A total of eight sports at the Accra 2023 African Games are set to serve as Paris 2024 Olympic Games qualifiers.

Olympic qualifiers, the other sports on the programme are arm wrestling, athletics, 3x3 basketball, beach volleyball

, boxing, cricket, football, handball, hockey, judo, karate, rugby, taekwondo, volleyball and weightlifting.There

The Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) has revealed it has a 300-strong "preliminary" delegation for next year’s Paralympics in Paris - despite not knowing whether they will be allowed to participate.

We did not include representatives of team sports, for example, wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball

The National Olympic Committee (NOC) of the Kyrgyz Republic has furthered plans to build a 1,500-capacity sports complex in the capital Bishkek at a cast of $2 million (£1.6 million/€1.8 million).

become Bishkek's first purpose-built facility for martial arts and team sports including basketball, volleyball

France quarterback Elisa de Santis has claimed that flag football has got "top athletes" compared to 24 years ago, when she first played the sport.

I have played other sports, but I think for me flag football is as great as basketball or volleyball

France have claimed the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Boy's Under-19 World Championship

📸 Volleyball World pic.twitter.com/cSrvVvqMIH— FFvolley (@FFvolley) August 12, 2023Earlier in the day

Argentina captured the Women’s Pan American Volleyball Cup title for the first time after defeating hosts

game-high 22 points but it was not enough to help Puerto Rico seal their first Women’s Pan American Volleyball

Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) general secretary Sergei Lebedev claimed the CIS Games in Minsk were proof that "there are no and cannot be borders between states, there is no and should not be politics and discrimination".

Belarus a long way behind in second ©RBFThe CIS Games saw athletes compete in sports including athletics, volleyball

Turkey looks set to bid for the 2027 European Para Championships (EPC) as part of its quest to stage the 2036 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

planned to add sports including wheelchair fencing, Para table tennis, Para powerlifting and sitting volleyball

There was something Brian Lewis said at the start of the Commonwealth Youth Games which stuck with me throughout the six days of competition plus the Closing Ceremony in Trinidad and Tobago.

Completion of the Black Rock Facility for beach volleyball may have been tight, but it is an impressive

Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart has committed an AUD3 million (£1.5 million/$1.9 million/€1.7 million) investment to four sporting organisations over two years in the build-up to the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games and beyond.

performance-based payments to Rowing Australia, Swimming Queensland, the Australian Swimmers' Association, Volleyball

The United States have reclaimed the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Girls' Under-19 World

pic.twitter.com/nTycxxbVUa— USA Volleyball (@usavolleyball) August 11, 2023The US head coach Jamie Morrison

Trinidad and Tobago's Sports Minister Shamfa Cudjoe has revealed the Commonwealth Youth Games here was delivered within its allocated budget of TTF$35 million (£4 million/$5.1 million).

Association Games (CARIFTA) in athletics.Trinbago 2023 primarily used existing venues, but a new beach volleyball

Ghana's wheelchair tennis team have received a donation of jerseys in preparation for next month's African Para Games on home soil.

Games.Wheelchair tennis is one of just four Para sports on the programme along with wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball

Picture gallery

champions ©Getty ImagesCanada's Katarina Drozd, left, and Calinda Kok, right, won the women's beach volleyball

Cameron Zajer of Australia ©Getty ImagesOliver Toomes, left, and Andon Kiriakou, right, made it a beach volleyball

Canada won both beach volleyball gold medals on the final day of competition at the Trinbago 2023 Commonwealth