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Bach set to join German sports commemoration of attacks at Munich 1972 Olympics

  • Olympics

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach is expected to join a German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) event to remember events at the Munich 1972 Olympic Games when 11 Israeli team members died as a result of an attack by Arab terrorists.

Munich will also host the second edition of the multi-sport European Championships, featuring athletics, beach

volleyball, canoeing, cycling, gymnastics, rowing, sport climbing, table tennis and triathlon, between




Wrestler Inam elected chair of Pakistan Olympic Association Athletes' Commission

  • OCA

Wrestler Muhammad Inam was elected unopposed as the chair of the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) Athletes' Commission following a meeting at Pakistan Olympic House in Lahore.

occasion.Inam has also won two titles at the South Asian Games and one gold medal each at the Asian Beach

Games and World Beach Games.The other members of the POA Athletes' Commission are boxer Rukshan Parveen

, gymnastics' Muhammad Afzal, handball's Tahir Ali and Asma Akram, shooter Usman Chand, volleyball player


Ghana

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

Ghana is poised to take a record-breaking contingent to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Ninety-seven athletes are due to represent the African nation, in athletics, badminton, beach volleyball

Boxing and other sports, they train at the beach," he said."




Le Clos leads South African delegation as 190 athletes called up for Birmingham 2022

  • Birmingham 2022

The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) has selected an initial squad of 190 athletes to compete at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games across 16 sports.

he wins two medals in Birmingham ©Getty ImagesThe sports represented in the team are Para athletics, beach

volleyball, boxing, cricket, cycling, gymnastics, hockey, judo, lawn bowls, netball, Para lawn bowls




Smithfield and Victoria Square named as major festival sites for Birmingham 2022

  • Birmingham 2022

Smithfield and Victoria Square in Birmingham are set to act as major festival sites for the Commonwealth Games taking place from July 28 to August 8 with a programme of live performances, entertainment and special events, as well as giant screens to watch the sporting action.

The locations are already key venues for the Games with Smithfield hosting arenas for the beach volleyball


Bali chosen to host 2023 ANOC World Beach Games

  • ANOC World Beach Games

Bali has been selected as the host of the 2023 Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) World Beach

possible venues in the nation and have settled on Bali to stage the event.The second edition of the World Beach

follow in Bali from August 13 to 15.Indonesia was confirmed as the only candidate for the 2023 World Beach

water polo, beach soccer, beach handball, individual kata karate, kite foil, beach tennis, aquathlon

- a triathlon discipline comprised of running and swimming - 4x4 beach volleyball and beach wrestling

Beach wrestling is set to be one of the 10 core sports on the programme at the 2023 ANOC World Beach



Dobson and Culbert named co-chairs of new-look Australian Olympians Association

  • ONOC

Atlanta 1996 gold medallist Louise Dobson and former long jumper David Culbert have been appointed as co-chairs of a new-look Australian Olympians Association.

Western Australia.Delegates for New South Wales and Tasmania are still to be confirmed.Sydney 2000 beach

volleyball gold medallist Natalie Cook and three-time rowing Olympic gold medallist James Tomkins represent