Don’t ask me about Rio de Janeiro because I don’t know the city and I never will, even though I am here to cover the Olympic Games.

different feeling to it, inhabited by joggers, its beaches genuinely dotted with young people playing volleyball

New Austrian alpine snowboard head coach Ingemar Walder has begun his first season in charge with a training camp filled with various activities.

days, the team not only took to the River Isel for some white water rafting but they also played beach volleyball

Sport at the moment is in a battle for its very identity. I was privy to two great pieces of drama yesterday which showed all that is good about victory and competition, only for they to be tempered today by more salutary moments.

Empty seats at venues are a more serious problem, especially in sports like beach volleyball which is

Claire Harvey has been forced to pull out of competing at Rio 2016 because of a hand injury.

hand in training ©Getty ImagesHarvey competed at London 2012 where she represented Team GB in sitting volleyball

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Frank Schleck of Luxembourg talk before the men's cycling road race ©Getty ImagesA view of the beach volleyball

Alexander Zhukov, President of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), claimed the Russian team was "probably the cleanest in Rio", as he announced that at least 271 Russian athletes would be permitted to compete in the 2016 Olympic Games.

being subjected to more tests, he said.Six-time Olympian, the near two-metres tall Sergey Tetyukhin, a volleyball

A nationwide competition has been launched to find a theme song for next year's Summer Universiade in Taipei City. 

17 sports, including swimming, diving, basketball, fencing, football, judo, table tennis, tennis and volleyball

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A soldier keeping watch outside the beach volleyball stadium in CopacabanaRichard Pound speaking to the

and Janis Smedins lived up to their status as top seeds in the men’s competition at the International Volleyball

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Janerio's iconic Copacabana Beach ©Getty ImagesAn Olympic fan in flamboyant dress watches a game of beach volleyball

A main ramp allowing boats to access water at the Marina de Gloria sailing venue has collapsed today amid strong waves in the latest indication of poor construction work for the Olympic and Paralympic Games here. 

normal for the Brazilian winter.Water also infiltrated television studies near the Copacabana Bay beach volleyball

Germany’s Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst justified their top seeding at the International Volleyball

pairing of Bartosz Losiak and Michal Bryl won their third-straight Pool F match at the International Volleyball

Adding beach volleyball to the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast will cost the Organising Committee

Beach volleyball was the 18th sport to be confirmed on the programme after an agreement was struck between

need to find an additional AUD$19 million (£11 million/$14.5 million/€13 million) to incorporate beach volleyball

at the event through ticket sales and other revenues.The beach volleyball events at Gold Coast 2018

are scheduled to be held in Coolangatta ©Visit Gold Coast“The overall cost of adding beach volleyball

“They are the key parts of, I would say, the cost of putting the volleyball together.”

competition at the Klagenfurt Major after a coming through a tough day of competition at the International Volleyball