Almost 200 athletes are set to represent North Korea at the upcoming Asian Games in Hangzhou as it ends a three-year isolation from major international sport, it has been announced.

Korean athletes are set to compete in 18 sports including archery, basketball, football, table tennis, volleyball

Greece won four of the eight golds available today at the Mediterranean Beach Games in the Greek city of Heraklion on the island of Crete, to move into second place in the medal table, just one gold adrift of Spain.

Fernandez Palos and Antonio Miguel Ramos Viera.Greece also had success on the second day of the beach volleyball

Calls are being made to ban Iran from next year’s Olympics in Paris after claims that the country is violating the Olympic Charter over its discrimination against women in sport.

that the IOC should either banish Iran from the Games or prevent them from competing in boxing, beach volleyball

Australia have named a 20-strong athletics team as well as eight judokas for this year's Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands.

several sports at Port Moresby 2015.Australia is set to participate in archery, athletics, boxing, beach volleyball

Santa Monica has announced a preliminary construction plan for its hosting of beach volleyball competition

temporary arena is due to be constructed to the north of Santa Monica Pier during its hosting of beach volleyball

during the negotiation of the venue use agreement, which is still to be finalised.As well as beach volleyball

neighbours Canada in straight sets claim gold in the 2023 Men's North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball

Confederation (NORCECA) Volleyball Championship.

Twenty-one nations have entered the sixth edition of the Invictus Games, which is due to start tomorrow in the German city of Düsseldorf.

first South American nation to participate.Archery, athletics, indoor rowing, powerlifting, sitting volleyball

International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) and International Skating Union (ISU) Presidents Petra Sörling and Kim Jae-youl of South Korea have been proposed to become International Olympic Committee (IOC) members, along with Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh, a former Bond girl.  

President of the Olympic Committee of Israel in November 2021.Tait was part of Peru's silver-medal winning volleyball

Thailand secured a hard-fought win over China to lift the 22nd Asian Senior Women's Volleyball Championship

more to seal the deal.Two-time defending champions Japan won the bronze medal against Vietnam ©Asian Volleyball

the United States in a five-set thriller to retain the Women’s North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball

Confederation Volleyball Championship crown in Quebec.

pic.twitter.com/mtVCp8gVwS— Volleyball Canada (@VBallCanada) September 4, 2023"I’m disappointed to be

It wasn’t the cleanest volleyball we have played this week, but we did what we had to do to pull off

Poreč in Croatia has here been awarded hosting rights for the next edition of the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) World Championships due to be held in 2025.

hosted the European Archery Championships, Davis Cup tennis matches and events on the International Volleyball

Federation Beach Volleyball World Tour, now the Beach Pro Tour, in recent years.The Intersport Sport

International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons has praised the impact the African Para Games can bring to the continent after attending the Opening Ceremony of the inaugural edition in Accra last night.

September 12 in four sports - amputee football, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair tennis and sitting volleyball

Turkey claimed a dramatic victory at the Women’s European Volleyball Championship after beating Serbia

Türkiye 🇹🇷 are European Champions 🏆#EuroVolleyW #EuroVolley2023 pic.twitter.com/oZJCV7mq0Z— European Volleyball

Brazil's showing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is being celebrated by a new exhibition installed in the eMuseum of Sport in partnership with the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB).

judo and first Brazilian athlete to win three Olympic medals; and the silver medal-winning women's volleyball

Fireworks crackled in the night sky earlier this week as Azerbaijan's FK Qarabağ drew 1-1 against Olimpija Ljubljana from Slovenia to secure a 3-1 aggregate victory in the UEFA Europa League playoffs. 

 In later years, there was success for volleyball player Inna Ryskal, an Olympic gold medallist

at Mexico 1968 and Munich 1972, who was inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame.In 1992