The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) have announced the BBC has been awarded broadcasting rights in the United Kingdom for Gold Coast 2018.

the UK.A total of 18 sports will be contested in Gold Coast between April 4 and 15, including beach volleyball

The National Olympic Committee of Sierra Leone (NOC-SL) has held a mini multi-sport event called “Sports Jamboree”, aimed at demonstrating the progress the country has made since the deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus.

array of sports, including football, rugby sevens, taekwondo, table tennis, athletics, handball, judo, volleyball

Polish duo Piotr Kantor and Bartosz Losiak sealed their maiden International Volleyball Federation (

FIVB) Beach Volleyball World Tour title as they clinched Rio Grand Slam gold with a straight games victory

minutes.Britta Buthe and Karla Borger of Germany were able to end the event at the Rio 2016 beach volleyball

It was rather a shock to emerge from the monotony of a British winter into a dazzling paradise of sun, heat and palm trees when in Los Angeles last week for the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) Media Summit. Or it would have been, had it not been uncharacteristically raining when I first stepped off the plane…

It is a city of firsts, in a sporting as well as a technological sense, with surfing, beach volleyball

Poland could enjoy double success at the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Beach Volleyball

champions Alison Cerutti and Bruno Oscar Schmidt battled into the quarter-finals of the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach Volleyball World Tour Rio Grand Slam after earning a tight win over Canada

pairing were given a tough test in front of a home crowd at the Copacabana Beach, which will host beach volleyball

American sixth seeds Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena to claim top spot in Pool F at the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach Volleyball World Tour Rio Grand Slam.

provided the biggest shock on the first day of the pool phase of competition at the (FIVB) Beach Volleyball

play like that against a good team, you have the opportunity to win.”The pool phase of FIVB Beach Volleyball

Russia’s Oleg Stoyanovskiy and Artem Yarzutkin continued their fine form on the (FIVB) Beach Volleyball

Carl Lewis, a nine-time Olympic gold medallist, and Andre Agassi, winner of eight Grand Slams, are among 53 members of the Los Angeles 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Athletes' Advisory Commission unveiled at a special ceremony here today.

rower and IOC Executive Board member Anita DeFrantz is another noteworthy choice, along with beach volleyball

Carla Qualtrough, Canada's Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities, has been awarded the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) International Women’s Day Recognition.

Moekie Grobbelaar, Hayat Khattab and Anne Wafula-Strike.Chang has been a pioneer for women in sitting volleyball

Beach volleyball will make its debut on the Commonwealth Games programme at Gold Coast 2018, it has

A qualification system will be developed in collaboration with the International Volleyball Federation

“The CGF Executive Board is delighted to approve the inclusion of beach volleyball in the sports program

set out in the CGF’s Transformation 2022 strategic plan and we look forward to experiencing beach volleyball

for the first time ever at a Commonwealth Games.”Beach volleyball is expected to be a stand-out sport

“It is wonderful news for beach volleyball players and for our current international athletes it is

A pair of Russian Olympic gold medallists and a speed skating world record holder have become the latest athletes to test positive for the banned substance meldonium.

positive drugs test for meldonium ©Getty ImagesMarkin has also allegedly failed a test, with Russian Volleyball

The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Beach Volleyball World Tour is set to continue tomorrow

women’s teams from 30 countries will descend on the iconic Copacabana Beach, the site of the Rio 2016 volleyball

The event is the third of the year on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour that started with three events

Greenland's capital Nuuk is gearing up to host the Arctic Winter Games, with sporting competition getting underway tomorrow.

skiing, badminton, basketball, biathlon, cross-country skiing, ice hockey, snowboarding, table tennis, volleyball