PetersburgMay 27 - Honda were today unveiled as the new high-profile sponsor of international professional volleyball

become the title sponsor of the sport's leading events, including this year's Beach Volleyball World

Beach volleyball at Horse Guards Parade was one of the top attractons of London 2012 "This step represents

"Beach volleyball will be the 'poster child' of Rio 2016 played on Copacabana Beach.

Graça now hopes to introduce many of the aspects which have made beach volleyball so popular to the indoor

Beach volleyball has been at the forefront of entertinament," said Payne.

By Duncan MackayApril 30 - Beach football and 3x3 basketball will feature on the programme of the inaugural

badminton, canoeing, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, judo, shooting, table tennis, taekwondo, triathlon, volleyball

By Tom DegunApril 10 - The European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) have announced their beach volleyball

Beach volleyball will make its debut at the Youth Olympics next year as it was not included at the inaugural

By Duncan MackayMarch 22 - British Basketball is to receive more than £7 million to help it prepare for Rio 2016 after UK Sport reversed its decision to axe its funding following last year's Olympics, it was announced today.

initial 12 months.They have been awarded just over £1,008,608 ($1,536,109/€1,182,574), while women's beach

volleyball has had its funding increased from £386,753 ($589,024/€453,460) to £514,000 ($782,822/$€602,655

By Duncan Mackay at the Hotel Eurostars in MadridMarch 18 - Madrid 2020 today hailed the first day of its visit from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Evaluation Commission a success but fears continue that the rest of the inspection could be disrupted by demonstrations.

 The Commission also visited Retiro Park and Las Ventas bull ring which would host the beach volleyball

situated at the Windsor Atlântica Hotel directly opposite the stunning Copacabana beach.The sunlit beach

, filled all day with people, surfing, swimming, sunbathing or playing football or volleyball, provides

The beach itself is surrounded by stunning mountains all the way around and at the top of one of the

the Summer Games to the Winter just gets stronger and stronger, in my view.Switching orthodox indoor volleyball

instant stake in the Winter Games, while allowing the sport to retain a Summer presence in the form of beach

volleyball.

Indoor volleyball would give countries like Brazil and Cuba an instant stake in the Winter Games This

By Tom DegunFebruary 25 - Five-a-side indoor football, known as futsal, could be a good addition to the sports programme at the Commonwealth Games, it has been claimed by the Movement's leading official.

list of optional disciplines.The optional sports for the Commonwealth Games are archery, basketball, beach

volleyball, canoeing, cycling, diving, gymnastics, judo, open water swimming, rowing, sailing, shooting

Surely, it can't be long before even beach volleyball becomes as much a charade as WrestleMania.Want

By James CrookFebruary 13 - The European Beach Tennis Championships will be held in Great Britain for

The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) will collaborate with Beach Tennis UK, who have staged coaching workshops

Tennis is a fun, social sport, and beach tennis is a great example of this." said LTA President Peter

Tazzari and Marco Garavini will be looking to hold onto their crown in Brighton this August"The European Beach

Bonadonna and Eva D'Elia winning the women's doubles.Beach tennis is played on a similar-sized court to beach

volleyball, and players play with paddle-bats and a slightly de-pressurised tennis ball.Regular tennis

By Duncan MackayFebruary 8 - Sports who wanted to be included on the programme for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast have had their hopes dashed after Australian officials revealed that there would be no additions.

Beach volleyball, especially, had been pushing for inclusion, while canoeing, judo and ten pin bowling

By Duncan MackayFebruary 1 - UK Sport today reversed a decision to cut British Basketball's funding following a high-profile campaign waged by leading figures in the sport, including Chicago Bulls superstar Luol Deng.

But several other Olympic sports, including table tennis and indoor volleyball, will remain with zero

, sitting volleyball and wrestling will still receive zero funding despite pleas for a re-think.

 UK Sport will, however, look again at the award it has made to women's beach volleyball, to provide

Britain's volleyball teams competed in the Olympics for the first time at London 2012 but now the future

They cut the head off the chicken with this and I am disappointed for British sport, not just volleyball

By Duncan MackayJanuary 8 - Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas, regarded as the home of bullfighting, will stage basketball if Madrid's campaign to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics is successful, it was revealed today as the Spanish capital today published details of its Candidature file. 

 El Retiro Park, one of Madrid's largest open green spaces, would host beach volleyball, and Estadio

iconic venues has been inspired by the success of London 2012, which used Horse Guards Parade to stage beach

volleyball and Greenwich Park to host equestrian."

By Mike RowbottomDecember 22 - The Madrid testing laboratory has been suspended from carrying out anti-doping analyses for three months by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), and its head of quality control has resigned following a testing anomaly.

full operation in October.The laboratory had initially indicated a positive test against a Brazilian beach

volleyball player, only for the result to be contradicted by the testing of the B sample.The laboratory

By Tom Degun at UK Sport Headquarters in LondonDecember 18 - UK Sport have unveiled their goal for Britain to become the first host nation to better their medal performance at the next Olympics and Paralympics as they unveiled record funding of £347 million ($563 million/€427 million) for Rio 2016 here.

wheelchair fencing, who will not receive funding from UK Sport in the Rio 2016 build-up.Funding for indoor volleyball

and sitting volleyball has also been dropped but funding for beach volleyball will remain.Swimming has