The 2019 African Games have officially begun following the Opening Ceremony in the Moroccan capital of Rabat - and the "lighting" of the flame.

56th birthday in two days time.Athletics, rowing, canoeing, karate, swimming, weightlifting, beach volleyball

 Action in beach volleyball, football and judo has already taken place, with boxing, handball, rowing

China and hosts South Korea have both secured their place in the second round of the Asian Women's Volleyball

Kong China 3-0(25-10,25-14,25-22)#AsainSeniorWomensChampionship pic.twitter.com/VSHexwavVp— Asian Volleyball

More than 4.5 million website visits were registered during Tokyo 2020's second-chance Olympic ticket lottery for residents of Japan, which closed today.

with sessions available during the second lottery were athletics, baseball/softball, basketball, beach volleyball

golf, gymnastics, handball, hockey, modern pentathlon, mountain bike, rowing, rugby sevens, taekwondo, volleyball

Jānis Šmēdiņš and Aleksandrs Samoilovs of Latvia successfully defended their title at the International Volleyball

Hosts South Korea defeated Iran in straight sets as the Asian Women's Volleyball Championships opened

Morocco will end a 40-year absence from the African Games tomorrow with the country hosting the 2019 edition of the competition. 

African Games in Morocco ©Getty ImagesAthletics, rowing, canoeing, karate, swimming, weightlifting, beach volleyball

 Action in beach volleyball, football and judo has already taken place, with boxing, handball, rowing

Brazilian players had a day to remember at the International Volleyball Federation Beach World Tour event

Defending champions and top seeds Japan go in search of a fifth Asian Women’s Volleyball Championship

runner-up on seven occasions without ever claiming the title.Of the 13 teams competing in this Asia Volleyball

Confederation (AVC) event, the top eight will go through to the 2020 AVC Women’s Volleyball Olympic

match against the latter nation tomorrow at the 13,500 capacity Jamsil Indoor Stadium which hosted the volleyball

Eight pairs earned their places in the women’s quarter-finals at the International Volleyball Federation

World ParaVolley (WPV) is preparing a history project which will be launched to coincide with the federation's 40th anniversary next year.

the Netherlands in 1980 for an international organisation to be established.The World Organisation of Volleyball

for the Disabled (WOVD) was launched and was successful in bringing sitting and standing volleyball

for men to the Paralympics.Both men and women have competed in sitting volleyball at the Games since

titled When Sitting is Not Resting: Sitting Volleyball, has been appointed as chief historian.Kwok

met with founding WOVD President Pieter Joon at the World Sitting Volleyball Championships, where they

The International University Sports Federation (FISU) has claimed the signs of a lasting legacy from its 2019 Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk can be seen by locals, tourists and elite sports stars making use of the city's winter sports venues.

freestyle and snowboard disciplines.”Krasnoyarsk was recently selected to host a leg of the International Volleyball

Federation's 2022 World Volleyball Championship, with the Ivan Yarygin Sports Palace being transformed

today by claiming two wins with partner Brooke Sweat as they topped their pool at the International Volleyball

World ParaVolley (WPV) is seeking a new host for the women's Final Paralympic Qualification Tournament in 2020 after Italy pulled out of staging the competition.

The Italian women's sitting volleyball team qualified for the Paralympics in Tokyo and have since withdrawn

Nelson Mandela was bang on the button when he declared: "Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than Governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination."

competitors at Rio 2016, though not quite to the extent of burqas being exchanged for bikinis in beach volleyball

and Suzuka Hashimoto reached the main draw of the women's event as action began at the International Volleyball