By Duncan MackayAugust 11 - Ireland today tried to help reassure countries attending the Chef de Missions seminar in London that next year's Olympics will be safe despite the riots that have swept across the country this week when Sonia O'Sullivan told the meeting that she had no doubts that the event would pass off peacefully and set a new standard for excellence.

storiesAugust 2011: London 2012 backed to stage safe Olympics despite riotsAugust 2011: London 2012 beach

volleyball forced to finish early to avoid riotsAugust 2011: Alan Hubbard - London riots have worrying

Volleyball, Beach Volleyball, BMX, Eventing, Mountain Biking, Modern Pentathlon (best pin yet?)

I tried to get into the beach volleyball on Tuesday afternoon.It was an impulse thing: a test event for

Cook.Indeed, the great explorer and navigator has his back turned on proceedings.Not very Yorkshire, that beach

volleyball lark, clearly.David Owen worked for 20 years for the Financial Times in the United States

By Duncan MackayAugust 9 - London 2012 organisers modified the schedule for today's beach volleyball

vehicles and buildings being destroyed by fire, extensive damage to property and looting.The Visa FIVB Beach

Volleyball International, attended by teams from around the globe, began on today and was meant to have

in Hackney, an Olympic Host Borough located just a few miles from the main site, will not affect the beach

volleyball test event due to begin at Horse Guards Parade tomorrow, officials have claimed.

Wednesday (August 10) can go ahead.But London 2012 officials have told insidethegames that the Visa FIVB Beach

Volleyball International, which is due to feature·world number one pairing Jennifer Kessy and April

By Duncan MackayAugust 4 - A campaign to help prepare people for next year's Olympics and Paralympics was launched today by Transport for London (TfL) and London 2012.

and changing bus lanes and stops are among TfL's plans.Horse Guards Parade – where the sand for beach

volleyball has begun to arrive ahead of this month's test event – is one of the key Olympics venues

By Emily GoddardJuly 29 - Registration to the London Media Centre (LMC), for those not accredited the Games, has opened and journalists are being urged to register before the March 31 deadline as demand is expected to be high, with the world's media vying for the chance to report on the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.

of London, close to the Houses of Parliament and a stone's throw from Horse Guards Parade where the beach

volleyball competition will take place, the London Media Centre at One Great George Street offers live

 For example, Drivers Jonas Deloitte will be project managing the construction of both the beach

volleyball facility at Horse Guards Parade and the equestrian venue at Greenwich Park.

in LondonJuly 21 - London 2012 Director of Sport Debbie Jevans has claimed that staging the Olympic beach

volleyball at Horse Guards Parade will be a winning combination as the iconic venue in the centre if

trucks of sand arrive here ahead of the London Prepares Series test event next month - the Visa FIVB Beach

Volleyball International.

Today is very exciting for LOCOG and all our Beach Volleyball partners," said Jevans."

Beach Volleyball is no doubt one of the most anticipated and exciting events in the test event and Olympic

The beach volleyball test event, which went on sale to the public earlier this year and has now sold

Volleyball InternationalMarch 2011: Place in the sun for Britain's beach volleyball playersJanuary

2010: Centre Court-style venue for beach volleyball at London 2012

By Emily GoddardJuly 17 - Visa has announced it will sponsor four new United States Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls on their journey to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games providing direct funding, promotional support and life skills training in their quest for glory.

champions such as swimmers Michael Phelps and Katie Hoff, track and field sprint athlete Allyson Felix, beach

volleyball player Kerri Walsh, gymnast Nastia Liukin and decathlete Bryan Clay."

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Volleyball InternationalMay 2011: Lloyds TSB partner with Samsung and Visa to pioneer contactless

By Tom DegunJuly 14 - Rio de Janeiro is set to face an early test of its credentials to host the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games as the Brazilian city gears up to stage the fifth Military World Games this weekend.

countries compete across 20 sports, the majority of which are Olympic sports.Athletics, basketball, beach

volleyball, boxing, equestrian, fencing, football, judo, modern pentathlon, sailing, shooting, swimming

, taekwondo, triathlon and volleyball are all on the sports programme.The only non-Olympic sports to

selection of the 2018 Host City has brought us to Durban.With its flat urban thoroughfares, palm-fringed beach-front

hard to focus on the finer points of the three competing speed-skating venues when they're playing beach

volleyball outside.On the other hand, perhaps the California-esque backdrop – along with a certain wedding

of Lee Myung-bak (pictured below right), the South Korean President, and extensive entourage, at the beach-front

By Mike Rowbottom at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in London July 1 - Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has acknowledged that many tickets allocated to corporate guests at next year's Olympics are likely not to be used, and has set in motion plans to fill the gaps with brightly-clad schoolchildren.

was cheesed off, but thankfully I was successful in the second go and got tickets for basketball and beach

volleyball," he said."

I have the best possible excuse for the beach volleyball, which was that was all there was there."

the very definition of sun, sea and sand and despite the fact that it is supposedly winter here, the beach

enough to turn down a trip to the Gold Coast.The weather is almost always perfect, the never-ending beach

of beaches and I admit I am finding it difficult to maintain concentration, while watching a game of beach

volleyball going ahead!

By Tom DegunJune 14 - Thomas Cook, the official short break provider of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics, is still offering packages for the Games, including one-person deals, although it has revealed they are selling out quickly, with fans now having learnt if they have been successful in the first round of the controversial random ballot for tickets.

are for one night with one or two events with the most popular sports being athletics, gymnastics, volleyball

water polo.Some popular breaks still available include a one night, one event package to see women's beach

volleyball from £109 ($179) per person on August 3, 2012, with a one night stay in the Ibis Hotel at