A crunch week for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics has begun here today with a six-hour meeting of a specially convened Working Group assessing potential changes to venues. 

balloon to ¥3 trillion (£22 billion/$30 billion/€26 billion).Proposed changes for swimming and volleyball

A sepaktakraw coaching course has been held by the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC) at their headquarters in Phnom Penh.

event and detailed his experience of coaching in both South Korea and India.The sport is similar to volleyball

Tokyo 2020 appear poised to downscale existing plans rather than move Olympic venues for rowing, canoe sprint and other sports away from the capital city.

 Planned swimming and volleyball stadia are also now expected to be modified rather than abandoned

International Swimming Federation (FINA) President Julio Maglione has reportedly claimed the pool for Tokyo 2020 will not experience the same problems experienced at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

the city's new governor, Yuriko Koike, proposed in September that venues for rowing and canoe sprint, volleyball

The mascot of the 2017 Youth Parapan American Games in Brazilian city São Paulo will be named Mona after the results of a public poll were revealed.

athletics, boccia, football five-a-side, football seven-a-side, goalball, judo, powerlifting, sitting volleyball

The Zimbabwe Olympic Committee (ZOC) hosted a session of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Athlete Career Programme.

taking part represented sports including athletics, rowing, swimming, shooting, triathlon, football, volleyball

Abandoning plans to host rowing and canoe sprint at the Sea Forest Waterway during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games would cost ¥10 billion (£73 million/$90 million), it has been reported.

 The Koike-backed report also suggested that swimming and volleyball venues be moved as part of

the bid to keep costs down.The meeting reportedly heard that renovating the Yokohama Arena for volleyball

A number of Olympians and Paralympians will be aboard the City of Los Angeles’ flower-filled float to celebrate the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic bid at the 128th Rose Parade on January 2 next year.

legends, including gymnasts Nadia Comaneci and Bart Conner, Paralympic long jumper Lex Gillette and beach volleyball

Anderson, Summer and Winter Paralympic medallist Candace Cable, hurdler Dawn Harper-Nelson, beach volleyball

The cost of constructing the gymnastics venue for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo has reportedly more than doubled as their concerns remain over the rising budget of the event in the Japanese capital. 

to reduce the growing budget of the Games.They had proposed that venues for rowing and canoe sprint, volleyball

A public vote will be held to name the mascot for the 2017 Youth Parapan American Games, which will be held in Brazilian city São Paulo.

athletics, boccia, football five-a-side, football seven-a-side, goalball, judo, powerlifting, sitting volleyball

The President of the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (CTOC) Hong-Dow Lin has awarded the International Olympic Committee's Sport and Innovation Trophy to the country's Agency of Corrections and Ministry of Justice.

Olympic Committee to Taiwan.Gold medallists from athletics, cycling, shooting, taekwondo, women’s volleyball

Kuwaiti authorities have lodged a $1 billion (£804 million/€916 million) lawsuit against the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for suspending the country in the Lausanne Civil Court, insidethegames has been told.

bodies have also been dissolved today.There has also been speculation that federations representing volleyball

Tokyo 2020 organisers have agreed to host baseball and softball matches in stricken areas in Fukushima.

Force commissioned by the city's new governor, Yuriko Koike, suggesting that rowing, canoe sprint, volleyball

Commonwealth Games England (CGE) have announced plans to create the best performance environment for their team at Gold Coast 2018 here today, while 25 athlete ambassadors were also revealed.

forthcoming months.Athletics’ Niamh Emerson, badminton player Lauren Smith, boxing’s Frazer Clarke, beach volleyball

The National Paralympic Committee of Rwanda (NPC), the nation's sporting umbrella body for people with physical disabilities, has celebrated its 15th anniversary. 

At Rio 2016 Rwanda was the first African country qualify to compete in sitting volleyball at the Paralympics

We were the first African country to qualify a women's sitting volleyball team for the Paralympic Games

The Rwandan women sitting volleyball team achieved their biggest milestone thus far by winning the Africa