Three Dutch men’s pairings advanced to the knock-out phase of the Beach Volleyball World Championships

C.Related storiesJune 2015: Defending champions Brouwer and Meeuwsen reach knock-out stage of Beach Volleyball

World Championships after second victoryJune 2015: Cuba claim shock win at FIVB Beach Volleyball World

Championships in The NetherlandsJune 2015: Big names make winning start at Beach Volleyball World Championships

Defending men's world champions Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen secured their second win of the Beach Volleyball

Ukolova, who have won both of their matches.Related storiesJune 2015: Cuba claim shock win at FIVB Beach Volleyball

World Championships in The NetherlandsJune 2015: Big names make winning start at Beach Volleyball World

Cuba’s men claimed a shock victory over Poland of the second day of the Beach Volleyball World Championships

Related storiesJune 2015: Big names make winning start at Beach Volleyball World Championships

The United States’ newly-formed duo Nick Lucena and Theodore Brunner got their Beach Volleyball World

Despite playing three tournaments together on the North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation

NORCECA) Tour in 2013, Lucena and Brunner only joined forces for the first time on the International Volleyball

we’ll just take baby steps.”Brazil's Juliana Felisberta is making her first appearance at the Beach Volleyball

Germany held their nerve after squandering two match points in the third set of the European Games men's volleyball

defence and more clinical and precise in attack.The Germans are not one of the continent's traditional volleyball

than the second-string line-ups sent by many of their rivals, having withdrawn from the International Volleyball

submission.Related storiesJune 2015: Turkish women unexpectedly dominate Poland to earn European Games volleyball

’s first European Games gold in beach volleyballJune 2015: Switzerland seal Baku 2015 women's beach volleyball

Sierra Leone National Olympic Committee (NOCSL) President Patrick Coker congratulated the newly-appointed national executive of the Sports Writers Association of Sierra Leone (SWASAL) for conducting “peaceful and exemplary elections” in welcoming members to his office in Freetown.

400 metres athletics track, football pitch and facilities for other Olympic sports such as tennis, volleyball

Guam National Olympic Committee Chef de Mission Joey Miranda III is expecting the country's athletes to perform better at next month’s Pacific Games than at the previous two editions of the quadrennial event.

 As well as basketball and swimming, Guam’s men and women are due to be represented in beach volleyball

, boxing, golf, shooting, taekwondo, tennis, track and field, triathlon, va’a, volleyball, and weightlifting

The Turkish women’s volleyball team had vowed to “fight” to earn European Games gold here today against

“They didn't play their best volleyball today."

managed to find a silver lining among the clouds: "This was the biggest success for the Polish female volleyball

’s first European Games gold in beach volleyballJune 2015: Switzerland seal Baku 2015 women's beach volleyball

Barcelona has been celebrating the 60th anniversary of the event which launched Juan Antonio Samaranch on the road to the very top of Olympic sport. Samaranch had a leading role in organising the 1955 Mediterranean Games, the first great international sporting event to be held in the Montjuich Stadium.

This was a versatile arena which could stage basketball, boxing volleyball, roller hockey, gymnastics

The emergence of Vero chairman Mike Lee as an adviser of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games bid makes his book, The Race for the 2012 Olympics, a required text for the new contest.

All of France’s famous products were backing the bid.”Ditto the “impressive” sports plans, with beach volleyball

Another raft of venue changes have been unveiled by Boston 2024 as they seek to boost support for their under fire Olympics and Paralympics bid just five days before a Quarterly Board Meeting of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC).

wrestling and judo at Boston College’s Conte Forum and weightlifting at the Matthews Arena.Boxing, indoor volleyball

A new study has found that 49.5 per cent of Brazilians do not practice sport or partake in physical activity, with just over a year to go until the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Vision Institute, also revealed that 25.6 per cent of people who practice sports like football and volleyball

Double Olympic gold medallist Donovan Bailey surprised a family in Ontario by hand delivering their tickets for the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games on their doorstep as the countdown continues to the event getting underway on July 10.

at Toronto 2015 Pan American GamesJune 2015: Defending champions Brazil to open Pan American beach volleyball

competitionMay 2015: Toronto 2015 release indoor volleyball schedule as tickets for all remaining sport

events go on saleMay 2015: Canadian sitting volleyball squads announced ahead of Toronto 2015May 2015

The United States’ National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) have revealed the 12-man team for this summer’s Parapan American Games in Toronto. 

to miss Parapan American Games to undergo treatment for brain tumourMay 2015: Canadian sitting volleyball

squads announced ahead of Toronto 2015May 2015: Toronto 2015 release indoor volleyball schedule

The Deerfield River in western Massachusetts will play host to canoe slalom events if Boston is successful in its bid to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, it has been announced.

gymnastic and basketball events.They also recently confirmed Squantum Point Park will stage the beach volleyball