Work to construct the beach volleyball venue for this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro has begun

where Olympic matches will take place - as well as five training courts and two warm-up courts.Beach volleyball

medals.Organisers claim that the sport is among the most "in-demand" ticket-wise, behind only athletics, team volleyball

March ©Getty ImagesRio de Janeiro has organised 16 men's tournaments sanctioned by the International Volleyball

The Olympic venue for judo and wrestling at Rio 2016 has been officially inaugurated.

1 as the Olympic venue neared completion.The Riocentro Pavilion 6, the venue for boxing and sitting volleyball

Five pilot projects have been launched by the Austrian Olympic Committee (ÖOC) in order to help encourage refugees in the country to take up sport.

enjoyed free trial training in sports including boxing, football, kickboxing, swimming, gymnastics and volleyball

There was a tame end to the men's competition at the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Antalya

Hosts Japan made it two wins out of two at the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Women's Rio

Germany’s Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst captured their second International Volleyball Federation

placement by a women’s or men’s Finnish team since the start of internationally-sanctioned beach volleyball

The Latvian Olympic Committee (LOC) has hosted talks on sports medicine and anti-doping in its capital Riga.

courtesy of Maris Strombergs in the men's BMX.They won one further medal, a bronze in the men's beach volleyball

Katrin Holtwick and Ilka Semmler set up an all German semi-final at the International Volleyball Federation

Christiaan Varenhorst and Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen made successful returns to International Volleyball

Rio 2016’s boxing and sitting volleyball venue Riocentro Pavilion 6 has been officially unveiled today

exhibition and convention centre, will then be switched to a Paralympic venue, where it will stage sitting volleyball

Barbora Hermannova and Markéta Sluková made an impressive start to the defence of their International Volleyball

The United States’ Sarah Rudder took her 2016 Invictus Games medal tally to seven today after winning two golds and three silvers in front of a home crowd in Orlando.

third in 41.05.The United States proved too strong for defending champions Great Britain in the sitting volleyball

amputated two years ago.Elsewhere today at the Invictus Games, the US claimed gold in the sitting volleyball

male pairings that advanced from the country quota matches on the opening day of the International Volleyball

The Pacific Games Council (PGC) has unanimously approved extending the amount of sports Australia and New Zealand compete in at the 2019 edition of the event in Tonga, executive director Andrew Minogue has told insidethegames.

weightlifting.Under the changes, the two nations will now also additionally compete in athletics, beach volleyball

Last week for me was a lesson in politics. A lesson in electioneering, backroom deals and ruthless efficiency; starting in a luxury but virtually empty resort hotel in Brasilia and ending, equally eerily, in the serene stillness of a Sunday morning in London’s financial epicentre at Canary Wharf.

“Remember he is an athlete,” said one observer of the 74-year-old ex-volleyball player.