By Duncan MackayDecember 17 - Hosting the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games would be an "historic opportunity" to build upon the legacy programme of London 2012, British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Sebastian Coe claimed today. 

table tennis and boxing.George Square, the city's principal civic square, will be turned into beach

volleyball courts with a spectator area if the bid gets the green light.

George Square will host the beach volleyball if Glasgow's bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics is successful

By Duncan MackayNovember 19 - FIFA President Sepp Blatter will continue to try to get futsal or beach

place between Blatter and Carlos Nuzman, the President of Rio 2016, about launching a campaign to get beach

We already tried to bring in beach soccer to the Olympics, as we could use the same stadia they are using

for beach volleyball," said Blatter after the final of the FIFA Futsal World Cup in Bangkok.

By Emily GoddardNovember 15 - Construction of London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic venues injected £7.3 billion ($11.6 billion/€9.1 billion) in to the British economy, according to an independent report commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

cent of the London 2012 construction contracts, like here at Horse Guards Parade, which hosted the beach

volleyball The dossier also shows that construction, as an industry, gained the most jobs from the

By Mike RowbottomOctober 20 - Research by communications agency Threepipe has claimed that London 2012 has so far inspired 8 per cent of people to take up a new sport, with some industry experts indicating that governing bodies need a step-change in their approach to marketing in order to secure their funding and deliver on the promise to "inspire a generation".

Marzena Bogdanowicz, board director of Volleyball England, added: "Volleyball England created Go Spike

Some people may not want to belong to a volleyball club, but do want to go and play every so often, and

The 2012 legacy in terms of facilities is fantastic – for example, we now have 35 permanent, in-land beach

volleyball courts," she said."

By Mike RowbottomOctober 17 - Rio's doping control laboratory, expected to play a major part in Brazil's hosting of the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals and the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, has been reinstated by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) following its partial suspension on January 18.

on samples, the element of its operation which caused it to falsely report last year that Brazilian beach

volleyball player Pedro Solberg Salgado had tested positive for testosterone.The International Volleyball

Macho star of Trapeze, the man who snogged Deborah Kerr on the beach in From Here to Eternity.

Bisexual, Transgender and Inter-sex (LGBTI) Sports Festival, in Kathmandu.Featuring athletics, football, volleyball

By David GoldDebate is now raging over whether London 2012 was the greatest Olympic Games ever. That, ultimately, will be a subjective judgment, to be debated endlessly but with little definitive proof. But what is certain is that this summer's Games used more temporary venues than any other major sporting event in history.

The triathlon took in Hyde Park, beach volleyball was played on the banks of the Thames by Westminster

By Tom DegunSeptember 29 - Greece’s Lambis Nikolaou, the stand-in chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission for the Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games, has praised the Chinese city in their preparations for the event following their inspection visit.

The Sports Park will be home to hockey, BMX, rugby and beach volleyball during the Games before being

By Lauren MatteraBeach volleyball has quickly established itself as one of the most popular sports featured

volleyball venue and support buildings while ensuring the hustle and bustle of London life continued

volleyball temporary venue at Horse Guards Parade takes shapeJoe O'Neill, global head of Overlay and

volleyball venue as having a "high-energy atmosphere", thanks to a lower bowl at courtside level allowing

volleyball venue," pointed out Jeff Burke, business development manager of ES Global Ltd, which specialises

volleyball venue at Horse Guards Parade came and went in just under eight weeks what is certain to remain

By Duncan MackaySeptember 19 - Glasgow 2014 is having to start the search for a new Games Delivery Director after Jacqui Murdoch decided to leave the post to return home to Australia. 

blow as she had been involved in several major events since 2000, when she was the venue manager for beach

volleyball at the Sydney Olympics, including Vancouver 2010, where she the vice-president Games

Karch Kiraly, an American triple Olympic champion, has been named as the United States women's indoor volleyball

-year-old from California, the only man to have won Olympic gold medals in both the indoor and beach

happier with USA Volleyball's decision to select Karch as the head coach of the US women's national volleyball

team," said New Zealander McCutcheon, who has assumed a position as women's volleyball coach at the

He's a great man and a wonderful volleyball coach."

Karch Kiraly (left) succeeds and Hugh McCutcheon (centre) as head coach of the US women's indoor volleyball

By Duncan MackaySeptember 14 - Brazil's athletes are to receive an additional $500 million (£308 million/€382 million) to help them prepare for Rio 2016, where they will be aiming for a place among the top ten in the medals table at the Olympics and top five at the Paralympics.

equestrian, judo, wrestling, swimming, modern pentathlon, taekwondo, tennis, shooting, triathlon, sailing, volleyball

and beach volleyball.The Paralympic sports are: athletics, boccia, canoeing, cycling, wheelchair fencing

consecutive Olympic gold medal and becoming the most successful female player of all time, American beach

volleyball star Misty May-Treanor has announced her retirement from the sport.

achieved the same feat at both Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.They have been described as the greatest beach

Beach volleyball's not going to be my career anymore...it's time for me to be a wife," said May-Treanor

Walsh Jennings (second left) and Misty May-Treanor (right) celebrate winning the London 2012 women's beach

the writer of this story at [email protected] storiesMarch 2011: Beijing Olympic beach

volleyball champions to reunite for London 2012

By Tom Degun at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in London August 23 - Chris Allison, the Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner and national Olympic security coordinator, has revealed that the policing operation for the London 2012 Paralympics will be exactly the same as it was for the Olympics only with a scaled down force.

There are also no central London venues for the Paralympics like there were for the Olympics with beach

volleyball at Horse Guards Parade and the triathlon and open water swimming at Hyde Park so that makes

By Tom DegunAugust 23 - Chris Allison, the Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner and national Olympic security coordinator, has revealed that the policing operation for the London 2012 Paralympics will be exactly the same as it was for the Olympics only with a scaled down force.

There are also no central London venues for the Paralympics like there were for the Olympics with beach

volleyball at Horse Guards Parade and the triathlon and open water swimming at Hyde Park so that makes