Modern pentathlon, rowing and volleyball today became the latest world governing bodies to resign or

The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) has also suspended its membership, insidethegames understands.They

Team GB supporters will be able to get their hands on tickets for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro tomorrow after the British Olympic Association (BOA) announced the beginning of the online live ticket sales phase.

confirmed but not purchased.Key sports such as athletics, track cycling, swimming, rowing, and beach volleyball

A special online portal has been introduced to help spectators plan their trip to October's International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics World Championships in Doha.

of the International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond Leg circuit.Tennis, swimming and volleyball

Cyrille Mainguy has been re-elected secretary general of the Vanuatu Association of Sports And National Olympic Committee (VASANOC) during the body's Annual General Meeting in Port Vila, while it was also confirmed the Pacific nation will host next year's Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC) General Assembly.

cricket, football, hockey, judo, netball, rowing, sailing, squash, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, volleyball

Lassana Palenfo has been encouraged to stand for what would be a fourth term as President of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA), with the "vast majority" of Executive Committee members reportedly expressing their wish for him to run again.

insidethegames then that he was confident a similar event would soon be held on his continent.Beach volleyball

promoting beach sports by "encouraging African youths to take interest in them".Beach football, beach volleyball

Committees (ANOC) President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah has been presented with an International Volleyball

of next year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where the sport is set to be among the highlights in volleyball-mad

“Volleyball has been radically increasing its participation around the world in recent years and for

to Lausanne early next month for the latest ANOC Executive Council meeting, is likely to see beach volleyball

on the arrest of Anglo-Iranian Ghoncheh Ghavami, ostensibly for violating a ban on women attending volleyball

should be kept out of the sports world.Related stories:November 2014: Woman jailed for watching volleyball

Former International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge has vowed to increase sporting opportunities for South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia following a visit to the Gambella region.

the lives of the young population.Honorary IOC President Rogge watched refugees play football and volleyball

staff and attended various sporting events going on in the Gambella part of Ethiopia such as football, volleyball

The Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) has awarded an International Olympic Committee (IOC) certified diploma to 12 graduates from its inaugural Advanced Sport Management Course (ASMC).

Trinidad and Tobago Canoe/Kayak Federation, and Daymian Stewart, President of the Trinidad and Tobago Volleyball

Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) President John Coates has accused the Australian Senate of a lack of support in their battle to tackle doping in sport in the country.

commentators forget that the highly professional team sports of football, ice hockey, basketball and volleyball

Reigning Olympic women’s indoor volleyball gold medallists Brazil will open their Toronto 2015 Pan American

Centre when they play the Dominican Republic.Elsewhere in Group A, Argentina entertain Cuba and the volleyball

set to be one of the most enthralling as seven of the top 15 countries are due to compete.The indoor volleyball

tickets are on sale and schedules for many of the competitions have been released, including today’s volleyball

American Games, which run from July 10 to 26, can do so here.Related storiesMay 2015: Canadian sitting volleyball

Canadian sitting volleyball squads for both the men's and women's competitions have been unveiled ahead

Canada's women will be hoping to make the podium for the first Parapan American Games sitting volleyball

This is the first time that there is a women's division for sitting volleyball in the Parapan Am Games

British Para-athletes Julie Rogers and Ben Rowlings have been announced as the latest BT Ambassadors at a mentoring session in Loughborough.

IPC) World Athletics Championships in the Qatari capital of Doha in October.Rogers, a former sitting volleyball

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has praised Vanuatu for its rebuilding effort since the devastating impact of Cyclone Pam earlier this year, as he discussed how to distribute the grant of $500,000 (£330,000/€440,000) promised to the Pacific island nation.

visited a hockey and multisport centre catering for basketball, football, futsal, table tennis, boxing, volleyball

editions of the Commonwealth and Pacific Games.No Olympic medals have yet been won, although women's beach volleyball

to open first national sport museumNovember 2013: Funding crisis may halt Vanuatu women's beach volleyball

The last thing I expected when being driven back to Durban’s King Shaka airport following the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) Evaluation Commission’s four-day visit was to be questioned by my taxi driver about the political situation in Britain, ahead of the country’s General Election on Thursday (May 7).After providing an over-complicated run-down of how Britain’s political system works, I explained that when the ballot papers are counted and a result is announced it is anticipated another coalition Government will form, with either David Cameron or Ed Miliband in charge.Effectively a marriage of convenience.

Located on the beachfront, where naturally beach volleyball would be held during the Games it has the

Ticket provider Kingdom Sports Group are "thrilled" with the response one month after the opening of its sales window for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, with applications having surpassed those for London 2012 over the same period. 

Not surprisingly, there has been a lot of interest in the beach volleyball at Copacabana.