The West Midlands is to engage in talks with key sporting officials in the hope of bringing more major events to the English region after the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

world in the latest BCW Ranking of Sporting Cities ©Getty ImagesAthletics, badminton, 3x3 basketball, beach

volleyball, boxing, cricket, gymnastics, hockey, judo, lawn bowls, netball, Para powerlifting, rugby

There will be few greater contrasts with the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games than the settings for beach

volleyball.

in Birmingham’s City Centre at a specially constructed temporary arena in Smithfield.The temporary beach

volleyball court at Smithfield is all ready for Birmingham 2022 ©Getty ImagesIn the women's competition

entertainment during #B2022.Here's a glimpse of what the HUGE new city centre site will look like when it hosts Beach

Volleyball, 3x3 Basketball and festival events this summer.Get tickets for Smithfield?

Victoria 2026 chief executive Jeroen Weimar has revealed at the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) General Assembly here that he expects "three or four additional sports" to be added to the current 16 sports and six Para sports on the initial programme.

first predominantly regional edition of the multi-sport event.Aquatics, athletics, badminton, boxing, beach

volleyball, T20 cricket, cycling, gymnastics, hockey, lawn bowls, netball, rugby sevens, squash, table

Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Acting President Anil Khanna has revealed that the inclusion of shooting and wrestling at the Victoria 2026 Commonwealth Games is "heading in the right direction".

with an initial 16 sports announced.T20 cricket, swimming and diving, athletics, badminton, boxing, beach

volleyball, cycling, gymnastics, hockey, lawn bowls, netball, rugby sevens, squash, table tennis, triathlon

Kenya has long dominated distance running at the Commonwealth Games but will arrive at Birmingham 2022 with a point to prove.

gold.Kenya will send 127 athletes to Birmingham in all, and will also compete in 3x3 basketball, badminton, beach

volleyball, boxing, cycling, hockey, judo, lawn bowls, powerlifting, rugby sevens, squash, swimming,

About 200,000 tickets remain unsold for the Commonwealth Games here, leaving Birmingham 2022 facing an almighty task of securing a sell-out in time for the Opening Ceremony.

availability" include rugby sevens at the Coventry Stadium, women’s Twenty20 cricket at Edgbaston Stadium and beach

volleyball at Smithfield.Boxing, badminton and table tennis - all staged at the National Exhibition

Solomon Islands has named its largest-ever Commonwealth Games team for Birmingham 2022.

athletes for the Games here, across eight different sports.They will compete in aquatics, athletics, beach

volleyball, boxing, judo, table tennis, triathlon and weightlifting.Two-time Olympic weightlifter Jenly

Solomon Islands made history at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games and will compete at Birmingham 2022 with one eye on their own hosting duties.

Getty ImagesAs well as weightlifting, Solomon Islands will also be competing in aquatics, athletics, beach

volleyball, boxing, judo, table tennis and triathlon in the English city.

Stead Park in Geelong has been confirmed as the host of the hockey tournaments at the Victoria 2026 Commonwealth Games.

The Geelong hub will also host aquatics, Para swimming, beach volleyball, gymnastics, hockey, table tennis

Teqball has been chosen as a demonstration event for next year’s Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Phnom Penh.

European Games in Kraków-Małopolska.It is also on the programme as a medal sport at the 2023 Asian Beach

pétanque, sailing, sepak takraw, silat, soft tennis, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, endurance race, volleyball

As the chief executive of Munich’s Olympic Park, a legacy of the 1972 Olympic Games and now the location for the European Championships Munich 2022, my answer is simple when it comes to the question of why the Bavarian capital is taking over the baton from the inaugural edition in Glasgow and Berlin in 2018 and hosting the second edition of this innovative multi-sport event.

Germany since the 1972 Olympics, featuring the European Championships of nine Olympic sports: athletics, beach

volleyball, canoe sprint, cycling, gymnastics, rowing, sport climbing, table tennis, and triathlon.The

newspapers, and we have now announced our first sold-out events: the finals of the men’s and women’s beach

volleyball.

its ties with the Indonesia National Olympic Committee (KOI) as preparations for the Bali 2023 World Beach

It is an honour for us to welcome the delegation of ANOC to Bali, the host of the 2023 ANOC World Beach

I assure you that Indonesia will work to be the best ANOC World Beach Games."

areas, medical facilities and the key transport lines.Bali was chosen to stage the 2023 ANOC World Beach

Games are open water swimming over five kilometres, beach water polo, beach soccer, beach handball,

and swimming - 4x4 beach volleyball and beach wrestling.An ANOC General Assembly is then due to follow

Double Olympic sailing champion Marcelo Ferreira is among the 2022 inductees to the Brazilian Olympic Hall of Fame.

Angeles 1984 Olympic team to be honoured.Renan Dal Zotto, who played in all six matches for the men’s volleyball

double Olympic triple jump gold medallist Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, 800m champion Joaquim Cruz and beach

volleyball gold medallists Sandra Pires and Jackie Silva.The 2022 inductees will also be asked to make

The Victoria Commonwealth Games are to open on St Patrick’s Day, March 17, in 2026, Commonwealth Games Australia has announced.

Commonwealth Games Federation to make a decision on additional sports.Aquatics, athletics, badminton, boxing, beach

volleyball, T20 cricket, cycling, gymnastics, hockey, lawn bowls, netball, rugby sevens, squash, table

Representatives from the International University Sports Federation (FISU) have visited Westenergie Sports Hall in Mülheim to inspect the venue before it hosts badminton at the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 World University Games.

total of 18 sports are expected to be contested come Rhine-Ruhr 2025, including 15 core sports, with beach

volleyball, rowing and 3x3 basketball the optional sports due to feature.Rhine-Ruhr 2025 managing director