By Emily GoddardRwanda has revealed it is aiming to send its largest ever Paralympic team to Rio 2016. 

athletes to the London 2012 Paralympics, where they competed in athletics, powerlifting and sitting volleyball

visit to the site for the Beach Arena, a temporary construction which will stage beach soccer and beach volleyball

Eurovision Song Contest in 2012, the venue is undergoing an upgrade ahead of Baku 2015, where it will host volleyball

By Emily GoddardThe Iranian Wrestling Federation has announced it will launch its first ever belt wrestling programme for women in the country to train and compete in the sport.

following the arrest of British-Iranian woman Ghoncheh Ghavami last June for attending an International Volleyball

have been banned from attending football matches for quarter-of-a-century and that was extended to volleyball

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matches in Iran November 2014: Woman arrested in Iran for watching volleyball freed on bailNovember

2014: Iran lose right to host 2015 Boys' Under-19 World Volleyball Championships as FIVB get tough over

By Emily GoddardThe International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) has signed two major deals today, with

Beach Major Company - a joint venture between Hannes Jagerhofer and Red Bull - is aimed at making beach volleyball

This new partnership is the next step in the FIVB's mission to ensure that volleyball is the world's

Like the FIVB and volleyball, Red Bull is a dynamic, global brand and I look forward to working together

to ensure that the FIVB's beach volleyball events are a memorable spectacle for fans around the world

Finally, today we are announcing the renewal of the relationship between beach volleyball and one of

By Nick ButlerWei Jizhong, one of China's top sports officials and a key advisor for the Beijing's bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, has claimed the Chinese capital is now "50-50" with rival bidder Almaty to be awarded the Games.

Almaty," Jizhong, a former Chinese Olympic Committee vice-president and President of the International Volleyball

By Duncan Mackay at the Windsor Atlântica Hotel in Rio de JaneiroA new coalition of human rights and sports groups, as well as trade unions, have written to International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach urging them to ensure they make sure host cities have it enshrined in their contracts that they protect labour rights and free speech. 

accused of withholding wages from workersNovember 2014: Iran lose right to host 2015 Boys' Under-19 World Volleyball

By Michael PavittThe Oman Olympic Committee (OOC) have announced that they will hold their Ordinary General Assembly on March 31, following a Board meeting in Muscat.

Mission for the event that will take place from April 2 to 9, with competitions in beach football, beach volleyball

By Daniel EtchellsThe European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) has unveiled a new mobile app, allowing

media portfolio with a YouTube channel the following month ahead of the ongoing 2014-2015 CEV DenizBank Volleyball

Stars in Motion" videos, highlighting the best action from CEV competitions, and a variety of other volleyball

and beach volleyball videos.Users of the European Volleyball Confederation mobile app will have access

Rainer Geier said: "We are happy that we continue to expand our long-term cooperation with the European Volleyball

By David OwenThe political leader of the region surrounding Paris has seized on today's opening of the 2015 International Cycling Union (UCI) Track Cycling World Championships at the Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines to highlight the French capital's case for hosting the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics.

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MorganBaku 2015 today confirmed the list of 25 participating countries who will compete in the beach volleyball

at the European Games ©Baku 2015"Beach volleyball is a modern Olympic discipline gaining more and more

The sport is due to take place at The Beach Arena, a temporary facility that volleyball will share with

The European Games will allow beach volleyball to gain new fans in Azerbaijan and across Europe," he

The beach volleyball competitions, scheduled to take place June 16 to 21, are expected to be extremely

The European Volleyball Confederation welcomes the announcement of the teams qualified for Baku 2015,

By Duncan MackayKosovo have been accepted as a member of the International Swimming Federation (FINA), it was announced today.

But athletics, basketball, shooting, tennis and volleyball have yet to grant Kosovo any kind of recognition

By Liam MorganThe 2015 African Women's Club Volleyball Championship will be held in Egyptian capital

6, will pit Africa's best club sides against each other.The Championships, organised by the African Volleyball

clinched the 2014 title in Tunisia, and they were subsequently awarded a wild card for the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Volleyball Women's Club World Championship in Zurich.Egypt has been plagued with sporting

By David OwenCycling at Versailles; fencing in the Grand Palais; and beach volleyball on the Champs de

By Duncan MackayThe American Samoa National Olympic Committee (ASNOC) has received a welcome funding boost which has coincided with it launching a new logo in time for this year's Pacific Games. 

basketball, bodybuilding, boxing, golf, rugby, softball, swimming, table tennis, tennis, weightlifting and volleyball

By Liam MorganThe United States Olympic Committee (USOC) announced today DICK'S Sporting Goods as its latest sponsor. 

future Olympic and Paralympic stars ©Getty ImagesKerri Walsh Jennings, the three-time Olympic beach volleyball