May  5 - British Volleyball have become the latest sport to hire former Daily Telegraph sports

David Welch Management (DWM)  have been engaged by British Volleyball to enhance the

The latest partnership will involve DWM working with the men and women’s indoor volleyball

squads, the beach volleyball squads and the sitting squads leading up to the 2012 London Olympics.

The partnership between British Volleyball and DWM intends to establish volleyball as an ambitious sport

, beach volleyball and sitting volleyball programmes, is a story about  incredible  journeys

Playing volleyball on Copacabana Beach may sound like a fantasy occupation but for the GB men and women

’s beach volleyball teams it represents the next serious step in their bid for medals at the London

volleyball competitor.

The professionalism of GB beach volleyball has grown significantly since the sport was introduced into

By the time the sand goes down in the Horseguard’s Parade as the venue for the London 2012 beach

By Mike Rowbottom in London March 22 - Paul Deighton, chief executive of London 2012, said today that the registration scheme set up as the first step for would-be spectators at the Olympics and Paralympics had had 40,000 hits in the first four hours.

"To give you an example, the beach volleyball at the Beijing Olympics  had sessions that were five

"Even for the most ardent of beach volleyball followers, that is a long time to have to be in a seat.

March 4 - The first stone of a new beach volleyball Development Centre  in Lorca, Spain, was

The goal of the new development is to become best beach volleyball center in Europe, and the two

best Spanish beach volleyball teams, Herrera-Gavira and Mesa-Lario, and trainer Sixto Jimenez also attended

volleyball areas, a gym and a covered beach volleyball sports hall, and phase two dedicated to a second

The first phase is due to be completed in eight months, with the exception of the beach volleyball sports

The Centre will host all the Spanish Federation beach volleyball programmes, at both grassroots and senior

But let’s consider one or two examples: Take volleyball.

Furthermore, fans of the sport would still have the beach volleyball competitions to look forward to

As with volleyball, cycling would not lose its seat at the Summer Olympics table because of its outdoor

January 25 - The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has started to develop a long term strategy for rugby sevens in England at all levels by hosting a pivotal planning forum for over 70 key stakeholders in the game, looking ahead to the inclusion of the sport in the Olympics from 2016.

country.Presenters at the conference included David Faulkner from England Hockey and Simon Golding from beach

volleyball, who shared their experiences of the Olympic effect on their sports, and Steve Griffiths

December 18 - Commonwealth Games gold medallist and former acting chief executive of Sport England Stephen Baddeley (pictured left) has been appointed as the new director of sport at the University of Bath, it was announced today.

other high performance bases at the University including modern pentathlon, bob skeleton, badminton, beach

volleyball and judo as well as the University being one of only five Intensive Training Centres for

process broadening the appeal of an event that can seem like the Movement’s poor cousin.And how about volleyball

– a sport popular in many snow-less nations that would still have, in beach volleyball, a format ideally

September 23 - Rio de Janeiro's campaign to host the 2016 Olympics has received a boost after a hotel chain unveiled plans to make available nearly 2,000 additional rooms for the Games, addressing one of the key issues that had prompted criticism of the bid by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

The hotel faces the site for the Rio 2016 beach volleyball arena.

September 23 - Rio de Janeiro's campaign to host the 2016 Olympics has received a boost after a hotel chain unveiled plans to make available nearly 2,000 additional rooms for the Games, addressing one of the key issues that had prompted criticism of the bid by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

The hotel faces the site for the Rio 2016 beach volleyball arena.

  AUGUST 13 - BRITAIN'S best young beach volleyball players looking to compete in the 2012 Olympics

will begin their preparations by competing in the SWATCH FIVB Junior World Beach Volleyball Championships

"It will be a great opportunity for the British public to see what beach volleyball is all about, in

At 6ft 9in, 17-year-old Gregory from Bath was spotted by UK Sport and directed into volleyball through

  AUGUST 13 - BRITAIN'S best young beach volleyball players looking to compete in the 2012 Olympics

will begin their preparations by competing in the SWATCH FIVB Junior World Beach Volleyball Championships

"It will be a great opportunity for the British public to see what beach volleyball is all about, in

At 6ft 9in, 17-year-old Gregory from Bath was spotted by UK Sport and directed into volleyball through

The history of Olympic volleyball can be traced back to the 1924 Olympics in Paris where it was played

Beach volleyball was a demonstration sport at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, and was introduced as an

A total of 24 teams participate in each beach volleyball Olympic tournament.

Since beach volleyball was introduced, the US has been the dominant force.

Though popularised in Southern California, the first recorded beach volleyball games took place on the

at venues such as Buckingham Palace and Horseguards Parade, the venue that is due to be used for the beach

volleyball competition in 2012.   The Barracks will undoubtedly provide a great venue for the

London 2012 Venue     Even the Prime Minister is looking forward to the beach volleyball

in Horse Guards Parade   MUCH excitement has been generated already by the fact that beach volleyball

Even Tony Blair said: “To have beach volleyball outside the Prime Minsters’s office will keep the Prime

Olympics is to erect two countries with capacities of 12,000 and 5,000 respectively.   The indoor volleyball