A key official in the running of The Ocean Race here has spoken of Aarhus’ quest to ensure it is "not only a sailing city" in its bid to stage further major events.

decades, Aarhus has hosted many events in sports other than sailing including the 2013 Men’s European Volleyball

Reigning Olympic and world champions Anders Mol and Christian Sørum of Norway won the Volleyball World

Jurmala 🇱🇻 June 15-Jun 18☀ #BeachProTourOstrava #BeachVolleyball pic.twitter.com/WH8n6PvSN6— Beach Volleyball

China, Poland and the United States finished unbeaten in the first week of the International Volleyball

Federation Volleyball Women’s Nations League.

.⏰ Full schedule: https://t.co/ln0YP9qah7🏐 #Volleyball #VNL2023 #VNL pic.twitter.com/w2x0wwkAhV—

Volleyball World (@volleyballworld) June 5, 2023Pool A, which was hosted by Antalya in Turkey, was dominated

Women 🇺🇸 are 4-0 after their first round of Volleyball Nations League.Sunday, they held on for a win

Skinner had 16 and Lanier posted 12. pic.twitter.com/1xjgFp5fqO— USA Volleyball (@usavolleyball) June

The Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) has agreed to send teams to several key international events in preparation for next year's Olympics in Paris.

including the redevelopment of the Amuwo Odofin Olympic Village comprising of a football pitch and tennis, volleyball

Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) President Mustapha Berraf believes that the upcoming African Beach Games in Tunisia will be on "another level" to the inaugural event.

countries are expected to attend with 14 sports on the programme - beach handball, beach soccer, beach volleyball

Tomorrow, the World Taekwondo Championships is set to become the latest sporting event added to the portfolio of Azerbaijan's capital Baku.

on to take centre stage when Azerbaijan's capital was awarded the inaugural European Games in 2015.Volleyball

The International School Sport Federation (ISF) has launched a call for bids to host its events between 2023 and 2028.

five individual sport events - World School Championship/Cup events in cross-country, basketball and volleyball

Approximately 1,500 participants featured in the Asian Games Fun Run organised by the Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC), aiming to build interest in Hangzhou 2022.

compete in 13 sports at Hangzhou 2022, with the BOC awaiting confirmation on basketball, football, volleyball

National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) President Paul Tergat travelled to Lausanne to hold talks with International Olympic Committee (IOC) counterpart Thomas Bach.

silver medals over 10,000 metres at both Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000.He also visited the International Volleyball

Our volleyball queens Malkia Strikers continue to give us great pride," Tergat said.

 Kenya selected 49 women and 38 men for Tokyo 2020.The women's volleyball team qualified where the

The International School Sport Federation (ISF) World School Beach Volleyball event has concluded in

Basketball player Sarah Gates from McMaster University and Tokyo 2020 Olympian swimmer Gabriel Mastromatteo from the University of Toronto have received Lois and Doug Mitchell Awards as the 2022-23 Female and Male Athletes of the Year for U SPORTS - the Canadian university sports body.

runner Andrew Peverill of Lower Sackville, McGill swimmer Pablo Collin of Marseille and Alberta volleyball

Australia's Paris 2024 Chef de Mission Anna Meares has revealed the country will again not set a medal target at next year's Olympic Games.

attendance included three-time world champion cyclist Matt Glaetzer and Australian number one beach volleyball

Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin has claimed that the Russian-Chinese Youth Summer Games which have opened this week in Chongqing will help strengthen ties between the two nations.

for the Games which feature badminton, basketball, football, rhythmic gymnastics, handball, swimming, volleyball

Chinese State Councillor Shen Yiqin has inspected several venues for this year's delayed 2022 Asian Games and Asian Para Games in Hangzhou, including the event operation headquarters.

used at the Games in Shanghai, and watched China's teams train in badminton, swimming, gymnastics, volleyball

French organisers are believed to be planning for the Flame to burn at the Eiffel Tower during next year's Olympic Games in Paris. 

May 8 next year 4 in Marseille after a sea voyage from Athens on the tall ship Belem.Olympic beach volleyball