By David GoldAugust 22 - Sand from the temporary beach volleyball courts at Horse Guards Parade (pictured

We are hoping that the buzz around the London 2012 Olympic Games will inspire more people to try out beach

volleyball as a fun and exciting new sport, so it's important that we provide accessible facilities

Team GB beach volleyball stars Shauna Mullin (left) and Zara Dampney promote the Go Spike campaignThe

more facilities.Although Britain's representatives in beach volleyball failed to get near to competing

Being able to provide the sand - used at the iconic Horse Guards Parade Beach Volleyball venue and training

By David Gold at UK Sport headquarters in LondonAugust 14 - UK Sport chair Baroness Sue Campbell has hailed Britain's superb performance at London 2012 but said that they now faced the challenge of transferring a "unique" moment for sport in the country into "a future vision", as they aim to improve on their medal haul for the Rio 2016 Olympics.

which has been reviewed by UK Sport performance experts.Sports such as handball, basketball, indoor and beach

volleyball, and water polo will face a challenge to prove they can become sports at which Britain can

By David Owen at Wembley Stadium in LondonAugust 9 - "Absolutely" the best Olympic football tournament in his time at FIFA.

football tournament at London 2012He elaborated further as a nearby television screens pictures of a beach

volleyball match between Latvia and the Netherlands from picturesque Horse Guards

too elitist to be worthy of a place in the Olympics alongside the likes of synchronised swimming and beach

volleyball, but neither Williams nor Murray would trade what they have just achieved for anything

By Mike Rowbottom at Team GB House in LondonJuly 23 - Britain's women volleyball team, making their first

but we have played many of these teams before and done well," said Cooper, who represented Britain at beach

volleyball in the 1996 Atlanta Games."

said the 26-year-old Glaswegian.Audrey Cooper (holding Olympic Torch), coach of the Team GB women's volleyball

Grace Carter represents the Team GB women's volleyball team at London 2012There will be one final warm-up

Volleyball has professional leagues in Europe which allow women to earn a living in sport, ranging

geared up for London 2012 with victory over their Chinese rivals Chen Xue and Xi Zhang at the World Beach

Volleyball Tour Grand Slam event in Berlin.

By David Gold in Westminster in LondonJuly 17 - Cab drivers staged a protest this afternoon against not being allowed to use London's controversial Olympic Games Lanes, bringing roads in the centre of the city to a halt.

athletes and other accredited personnel only.The protest took place just round the corner from where the beach

volleyball will be played during the Olympics at Horse Guards Parade.Taxi drivers blared their horns

the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, has announced a new partnership with Maddox Club to create a pop-up beach

recreate the glitzy atmosphere of the club at Fish Island Riviera.The Fish Island Riviera will feature a beach

volleyball court, palm trees, cocktails and great food with 250 tonnes of beach volleyball sand and

By Tom DegunJuly 5 - Prime Minister David Cameron has praised the work of Tony Blair's Labour Government for winning the right to stage the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Singapore seven years ago.

After all, I look out of my window every morning and see the beach volleyball arena being built."

announced by the British Olympic Association (BOA) as the pairing that will represent Team GB in women's beach

volleyball at London 2012.

Edinburgh will become the first athletes to represent Britain in the sport since Atlanta 1996, when beach

Team GB Chef de Mission Andy Hunt said: "We are very pleased to welcome the first beach volleyball players

Beach volleyball is a fast, skilful and exciting sport, and London 2012 represents a fantastic opportunity

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By David GoldJuly 3 - Beach volleyball star Natalie Cook will be competing at her fifth Olympic Games

By David GoldJune 26 - Russia has celebrated International Olympic Day, with Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium, built for the 1980 Summer Olympics, at the heart of the festivities.

with a dedicated sports village comprising 35 different venues, allowing guests to play basketball, volleyball

host of the next Winter Games, Sochi is Russia's only sub-tropical city and its festivities included beach

football, volleyball and street ball competitions.Master classes in bench pressing, arm wrestling and

By Duncan MackayJune 22 - London 2012 has today put more Olympic tickets on sale, it has been announced. 

following the finalisation of more venue seating plans.These include tickets for archery at Lord's, beach

volleyball at Horse Guards Parade, taekwondo and volleyball at ExCel, as well as a number of suite tickets

bombings here back on July 7 2005, will compete at London 2012 after being named in the women's sitting volleyball

It is amazing to be selected in the sitting volleyball squad to represent ParalympicsGB this summer,"

It has been a hard rehabilitation process for me but sitting volleyball has helped me physically and

We cannot wait to get in front of the home crowd and show them what a great sport sitting volleyball

to have represented to Britain in the indoor, beach and sitting versions of the game.Prior to London

with Volleyball England to ensure sitting volleyball has met all credible performance requirements."

By Mike Rowbottom at the Prestige Pavilion on the Olympic Park in LondonJune 18 - Ninety per cent of the tickets on offer from Prestige Ticketing, London 2012's In-venue Hospitality Provider, have been sold, according to the company's chief executive, Andrew Burton.

overall United Kingdom allocation of eight million – have been sold; some still remain for equestrianism, beach

volleyball, handball and tennis.Prices for tickets range from £295 ($462/€367) to in excess of £4,500

construct and is the flagship of four key sites, the other three being at Horse Guards Parade, for beach

volleyball; Greenwich Park, for equestrianism; and Eton Dorney, for rowing.Prestige Ticketing is also