By Duncan MackayApril 26 - The Libyan Olympic Committee (LOC) has chosen Jamal Al-Zarrug as its new President in what one official hailed as the "first fair and democratic elections in its history".

Zarrug, a former volleyball player, was elected after winning 42 votes, comfortably beating rivals Essam

13 and seven votes respectively.The 57-year-old Zarrung, a member of the Governing Board of the Arab Volleyball

By Duncan MackayApril 25 - Details of Los Angeles' proposed bid to host the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics have been published, with Californian officials claiming it is a "canvas upon which to paint a custom-made, collaborative and winning American bid".

Observatory. which sits on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood and would host some cycling events.Beach volleyball

By Paul OsborneApril 24 - Disabled people across England will once again be given the chance to try out a host of Paralympic sports as Manchester gets set to hold the third ParalympicsGB Sports Fest.

event are: Alpine skiing, boccia, football – both five and seven aside – canoeing, rowing, sitting volleyball

By Duncan MackayApril 22 - British-based international relations and communications agency JTA have been awarded a prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise in International Trade after increasing its turnover to £2.5 million ($4.2 million/€3 million), most of it coming from overseas clients linked to the Olympic Movement. 

Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), the RussianInternational Olympic University (RIOU), the International Volleyball

By Duncan MackayApril 20 - A request by the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) to host the second Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Beach Games in April 2015 instead of October 2014 has been approved, it has been announced.

between October 20 and 26, featuring six sports -football, handball, rowing, sailing, swimming and volleyball

By Gary AndersonApril 14 - Abidjan, Ivory Coast's capital, has been announced as the host of the 2017 Francophone Games.

in Ottawa, Canada, which saw the return of table tennis and handisport along with boxing and beach volleyball

Niamy, Niger, saw the return of wrestling as a demonstration sport in place of handisport and beach volleyball

in 2005.The 2009 Games in Beirut, Lebanon saw beach volleyball included instead of wrestling.The 2013

I promise.As part of the International Volleyball Federation's (FIVB) sports demonstration, a group of

the opportunity to try our luck against international pros from the German and Turkish national beach volleyball

game of volleyball.Delegates, myself included, join with the Turkish and German men's national beach volleyball

teams at the FIVB Beach Volleyball Demonstration ©JTAIt's in these moments, when I find myself diving

and teammate Finn Dittelbach, was completing a final train camp with Turkey's number one men's beach volleyball

By Nick Butler at the Susesi Convention Center in BelekApril 9 - Officials from 18 sports have complained to the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) ruling Executive Committee about preparations for Rio 2016, amid strikes by workers and a key meeting on the Games yielding no concrete measures.

meeting between the IOC and International Federations this morning in which only the International Volleyball

By Nick ButlerApril 6 - Brazil has held its own special celebration to mark the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace with an exhibition entitled "Olympic Games: Sports, Culture and Art" at the National Museum in Brasilia.

uniforms.The opening was attended by numerous Olympic medallists, including Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 volleyball

By Duncan MackayApril 3 - More than 6,000 athletes in 19 sports will compete at the inaugural European Games in Baku, it was announced today as preparations for the event were praised as being "in very good shape".

Vital ranking points will be available in beach volleyball, cycling and taekwondo while athletics and

By Duncan MackayApril 3 - American football, cheerleading, dragon boat racing, flying disc, minigolf and sport fishing are among the sports set to be included in the inaugural World Beach Games, which is expected to make its debut on the international calendar next year.

motorcycle, powerboat, rowing, rugby, sailing, sport fishing, sub-aquatics, surfing, tennis, triathlon, volleyball

By Paul OsborneApril 1 - South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has launched an investigation into seven of its winter sports federations in an effort to uncover any illegal wrongdoings and rebuild the public's trust before Pyeongchang 2018. 

inspection of nearly 3,000 sports bodies at the national, provincial and municipal levels.The Korean Volleyball

offers to resign after accusations of abuse by South Korean Olympic curling teamMarch 2014: Korean Volleyball

By Nick Butler at the Olympic Council of Asia Headquarters in Kuwait CityMarch 30 - Discussions will be held here during tomorrow's Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) Executive Council meeting on the composition of the World Beach Games ahead of a further announcement in July.

World Beach Games are basketball, beach football, beach handball, beach rugby, beach tennis, beach volleyball

By Gary AndersonMarch 26 - Nagano 1998 ice sledge hockey champion Eskil Hagen and Russian Nordic skier Mikhail Terentiev, winner of a gold medal at Salt Lake City 2002, joined Finnish Alpine skier Katja Saarinen as the three winter athletes endorsed for the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletes' Council.

body, three from winter sports and six from summer sports.The six summer sport members are sitting volleyball

People are going to have to accept that in some ways Rio 2016 is going to be different from Olympic and Paralympic Games of recent times.For there will undoubtedly be technical deficiencies, organisational problems and repeated delays - and it will be incomparable in terms of efficiency with London and Sochi.But it must not be forgotten that Rio was not awarded the Games for technical reasons and the first to be held in South America should also contain unique, beneficial and thrilling elements. The trick will be avoiding allowing the negative aspects to taint and overwhelm the positives.

perspective, but the best thing I found was how much the venues embrace Rio's history and vitality.Beach Volleyball

on Copacabana Beach will be a particular highlight ©ITGFrom the beach volleyball on Copacabana Beach

On the other you have volleyball, tennis and football players spiking, hitting and kicking on the beach

question they did not already know the answer to...But beyond football, and in Olympic sports like volleyball

administrative level as well as within the sports world - with a scandal last week over the Brazilian Volleyball