down to clinch a thrilling five set win over defending champions France to get their International Volleyball

Organisers of the 2016 Asian Beach Games in Vietnam plan to broadcast the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the event live on television alongside coverage of several sports on the programme, it was announced after the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) conducted an inspection visit to the country.

meetings with Danang 2016 and decided they would also aim to screen live coverage of beach soccer, beach volleyball

The draw for the Rio 2016 beach volleyball competition has taken place in the Swiss village of Gstaad

Binstock and Sam Schachter combined to secure Canada a second Rio 2016 spot at last week’s International Volleyball

and Larissa Franca are the team to beat in the women's draw ©FIVB in Rio/TwitterThe Rio 2016 beach volleyball

Küng"Thanks to our professional athletes and the constant improvement of our sport’s global image, beach volleyball

The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) World League final six is due to get underway tomorrow

Around 5,000 athletes from 300 universities are set to compete in the European Universities Games (EUG) which will officially open tomorrow in Rijeka and Zagreb in Croatia.

2012 and Rotterdam in 2014.Badminton, basketball, futsal, football, handball, tennis, table tennis and volleyball

contested.Organisers, who are being supported by the Croatian Academic Sports Federation, also opted to add beach volleyball

Beach volleyball is set to be included on the programme for the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in The

soccer have all been confirmed on the schedule for the event, due to run from July 18 to 23, and beach volleyball

Organising Committee chief executive Romell Knowles told insidethegames that he is "very confident beach volleyball

the first time the sport has ever featured at the Commonwealth Youth Games, in the near future.Beach volleyball

Games at Gold Coast 2018.Should the CGF officially award the sport a place on the programme, beach volleyball

Centre along with beach soccer.Discussions remain ongoing about how to organise the schedule for beach volleyball

International Olympic Committee (IOC) official Nawal El Moutawakel has predicted that the legacy of Rio 2016 will benefit "local citizens and the whole country for decades" in a message designed to boost confidence with 25 days-to-go until the Opening Ceremony.

last month.Crime levels are surging, with a dead body washed up on Copacabana Bay close to the beach volleyball

claimed Rio 2016 berths today after winning their respective men's semi-finals at the International Volleyball

down a huge marker ahead of their home Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro by winning the International Volleyball

The Argentine Olympic Committee (COA) has held an event to honour the mothers of the country's athletes who will compete at the Rio 2016 Games.

London.Taekwondo Olympic champion Sebastian Crismanich was one of the athletes present ©Getty ImagesBeach volleyball

Brazil’s Talita Antunes and Larissa Franca retained their title at the International Volleyball Federation

Brazil will meet United States in the final of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) World Grand

home Olympics in Rio de Janeiro next month, where they will be among the big home hopes for gold in a volleyball-mad

their victory.USA coach Karch Kiraly said: “Russia have a very good programme in women’s and men’s volleyball

Twelve players have been selected for Canada's debut in the women's sitting volleyball tournament at

By qualifying for and competing at the Paralympic Games in women's sitting volleyball, we have reached

a new level of excellence,'' said Ian Halliday, the high performance director of sitting volleyball

for Volleyball Canada.

wheelchair racing champion, gave the team her support.Canada have qualified for a Paralympic sitting volleyball

first time ©CPC"'These players have shown terrific dedication to become our first Canadian sitting volleyball

Canada and hosts Russia will battle it out for Pool A supremacy at the International Volleyball Federation

Russia advanced to the semi-finals of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) World Grand Prix

Netherlands have gone through to face Brazil.USA coach Karch Kiraly said: “We didn’t play our best volleyball