2016, according to the International Rugby Board (IRB), as schools programmes attract more and more youngsters.

one of those trying to gain a foothold for the sport which faces stiff competition from football and volleyball

in the Rocinha and Cantagalo favelas put on fun coaching sessions and games for children on Flamengo beach

insidethegames.bizRelated StoriesOctober 2013: Former England sevens captain Phillips takes part in beach


Baku 2015 Sports

  • Baku Content

Beach Soccer Azerbaijan’s beautiful coast makes the ideal setting

for FIFA’s variant that combines all the fun of the beach with all the improvisation skills of football

Volleyball Some of Europe’s brightest stars in both beach and indoor

volleyball will compete at the Beach Arena and Baku’s iconic seafront landmark, Crystal Hall.

Beach Arena Another outdoor venue that is located immediately adjacent to the


Uchimura and Pettersen take USSA Athlete of the Month awards for October

  • Sports

By Gary AndersonNovember 13 - The United States Sports Academy (USSA) has announced Olympic and world champion gymnast Kohei Uchimura of Japan and world number two golfer Norway's Suzann Pettersen have been chosen as the male and female athletes of the month for October.

also claimed silver in the vault competition and took bronze on the balance beam.Biles compatriot, beach

volleyball player Kerri Walsh Jennings came third in the voting after a month which saw wins for her


Funding crisis may halt Vanuatu women's beach volleyball player's Rio 2016 quest

  • The Big Read

When she was 17, Elwin, already an accomplished beach volleyball player, left her homeland for Vanuatu's

Henriette Iatika, three years her senior, with whom she recently finished ninth in the International Volleyball

told insidethegames, and her concerns have been echoed by Debbie Masauvakalo, President of Vanuatu Beach

Towards the end of 2006 the very first national beach volleyball championship were held," Masauvakalo

In the words of the team's official website: "Playing beach volleyball at an international level has

Beach volleyball is a new sport in Vanuatu.

volleyball is popular, but there is a lot of interest to learn how to play beach volleyball since it

So can Vanuatu's beach volleyball talents make it to Rio?


Exclusive: Vanuatu beach volleyball team facing the end of their Olympic dreams

  • Volleyball

By Mike RowbottomNovember 10 - Vanuatu's beach volleyball team, whose lifestyles and London 2012 ambitions

tears and a huge feeling of loss.Vanuatu's athletes at the London 2012 Opening Ceremony - the women's beach

volleyball team narrowly failed to qualify for the Games despite having come ninth at the Olympic Test

[email protected] storiesNovember 2013: Funding crisis may halt Vanuatu women's beach

volleyball player's Rio 2016 quest


Triple Paralympic champion McFadden heads USOC October Athlete of the Month winners

  • Olympics

By Gary AndersonNovember 7 - Triple Paralympic and six-time world champion Tatyana McFadden picked up the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) female Athlete of the Month award for October after her third marathon victory of the year in Chicago.

the honours list by alpine skier Ted Ligety, who picked up the male Athlete of the Month prize.Bach volleyball

champion Jennings was also a history maker in October after becoming the most successful player in women's beach

volleyball by winning the International Federation of Volleyball (FIVB) Grand Slam in Xiamen, China,


Exclusive: World Beach Games to be launched in 2015 by SportAccord and ANOC

  • ANOC News

By Duncan Mackay at the Arena Sport Complex in St PetersburgOctober 21 - A new World Beach Games is set

Vizer's.Sheikh Ahmad is also President of the Olympic Council of Asia, who have been organising a biannual Beach

and sea already in place, coupled with high potential for tourism and promotion, the hope is that the Beach

attention and quickly establish itself as a fixture on the international calendar.Asia has been hosting Beach

will feature on the programme, which will be a mixture of sports traditionally played on sand - like beach

volleyball and beach football - and others which take place on the water, such as dragon boat racing