Tokyo 2020 and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) appear to have closed the door on the possibility of a second Olympic baseball and softball venue in the capital city's metropolitan area during the Games.

is Tsurigasaki Beach in Chiba prefecture.All venues have now been decided except for Olympic indoor volleyball

The University of Debrecen has given its public support to the Budapest 2024 Olympic and Paralympic bid after praising the ongoing efforts to bring the Games to Hungary.

Budapest 2024 bid as one of six Olympic cities, in addition to the capital.It would host football and volleyball

insidethegames.biz has been named top of a survey of media most followed by Olympic organisations on Twitter.

most effective" on Twitter, with every post being retweeted an average of 467 times.The International Volleyball

I spent much of my visit to Tokyo last week for the Rio 2016 debrief and International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission inspection staying in a quintessentially Japanese capsule hotel.

relationship must be found with Koike, and this need may have explained why her proposal for a shift in volleyball

World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) President Riccardo Fraccari has called for a second 2020 Olympic venue in the Tokyo Metropolitan area to take priority over plans to consider holding games in Fukushima.

the Rio Session.Venues for those sports are also expected to be finalised next week.That would leave volleyball

Preference will be given to sports which offer qualification for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo when it comes to deciding the programme for the 2019 European Games in Minsk, it has been revealed. 

disciplines.Ryzhenkov also said the team sport programme is likely to include 3x3 basketball and beach volleyball

one venue still to be decided for Tokyo 2020 is due to host wheelchair basketball finals and Olympic volleyball

Plans to move volleyball and wheelchair basketball finals to the Yokohama Arena have been criticised

host preliminary wheelchair basketball games would be too small to host the final.The International Volleyball

basketball finals are due to take place in either the Ariake or Yokohama arenas as well as Olympic volleyball

Spanish police have arrested 34 people with alleged links to a tennis match-fixing ring in both Spain and Portugal.

tennis, with three coming in football.The other three were made up of one each from table tennis, beach volleyball

and volleyball, according to the ESSA.The release of the ESSA report came after it was revealed one

Chinese swimmer Xu Qing and fencer Rong Jing won the respective best male and female athlete prizes at the Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) Asian Awards ceremony, largely in recognition of their performances at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

male athlete prize ©Getty ImagesAmong the other winners at the ceremony was the Iranian men’s sitting volleyball

administrative staff have visited the Yokohama Arena venue currently being considered to host indoor volleyball

Forest course respectively.Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike proposed the Yokohama Arena as an alternative volleyball

International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission chair John Coates has warned Tokyo 2020 that their current budget cap of $20 billion (£16 billion/€18.8 billion) risks "giving a bad impression" to cities considering bidding for the Games.

apologised to Nigeria's Coordination Commission member Habu Gumel, who is also part of the International Volleyball

Tokyo 2020 chief executive Toshiro Muto has suggested private sector capital as a means to reduce the cost of venues to be used at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

be used] even regarding the National Stadium and especially the Ariake Arena [one of two potential volleyball

Working out a "matrix of responsibility", defining a functional model for operations and keeping on top of timings have been hailed as three vital components of a successful Olympic Games as the Rio 2016 debrief concluded here today. 

, have already been slow in finalising a venue masterplan for which the one outstanding choice, for volleyball

Tokyo 2020 have been warned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to keep costs "significantly less" than the maximum figure of $20 billion (£16 billion/€18.8 billion/¥2.3 trillion) cited here today.

the Olympic Aquatics Stadium - but with a reduced capacity of 15,000 spectators.A decision over the volleyball

Forest course on Tokyo Bay during the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games but a final decision over the volleyball

who was elected to her post in July, then asked for extra time to consider a potential move of the volleyball