The Brazil Olympic Committee (COB) has played host to a meeting of coaches from across sport, allowing them to share experiences and ideas aimed at ensuring a strong performance by the host nation at Rio 2016.

Approximately 50 professionals from various Olympic sports took part in the meeting, including Brazil’s men’s volleyball

Rezende.Bernardinho, as he is more commonly known, is considered the most successful coach in the history of volleyball

Bernardo Rezende, coach of Brazil's men's volleyball team, was among those in attendance at the meeting

Organisers of this month's International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) World Tour Open event in Iran have

banning women from attending football matches in the Islamic nation was controversially extended to volleyball

awarding the event to Iran last November.Kish Island resort is due to host the event, the first FIVB Beach Volleyball

believe will prove successful.Ghoncheh Ghavami was jailed for violating the ban on women attending volleyball

Graça looks odds on for a second term as President of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB)

signed by the five continental Presidents, including Aleksandar Boricic, President of the European Volleyball

Confederation (CEV), and African Volleyball Confederation (CAVB) head Amr Elwani.South American Volleyball

Confederation (CSV) President Rafael Lloreda Currea, Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) head Saleh

Ahmad Bin Nasser and North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation (NORCECA) chief Cristobal

The beach volleyball competitions, which will take place on the world famous Copacabana Beach, could

Athletes competing at the Budapest 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics would travel to many events via boats along the River Danube, bid officials revealed here today, insisting they are a “safe option” in the four-horse race.

either in Szeged or in the city centre itself on the Danube.Preliminary matches in basketball, football, volleyball

Last night’s International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Aquatics Gala took place in the iconic Vigadó Concert Hall here in Budapest. Built in 1859 on the eastern bank of the Danube, the grand old building - the city's second-largest concert venue - required 36 years of renovation following the destruction of World War Two, but is now fully restored and filled once again with elegant arches and beautiful paintings.

FINA have also followed the likes of the World Taekwondo Federation and International Volleyball Federation

Twelve sports will be contested at the 2017 Youth Parapan American Games in São Paulo - an increase of two from the last edition of the event in Buenos Aires.

The Americas Paralympic Committee (APC) has announced that cerebral palsy (CP) football and sitting volleyball

“We are delighted to welcome CP Football and sitting volleyball to the sports programme as it is important

Less than a decade ago, the Youth Olympic Games did not even exist, but some 1,100 sporting youngsters will descend on the Norwegian town of Lillehammer for the second edition of the Winter event, due to take place from February 12 to 21.

The sports were tailored to young people and included basketball and volleyball, not then a part of

A World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) delegation led by the body's President Chungwon Choue has met with Nepalese Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli in Kathmandu ahead of a visit to local refugee camps.

for their visit, noting that Nepal is moving forward on the sports front.One of either taekwondo, volleyball

World Olympians Association (WOA) treasurer Patrick Singleton will replace Senegal's Amadou Dia Ba as the WOA representative on the International Olympic Committee's Athletes' Commission following Rio 2016, it has been announced.

former IOC Athletes' Commission chair himself - have also been selected along with Australian beach volleyball

Prospective athletes for the British team to compete at the Invictus Games received a royal visit today as Prince Harry attended the trials at the University of Bath Sports Training Village.

wheelchair basketball, road cycling, powerlifting, indoor rowing, wheelchair rugby, swimming, sitting volleyball

Women who may be pregnant are being urged by the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) to carefully consider whether to attend this summer's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro due to growing fears over Zika virus.

several cases of women who are pregnant competing in the Olympics.Notable examples include American beach volleyball

She took part in the beach volleyball at Atlanta 1996 while four months pregnant.Precautions are not

Taipei have opened the international tender process for catering management consultancy services for the 2017 Summer Universiade.

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

Powerlifters have become the final beneficiaries of the Agitos Foundation’s Road to Rio 2016 workshops with the programme drawing to a close ahead of the Powerlifting World Cup, which doubled as a Paralympic test event.

training camps with powerlifters, who had already participated in sessions with Brazilian sitting volleyball

IPC Powerlifting Open Americas Championships in Mexico, athletes and coaches from goalball, sitting volleyball

Wushu will be included at the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku, the sport’s governing body has confirmed.

programme.Archery, badminton, diving, equestrian, fencing, handball, karate, table tennis, taekwondo, swimming, volleyball

Whisper it softly, but our sporting scandalometer was slightly steadier last week. We had the odd moment here and there: a Russian European Games boost and more FIFA Presidential manifestos, and tennis stepped up to the breach, of course, with a new spin placed on old allegations about match fixing.But the lack of major developments in the ever-escalating athletics and football dramas gave us more time to focus on other issues, including the still uncertain preparations for Rio 2016 after another chaotic week, which began with celebrations marking 200 days until the Opening Ceremony.

abandoned, meaning a loss of 4,000 seats, with a reduction also mooted at the Copacabana Bay beach volleyball

The widely reported beach volleyball reduction, for example, turned out to be untrue and the result

The confusion over the volleyball reports would have been helped by a general correcting statement being