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Gold Coast 2018 confirm departure of head of sport

  • Gold Coast 2018

Gold Coast 2018 have confirmed the departure of their head of sport, Anita Palm, with one year to go until the start of the Commonwealth Games.

The Volleyball Australia vice-president had served in the role for three years but Gold Coast 2018 said


Commonwealth Games Associations mark one-year-to-go until Gold Coast 2018

  • Gold Coast 2018

Commonwealth Games Associations (CGAs) have officially marked the one-year-to-go milestone to Gold Coast 2018.

Gold Coast next year.”Commonwealth Games Scotland warmed up for next year’s Games by focusing on beach volleyball

, which will be part of the Games programme for the first time.Their beach volleyball players Lynne Beattie

Commonwealth Games Scotland marked the one-year to go mark with a beach volleyball themed event ©Team


Gold Coast 2018 reveal largest competition schedule for a Commonwealth Games

  • Gold Coast 2018

Gold Coast 2018 have released the largest competition schedule for a Commonwealth Games as each of the 23 sporting disciplines discovered their competition dates and times.

action starts with a sporting feast on day one with 13 sports on display including the first ever beach volleyball




Rwanda National Paralympic Committee elects new President

  • Paralympics

The National Paralympic Committee (NPC) of Rwanda has appointed Jean Baptiste Murema as its new President following a General Assembly at the Amahoro Stadium in Kigali.

Murema, a former sitting volleyball player who competed at London 2012, will take over the position from

appearance at the Rio 2016 Paralympics, where it became the first African country to field a women's sitting volleyball

a Games.He has vowed to oversee the successful qualification of Rwanda's men’s and women's sitting volleyball

teams for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.Rwanda made history by sending the first African women’s sitting volleyball

vice-president.Dieudonne Mutangana, meanwhile, will replace Eric Karasira as secretary general.Rwanda's women's sitting volleyball



Vanuatu 2017 expecting over 1,800 athletes at Pacific Mini Games

  • Pacific Games News

Vanuatu 2017 organisers have stated that around 1,832 athletes are on course to attend this year’s Pacific Mini Games.

with the number including Para-athletics and Para table tennis.Vanuatu 2017 also stated that the beach volleyball

12,000 seater outdoor stadium, a track that is fully lit, an indoor hall, six tennis courts, four beach volleyball



World ParaVolley sign deal with Molten

  • Paralympics

Japanese company Molten will provide the balls in the volleyball competition at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic

volleyballs each year for training and education courses.The company will also provide balls for Para beach volleyball

, a sport which is not currently on the Paralympic programme.The men's sitting volleyball competition


ONOC to hear proposal on potential Tokyo 2020 training camps in Fukuoka

  • ONOC

Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC) members will hear a proposal which could see them use training facilities in Fukuoka in the build-up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. 

would include local athletics and martial arts venues as well as gymnasiums and swimming pools.A beach volleyball


Protesters oppose construction projects in Tokyo

  • Tokyo 2020

At least three people have reportedly been ejected from a park in Tokyo today after they attempted to protest against construction projects as the city prepares for the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.

 A volleyball match taking place at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in the Shibuya district of


Aboriginal skater's Olympic hopes may rest on Russian partner's mother learning English

  • Skating

Harley Windsor is hoping to become the first Aboriginal Australian to reach the Winter Olympics by earning a qualifying place at this week's International Skating Union (ISU) World Figure Skating Championships - but his fate could ultimately rest on whether the mother of his Russian partner in the pairs, Yekaterina Alexandrovskaya, can learn English in time.

Atlanta.Ten indigenous Australian athletes were selected for last year's Rio Olympics across beach volleyball