By Emily GoddardAn outline of the competition schedule has been released for next year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. 

earlier.The competition is then due to begin on August 6 with events in archery, basketball, beach volleyball

artistic gymnastics, handball, hockey, judo, rowing, rugby, shooting, swimming, table tennis, tennis, volleyball

By Daniel EtchellsNestlé Azerbaijan has signed an agreement with Baku 2015 which will see it serve as the official confectionery supplier at the inaugural European Games.

archery, athletics, boxing, cycling, judo, shooting, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, triathlon, volleyball

By Emily GoddardA commemorative book to celebrate the centenary of the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) has been launched.

headquarters.The launch event was attended by Brazilian athletes, both past and present, including beach volleyball

Emanuel Rego, Evandro Junior, Juliana Felisberta, Maria Elisa Antonelli, Adriana Samuel and Pedro Cunha, volleyball

By Emily GoddardFiji has staged a National Sports Science Conference ahead of this year's Pacific Games in Port Moresby.

swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, rugby sevens, triathlon, touch rugby, va'a, indoor and beach volleyball

By Nick ButlerPoland made swift amends for the embarrassment of a record defeat at the International Paralympic Committee Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships B-Pool with a 3-0 win over Austria in Ostersund. 

in a seven minute spell in the second period.Radoslaw Drapala, also a national champion in sitting volleyball

By Nick Butler at the Lakai Sandpine Resort Hotel in GangneungKorean Air has been unveiled as an official Tier One partner for the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Games here today, as similar deals with many other companies were promised for later this year. 

In that time, the airline giant has become heavily involved in sport, sponsoring the national men's volleyball

By Liam Morgan at the Lemigo Hotel in KigaliLamine Diack, President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), has given his backing to Paris' increasingly-likely bid to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 

Cycling World Championships to make case for Paris 2024February 2015: Archery at Invalides and beach volleyball

By Daniel EtchellsKosovo has been accepted as the 215th national member federation of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), it has been announced.

allows the country to play friendlies but not compete in tournaments.But athletics, shooting, tennis and volleyball

By Emily GoddardBaku 2015 has signed a deal with national broadcaster Azerbaijan Television and Radio Broadcasting CJSC (AzTV) to air coverage of this year's inaugural European Games in the host country.

Liga championship and Copa del Rey, Formula 1, the Azerbaijani Topaz Premier League and the national volleyball

By Liam Morgan in KigaliA series of sporting events to mark International Women's Day have been held here by the Rwanda National Olympic and Sports Committee (RNOSC), with "break the silence against sexual violence" the key theme.

as 35 women competed in a 10 kilometres race, before both men and women took part in a mixed beach volleyball

shifted between events like bobsleigh and luge, cross-country skiing and biathlon, indoor and beach volleyball

By Daniel EtchellsGeorges Guelzec, the President of the European Union of Gymnastics, has given his backing to Paris' ever more likely bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 

Cycling World Championships to make case for Paris 2024 February 2015: Archery at Invalides and beach volleyball

Scheidt has returned from every one of his five Olympic regattas with a medal - two of them gold, Beach volleyball

players Sandra Pires and Jackie Silva would surely be popular as would the appearance of the women's volleyball

By Michael PavittThis year's Volleyball World League Group 1 Finals will be played at the Maracanãzinho

The Finals will also act as the test event for the volleyball competition for the 2016 Olympics which

will be held in the same venue, the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) confirmedVolleyball has

strikes deal with Beach Major Company as Swatch returns as Major Series sponsorDecember 2015: Rio 2016 volleyball

By Daniel Etchells at the Fairmont Hotel in BakuBaku 2015 has confirmed an agreement with Poland's biggest private television network Polsat to broadcast the inaugural European Games, while the event's chief operating officer Simon Clegg has said here that Danish station TV 2 has followed suit. 

' Wimbledon Championships, cycling's 2015 World Road Race Championships, the 2015 and 2017 European Volleyball