By Nick ButlerFernando Lima has begun his duties as the first International Volleyball Federation (FIVB

With Mr Lima focusing on the communication, marketing and commercial side of volleyball - areas in which

The new post is the latest in a raft of reformist changes undergone at the International Volleyball Federation

following claims he was linked to corruption between 2010 and 2013 while he was head of the Brazilian Volleyball

to teach English to refereesSeptember 2014: President Graça gets rocket science right as FIVB uses Volleyball

World Championship in Poland as "launch pad" for Rio 2016February 2014: Volleyball needs better role

By Daniel EtchellsQatar has celebrated its National Sport Day with more activities than ever before taking place across the nation for all ages, abilities and fitness.

Qatar's 2014 World Championship winning 3x3 basketball team, Yassin Ismail Musa, captain of Qatar's volleyball

By Nick ButlerA new website has been launched by World ParaVolley as the organisation continues its ongoing marketing and modernisation drive.

all the latest news from each ParaVolley zone as well as for upcoming major tournaments.Men's sitting volleyball

Although sitting volleyball is the only Para-volley discipline currently on the Paralympic programme,

[email protected] storiesJanuary 2015: Russia unbeaten on path to Pajulahti Games sitting volleyball

By Mike RowbottomQatar's achievement in becoming the first non-European nation to reach the final of the Men's World Handball Championships shows this Gulf state is now a serious sporting competitor at world level, claimed Sheikh Saoud Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, general  secretary of the Qatar Olympic Committee.

halls following the Championships, with the ability to host a variety of sports including basketball, volleyball

By Nick ButlerSporting equipment worth GMD D2,103,465 (£33,000/$45,400/ €43,100) has been distributed to sporting associations by the Gambia National Olympic Committee (GNOC) following a grant allocated by the Japanese Government. 

responsible for athletics, basketball, handball and volleyball.This included three sets of nets and posts for volleyball

By Nick ButlerTaekwondo will make its Paralympic debut at Tokyo 2020, it was decided by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board today, meaning a total of 22 sports will feature, but sailing and football seven-a-side will miss out.

cycling, equestrian, football seven-a-side, goalball, judo, powerlifting, rowing, shooting, sitting volleyball

By Duncan MackayInternational Cycling Union (UCI) President Brian Cookson has admitted they "dropped the ball" over the sport's application to be part of the programme for the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo but is confident they will be among the sports included.

, archery, badminton, bocci, equestrian dressage, goalball, powerlifting, rowing, shooting, sitting volleyball

By Emily GoddardTickets for the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games Opening Ceremony have sold out and ones for gold medal events are selling fast, the Organising Committee has revealed.

the men's football gold medal game, and aquatics, track cycling, BMX, canoeing and kayaking, beach volleyball

men's baseball and basketball gold medal matches, and the 100 metres, 4x100m relay, beach and indoor volleyball

By Daniel EtchellsChungwon Choue, President of the World Taekwondo Federation, has claimed his sport would add "something unique and very powerful" to Tokyo 2020 as the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) gets set to make its final decision on the sports programme on Saturday (January 31).

athletics, archery, badminton, boccia, equestrian, goalball, powerlifting, rowing, shooting, sitting volleyball

By David OwenBrazil's brightest current football star Neymar has said he hopes to help his country win its first men's Olympic football gold medal at South America's first Olympic Games next year in Rio de Janeiro.

He went on: "I also want to see Brazil compete in volleyball, basketball, swimming and judo."

partial olive branch to their critics by allowing foreign women to attend matches at this summer's Asian Volleyball

after British-Iranian woman Ghoncheh Ghavami was arrested last June after attending an International Volleyball

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

After Iran's men won the Asian Games gold medal and finished sixth at the World Championships, volleyball

the continental Championships, due to take place from July 31 to August 8, were awarded by the Asian Volleyball

scandalNovember 2014: Iran lose right to host 2015 Boys' Under-19 World Volleyball Championships as

By Nick ButlerLevels of sports participation in England have taken a severe dip two years after the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, figures released today have indicated. 

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By Emily GoddardYuko Arakida, chair of the Olympic Council of Asia's (OCA) Athletes' Committee, has hailed the success of the second Asian Athletes' Forum. 

stakeholders, took place in Kuwait and was attended by some 125 participants.Arakida, a Japanese Olympic volleyball

change with respect to archery, modern pentathlon, aquatics and judo.And when our eyes fastened on volleyball

Arena carried a $200 million (£133 million/€178 million) price-tag in the bid book, the International Volleyball

By Liam MorganGreat Britain's Corie Mapp made history as he became the first-ever gold medallist at the inaugural International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (FIBT) Para-bobsleigh World Cup event at Igls, Austria.

Bissonnette took third place, 0.22 seconds behind Mapp, who also represents Great Britain in sitting volleyball