Germany and Italy each gained key victories today at the Women's European Olympic Volleyball Qualification

The Kenya Volleyball Federation (KVF) has withdrawn its men’s team from this month’s African Olympic

Egypt, reigning African Volleyball Championship gold medallists, are due to compete alongside the likes

but will take place with only 21 teams following the withdrawal of Kenya for financial reasons ©Kenya Volleyball

to compete at the biggest sporting event in the world," he said.Kenya has twice competed in women’s volleyball

With Bahrain’s Shaikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa now quoted at odds of as short as 5/6 to become the next FIFA President next month, we need to take seriously what he has to say.

global development plan, new competitions and a dedicated and increased budget…“Sports such as golf, volleyball

Russia moved to the brink of reaching the women’s European Olympic Volleyball Qualification tournament

A record 36 teams are due to participate in this year's edition of the International Volleyball Federation

(FIVB) Volleyball World League with the format of the tournament having been altered.

All 32 competing countries at the 2015 Volleyball World League will return to the premier annual men

losing in the 2015 Group 1 final ©FIVBThe preliminary round will adopt the same format as the FIVB Volleyball

came from two sets down to beat Poland in their opening Pool B match of the women’s European Olympic  Volleyball

matches at the event, which offers the winning team a place at Rio 2016, are being held at the Başkent Volleyball

Japan’s Government are reportedly putting together a law to actively discourage athletes from doping as the country builds towards the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo. 

generally has a good record on doping.Only two Japanese athletes have tested positive at the Olympics, both volleyball

Last year proved a difficult one for the Olympic Movement, with the challenge of sustaining interest in bidding for major events hardly helped by scandals in FIFA and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), which together form the biggest threat to the running of global sport in generations.

Brazilian success will be most important, however, and as well as more established footballers and volleyball

to emerge, like 17-year-old archer Marcus D’Almeida and canoe sprint talent Isaquias QueirozBeach volleyball

should be two leading Brazilians at Rio 2016 ©Getty ImagesLifting of ban on women attending Iranian volleyball

matches: The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) do not have an easy task in negotiating the

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has said that the signing of its biggest ever broadcast and commercial agreements was its number one moment of 2015.

bladed leg would give him an unfair advantage.The third best moment was the Rwandan women's sitting volleyball

More than 1,000 people attended an event in Turkey's capital Ankara ahead of the Women's European volleyball

session and free tickets to matches were handed out.All of the games will be played at the Başkent Volleyball

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has a new champion Tweeter.

Volleyball                                     82,500    @FIVBVolleyball8.

Kellogg’s has announced it will be offering five winners a £15,000 ($22,300/€20,300) trip to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games via a text-to-win competition.

Kellogg’s will run the text to win competition with winners receiving tickets to athletics, beach volleyball

Swimming marathon world champion Ana Marcela Cunha and Isaquias Queiroz, gold medallist at the Canoe Sprint World Championships, have been named Best Brazilian Athletes in 2015 at the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) awards ceremony.

pole vaulter Fabiana Murer, tennis player Marcelo Mello, modern pentathlete Yane Marques and beach volleyball

Ask any taekwondo pundit what the most dominant fighting machine in the sport is at present, and chances are good that the answer will be two words: “Mahdi Khodabakhshi.”

When not engaged in the gruelling training programme of the Iranian taekwondo athletes, he enjoys volleyball

World ParaVolley (WPV) has appointed Jim Leask, the former chairman of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Sport Management Committee and Sports Council, as its marketing director until 2018.

comprehensive strategic marketing plan to help the WPV to achieve its mission of developing the sport of volleyball

Leask, who has attended 10 Paralympic Games in various roles.Bosnia and Herzegovina won men's Para-volleyball

gold at the London 2012 Paralympics ©Getty ImagesMen's sitting volleyball was first introduced to the

defeated Iran in the men's final and China overcame the US in the women's showdown.Although sitting volleyball