Opening Ceremony, it was announced that Shauna Mullin and I would represent Team GB in the sport of beach

honour for us because it marked the first time ever that a British pair have featured in an Olympic beach

volleyball tournament since the event made its debut at the 1996 Games in Atlanta.The London 2012 beach

stay healthy and active, then that is yet another fantastic legacy from London 2012.Zara Dampney is a beach

volleyball player who represented Team GB at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

By Duncan MackayOctober 1 - Germany today launched its kit for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics during a special fashion show at Messe Düsseldorf.

London 2012 Olympic beach volleyball champions Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann also attended the event

flown at the Athletes' Village as a lucky charm to their colleagues competing at Sochi 2014.Olympic beach

volleyball champions Julius Brink (second from left) and Jonas Reckermann (fourth from right) handed

By Nick Butler at The Hilton in Buenos AiresAugust 31 - Argentinian football superstar Lionel Messi "felt he ought not to support Madrid 2020", President of the Spanish Olympic Committee Alejandro Blanco has admitted here, as tension between the three cities bidding to host the Games continues to build a week ahead of the decision being made.

venues from Tokyo's 1964 Games.Swimmers in Tokyo Bay near the proposed 2020 venues for triathlon and beach

volleyball as part of an "Aquathlon Organized by the Japan Triathlon Union," which aimed to further

By Duncan Mackay in Rio de JaneiroAugust 27 - Brazil today suffered the embarrassment of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) withdrawing the accreditation from the testing laboratory that is due to play a major role in next year's FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympics and Paralympics for "repeated failures".

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.The only other WADA-accredited

Nanjing Olympic Sports CentreAugust 22 - Athletics could soon appear on the programme of the Asian Beach

ideas he is keen to at least attempt to adapt track and field to the sand in time for the fourth Asian Beach

Other sports have adapted to the Beach Games format, including football at Haiyang  2012The 2014

programme currently includes beach variants of handball, volleyball, football and others alongside water

event at the 2014 Asian Beach Games".Al Hamad's words must therefore come as a boost although the AAA

The Beach Games is a new and unique idea to bring our technical rules to a new area and would be a good

By Nick Butler in NanjingAugust 17 - Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad Al Sabah, President of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), today hailed the pivotal role that sport plays in the life of all people and set out his vision to make its importance even more central in the future.

We are also currently working with Asian Track and Field to develop a unique beach event at the 2014

Asian Beach Games."

The fourth Beach Games are due to be held in Phuket in 2014 and will consist of at least 25 sports including

beach volleyball, beach handball and water skiing and, due to the requirement only of sand, they exist

By David OwenAugust 17 - The UFRJ Rio de Janeiro doping control laboratory should find out early next month if it faces possible revocation of its accreditation, insidethegames has learnt.

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.WADA said that the laboratory

By David OwenAugust 9 - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has suspended the accreditation of the UFRJ doping control laboratory in Rio de Janeiro just 10 months before the 2014 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to get under way in Brazil.

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.The Rio 2016 Organising

Biel has beat off competition from eight other cities to be named as the host of the 2016 European Volleyball

Confederation (CEV) Beach Championships.

Switzerland is a country that is known for being fond of beach volleyball and this cooperation will be

instrumental to the development of beach volleyball in this country as the young generations will be

volleyball in our country."

volleyball player Sascha Heyer – winner of four European medals, including gold in 2001, plus silver

As an athlete, beach volleyball has been my life for more than 20 years," Stern said."

By Gary AndersonJuly 22 - A joint study carried out by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the University of Cape Town at the London 2012 Paralympic Games has revealed football five-a-side, powerlifting, goalball, wheelchair fencing and wheelchair rugby as the sports with the highest injury rate.

disability.Contact the writer of this story at [email protected] StoriesJune 2013: Beach

volleyball tops London 2012 illness table

My route to becoming an elite beach volleyball player was perhaps not the most orthodox one.In 2008,

volleyball programme and made I my debut at the Under 21 World Championships in 2009 before competing

volleyball courts in Loxford Park, which thanks to London 2012, now have over 840 tonnes of the very

sand used at Olympic Games beach volleyball competition at Horse Guards Parade.I'm hopeful that by using

volleyball tournament was one of the show stealers of the Olympic Games with that stunning temporary

By James CrookJune 26 - World university sport governing body FISU have secured a deal with sports network ESPN which will see Kazan 2013 become the first Universiade to be broadcast live in the United States.

4x200m freestyle relayThe coverage will focus mainly on basketball, water polo, swimming, athletics, beach

volleyball and volleyball.The United States finished fifth in the overall medal table at the last Summer

By James CrookJune 21 - The nine highest achievers in their respective sports in the Australia Uniroos squad travelling to the 2013 Universiade in Kazan, the "High Flyer"', have participated in a mind and body camp to put them in great shape to go for glory in Russia next month.

serves as a consultant for the Australian Rugby Union, who gave them nutrition tips and advice.Uniroos beach

volleyball player and 'High Flyer' Hamish Moore said: "The 'High Flyers' camp was an exceptional two

of injury, be an Olympic archer or a canoeist; while to avoid illness you might be better off giving beach

volleyball a wide berth.

canoeing (2.7 per cent) and track cycling (three percent).Comfortably the biggest risk for illness was beach

volleyball - at nearly 19 per cent - 61 per cent of these cases were reported to be "respiratory infections

By Duncan MackayJune 3 - International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) President Ary Graça has expressed

his disappointment that no major beach volleyball event will be played in London this year due to lack

Volleyball England have finally conceded defeat after spending several months trying to raise commercial

funding agency last December to axe all financial support for Britain's indoor, sitting and men's beach

volleyball programmes in the build-up to Rio 2016."

FIVB President Ary Graça is disappointed that there will be no beach volleyball event in London this

supportive because they recognise how hard we've worked to make it happen," Callicott told BBC Sport.Hosting beach