Changing lives for the better - inspire, engage and unite the youth and young people of the Commonwealth - is the theme for the seventh Commonwealth Youth Games which will be held in the twin island republic of Trinidad and Tobago during the month of August in 2023.

swimming, athletics, cycling (road and track), Fast5 netball (women only), rugby sevens, triathlon and beach

volleyball.

The next time someone tells you that the Olympic Games are a load of balls, you can be forgiven for nodding your head in agreement. 

present or major international sports events all over the world:Basketball, baseball, softball, football, volleyball

, beach volleyball, lawn bowls, tenpin bowling, cricket, croquet, lawn tennis, table tennis, pétanque

Olivers Bulgačs and Dāvis Teteris in an all-Latvian men’s final to capture gold at the International Volleyball

Federation Beach Volleyball Under-19 World Championships in Turkey.

qualification system for AirBadminton at the Bali 2023 Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) World Beach

The sport, making its debut at the ANOC World Beach Gams, is set to attract 72 athletes - 36 men and

level of play, and with such a proud history of badminton in Indonesia, we expect our very first World Beach

were the other new sports added to the Bali 2023 programme.Core sports include open water swimming, beach

water polo, beach soccer, beach handball, individual kata, kite foil, beach tennis, aquathlon, beach

volleyball 4x4, and beach wrestling.The Bali 2023 ANOC World Beach Games is scheduled to be held from

gold medals at the International University Sports Federation (FISU) World University Championship Beach

Volleyball at Praia de Pajuçara in Brazil.

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total of 122 athletes representing 23 countries took part in the FISU World University Championship Beach

Volleyball.

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has held a forum with five Olympians to celebrate the efforts of over 1,000 young people nominated as Australian Olympic Change-Makers.

Beach volleyball Olympic silver medallist Taliqua Clancy, two-time Commonwealth Games decathlon bronze

André Barros has resigned as skateboarding chair for World Skate America, citing the cancellation of this year's Park and Street World Championships for the decision, and the global governing body has come under fire for alleged negligence of a bid for the sport to feature at the Los Angeles 2028 Paralympics.

International Federations have applied to join the Paralympic programme in 2028, plus World ParaVolley wants beach

ParaVolley to accompany sitting volleyball in Los Angeles, but World Skate is not among them.

Australia's athletes and officials from the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games have become the first Commonwealth team to receive the Australian Sports Medal following another Games at the top of the medal table.

medallists Gretel Bueta and Liz Watson, women's cricket gold medallists Darcie Brown and Jess Jonassen, beach

volleyball player Paul Burnett and wheelchair athlete Sam Carter.Youngest member of the team, diver

The Estadio Henryk Reyman, which is to hold the Opening Ceremony of the Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games in Poland, continues to sit in limbo over its redevelopment, with opponents saying costs are too high for renovations.

as the best offers were four times over budget.Tenders continue for modernisation of facilities for beach

football and handball, beach volleyball, badminton and sport climbing in Tarnów too, less than a year

World ParaVolley has applied for its beach discipline to be added to the Commonwealth Games and Mediterranean

Beach Games programmes.

Under the proposals, beach ParaVolley competition would be held alongside able-bodied competition, mirroring

Victoria 2026 chief executive Jeroen Weimar saying "three or four" more are likely to be added.Beach volleyball

ParaVolley.Beach volleyball has been contested at each of the last two Commonwealth Games and is on

the Victoria 2026 programme ©Getty ImagesAble-bodied beach volleyball has also been on the programme

), Phil Allen [general manager], Nick Coburn [PVAO beach commissioner] and Volleyball Australia for their

Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee President Diane Henderson heralded the signing of the official host contract for next year’s Commonwealth Youth Games as a "momentous occasion".

Getty ImagesAmong those include the Dwight Yorke Stadium for track and field events, Pigeon Point for beach

volleyball and Buccoo for triathlon.Dame Louise claimed Trinidad and Tobago 2023, scheduled to run from

Two years into his Presidency of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB), Ary Graça was literally

and beach volleyball events."

and Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, grow in accessibility, access and reach."

Whether in volleyball or beach volleyball, if the national team is strong and competitive, this will

and beach volleyball, to achieve their goals and reach their full potential."

Meanwhile Volleyball World will continue to expand the commercial potential of volleyball and beach volleyball

In a cast of tens of thousands of wonderful athletes, volunteers, Olympiapark, Local Organising Committee (LOC), federation staff, freelancers, service providers, police, ambulance, security services, and of course the 1.46 million people who attended a sporting or festival event as part of the Munich 2022 European Championships, it is difficult to single out any one person's contribution to what we have just witnessed. 

over its three days of competition, the party atmosphere downtown at the Koenigplatz each day for the beach

volleyball and sport climbing, and once the sport had finished, the rocking Roofs festival in Olympiapark

Karsten Warholm's 400m hurdles win at the European Athletics Championships in Munich attracted a viewing share of 63 per cent on the Norwegian television channel NRK, figures released by the European Championships Management (ECM) show.

across the nine sports.As with ARD, ZDF also achieved high ratings for other sports including beach

volleyball - 2.85 million - and track cycling, which garnered 2.3 million.Norway's high point of those

gymnastics and rowing and the creative approach to the newer sports such as BMX, sport climbing and beach

volleyball."

volleyball, sport climbing, canoe sprint and table tennis.The release as of viewing figures comes as

International Hockey Federation (FIH) Presidential candidate Marc Coudron believes the sport must alter its reliance on water-based hockey pitches as he seeks to promote his leadership vision to head the International Federation.

Presidency.Ikram is the chief executive of the Asian Hockey Federation and has worked with Formula Three, the Beach

Volleyball World Tour as well as the International Olympic Committee on its Olympic Solidarity Commission.Coudron