By Emily GoddardLA84 Foundation, the legacy programme of the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games, has announced it is to provide some $477,814 (£302,688/€384,249) in funding for 15 local community youth sport programmes in its latest round of grants.

Southern California and will support a number of disciplines, including basketball, soccer, swimming, volleyball

relying on THINK Together to provide after school sport for their students after state budget cuts.The volleyball

appropriate phrase - in a stinking Iranian jail for the heinous crime of trying to watch an international volleyball

though dual nationality is not recognised in Iran) was arrested in June after attending an International Volleyball

incident happened in Saudi Arabia she'd probably have been given 100 lashes too.Iran barred women from volleyball

as it is not terribly convenient to do so, and claim they have no influence over next year's Asian Volleyball

By Emily GoddardThe Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) has launched a lottery project to help raise money to help send the country's athletes to the 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby.

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

, and voiced his opinions on a range of other issues, from the woman jailed in Iran for attending a volleyball

By Duncan MackayIran has been stripped of the right to host the 2015 International Volleyball Federation

and a ban on women attending matches is lifted.Mahmoud Afshardoost, secretary general of the Iranian Volleyball

for attending an FIVB World League match in June between Iran and Italy, or a ban on women attending volleyball

they had already been scheduled.They have also claimed they had no influence over next year's Asian Volleyball

Championships recently awarded to Iran.The event had been awarded to Tehran by the Asian Volleyball

international condemnation over the imprisonment of  Ghavami and the blanket ban on women attending volleyball

By Nick Butler at the Centara Convention Centre in BangkokNational Olympic Committees must work in conjunction with Baku 2015 to help public awareness of the first European Games, they were warned here today. 

Iconic venues, including the Crystal Hall in which boxing and volleyball will take place, will be part

By Nick Butler There will be no events awarded to Iran by  the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB

It also does not include the 2015 Asian Volleyball Championships, awarded to Tehran even though there

President Ary S Graça has expressed support for Ghoncheh Ghavami, the woman jailed for attending a volleyball

controlled events such as World Championships, especially under age, until the ban on women attending volleyball

This did not include other volleyball tournaments nor next year's World League tournament as the FIVB

The FIVB have also promised to review the decision by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) to award

By Nick Butler at the Centara Convention Centre in BangkokLondon 2012 800 metres champion David Rudisha was a big winner here tonight at the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) Gala Awards Ceremony, with the United States and Russian Olympic Committees also honoured.

male and female ice hockey victories, while the French men's handball team and the Brazilian women's volleyball

By Paul OsborneThe head coach of Switzerland's national women's ice hockey team, René Kammerer, has been presented with the Swiss Olympic Lifetime Coach Award for his contribution to the team over the past decade.

Orienteering coach Patrik Thoma was presented with the award for youth individual sports, while beach volleyball

By Daniel Etchells at the IMD Business School in LausanneHanne Sejer, deputy chief executive of Sport Event Denmark, has claimed generating the support of the Danish public and Government to bid for major events has not been an issue there, despite the problems that many European countries have faced.

Denmark has staged the World Road Cycling Championships, the European Volleyball Championships and the

"We have also hosted, for instance, the European Championships in volleyball, and [the sport] is not

By Paul Osborne The Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) will provide coverage of next year's inaugural European Games in Japan following an agreement with Baku 2015, it has been announced. 

serves as the home of The Masters, The PGA Championship, Major League Baseball and the International Volleyball

Federation World Volleyball Championships in Japan."

cultures must be respected when considering the woman jailed for a year after attending an International Volleyball

Women have been banned from attending volleyball matches since 2012, although Ghavami was officially 

are yet to confirm whether they will take any action against Iran, who are due to host the 2015 Asian Volleyball

World League match in Iran resumes hunger strikeNovember 2014: Brother of woman jailed for attending volleyball

By Paul Osborne at the Aspire Dome in DohaWilfried Lemke, special adviser of the secretary general of the United Nations on Sport for Development and Peace, has demanded an explanation from the Iranian Government in Geneva on the imprisonment of British-Iranian citizen Ghoncheh Ghavami, he revealed here.

a 25-year-old law student based in London, was arrested on June 20 after attending an International Volleyball

-year long rule banning women from attending football matches in the Islamic nation was extended to volleyball

her sentence nor whether they will take any action against Iran, who are due to host the 2015 Asian Volleyball

World League match in Iran resumes hunger strikeNovember 2014: Brother of woman jailed for attending volleyball

verdictOctober 2014: IOC and FIVB letters calling for release of woman jailed in Iran for attending volleyball

ButlerGhoncheh Ghavami, the British-Iranian woman sentenced to a year in jail for attempting to attend a volleyball

verdict remains still to be given.Ghavami was arrested on June 20 after attending an International Volleyball

the Evin Prison in Tehran before news of her sentence emerged.Women have been banned from attending volleyball

Free Ghoncheh Ghavami".They called for "a big thanks to President [Ary S] Graça and the international volleyball

at [email protected] storiesNovember 2014: Brother of woman jailed for attending volleyball

verdictOctober 2014: IOC and FIVB letters calling for release of woman jailed in Iran for attending volleyball

British-Iranian woman Ghoncheh Ghavami, reportedly given a year's jail sentence for attending an International Volleyball

-year long rule banning women from attending football matches in the Islamic nation was extended to volleyball

have the right to get into the stadiums and Iran also had a formal agreement with the International Volleyball

in jailOctober 2014: IOC and FIVB letters calling for release of woman jailed in Iran for attending volleyball

ignoredOctober 2014: Exclusive: FIVB urges Iranian President to "reconsider" jailing of woman for attending volleyball