this week for a conference aiming to learn from team sports, including American football and beach volleyball

basketball and ice hockey.Insights from newly popular sports including rugby sevens, BMX and beach volleyball

By Emily GoddardFebruary 22 - Dato Zainal Abu Zarin, President of the Asian Paralympic Committee (APC), has spoken of the "great and encouraging progress" made by Incheon 2014 ahead of this year's Asian Para Games.

and officials to compete across 23 sports, namely athletics, swimming, five-a-side football, sitting volleyball

the ski-cross - after she went a mammoth 0.01 of a second faster than Ophelie David of France...Beach Volleyball

Zhurova, took time out from her official duties today to challenge some of her volunteer team to a beach volleyball

She added: "Sochi is such a versatile sports city, and volleyball is a versatile sport.

International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) President Ary Graça also described how "volunteers make the

And today's little game just goes to show - volleyball really is a game for everyone, everywhere!"

karate kata, kitefoil racing, park skateboarding, beach soccer, open water swimming, beach tennis, beach volleyball

Beach volleyball to you," she retorted coldly...There was no answer that.

Radisson Blue Paradise Hotel in SochiFebruary 10 - Ary Graça, President of the International Federation of Volleyball

he also plans to emulate ice hockey in speeding up the use of substitutions due to the fact that, in volleyball

The London 2012 beach volleyball competition provided a boost to the sport ©Getty Images"Today we have

40 countries in Africa playing beach volleyball and we also have a very strong social development programme

Volleyball is the sport of the family because it is non-contact so can be played together by people of

calendar June 2013: Decision to scrap London beach volleyball event disappoints FIVB President  September

By Zjan ShirinianFebruary 10 - A contract for designing and installing seats, hospitality units and other infrastructure at the Ryder Cup in Gleneagles in September has been awarded to Arena Group.

number of structures for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, including the 15,000 capacity beach volleyball

By Gary AndersonFebruary 7 - International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) President Ary S.

I have no doubt that, under the direction of President Graça, volleyball has an exciting and innovative

Olympic University offering scholarshipsDecember 2013: FIVB Sports Events Council approves new four-year volleyball

encouraging gender equity by introducing more mixed events, "I don't know how to implement it in my sport, in volleyball

McCartney, "we will work it out".I must confess this left me with the faintly sinister image of a "smart" volleyball

By Gary AndersonFebruary 5 - The International Federation for sitting volleyball, World ParaVolley, has

Created by Briton Matt Rogers, VolleySLIDE focusses on the accessible and inclusive nature of sitting volleyball

and encourages mass integrated participation at club level.Rogers worked at London 2012 as the volleyball

the past month alone.Iran and Bosnia and Herzegovina have been the dominant forces in men's sitting volleyball

winning seven Paralympic titles between them ©Getty Images Sitting volleyball made its debut at the

part of the programme at Arnhem 1980.Hosts the Netherlands claimed the first gold medal in sitting volleyball

By Emily GoddardFebruary 5 - European Sports Federations will receive a share from a €2.5 million (£2.1 million/$3.4 million) funding pot for their participation in the inaugural European Games taking place in Baku in 2015, European Olympic Committees (EOC) President Patrick Hickey has revealed.

ImagesSo far seven sports - cycling, shooting, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, triathlon and beach volleyball

By Zjan ShirinianFebruary 5 - The Mediterranean resort hosting April's SportAccord International Convention has been praised for building an "incredibly strong" profile in sport.

including athletics, swimming, gymnastics, boxing, fencing, judo, wrestling, handball, basketball, volleyball

By Gary AndersonFebruary 2 - Trinidad and Tobago hosted a three-day seminar aimed at improving the quality of coaching in Olympic and Paralympic sports across the Caribbean region.

course which saw 24 coaches from sports, including kayaking, kickboxing, athletics, tennis, football, volleyball

respective sizes of the Summer and Winter Games should be evened up by transferring some indoor sports - volleyball

By Gary AndersonJanuary 27 - Norwegian Eskil Hagen, who won ice sledge hockey gold at Nagano 1998, is one of only three winter sport nominations received by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) for its Athletes' Council, it has been announced today.

Athletes' Council - are the current winter sport representatives.The six summer sport members are sitting volleyball