By Gary AndersonJanuary 24 - US Paralympics, a division of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has announced the 2014 Warrior Games are set to take place at the US Olympic Training Centre and US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs from September 28 to October 4.

Over the six days of competition athletes will participate in archery, cycling, shooting, sitting volleyball

By Paul OsborneJanuary 21 - About 30 youths, aged 18-25, from across Asia have made their way to Tokyo as the city hosts its first ever Youth Leadership Programme (YLP), led by the United Nations Office of Sport for Development and Peace (UNOSDP).

Olympian volleyball player Kana Oyama took part in Olympic Festas held to inspire children in Tohoku

By Nick Butler at the Hotel Sofitel in ManilaJanuary 20 - Sports 5, the sports broadcasting arm of television network TV5, has been confirmed as the sole Philippine broadcaster of both the Sochi 2014 and Rio 2016 Olympic Games in a move set to bring unprecedented coverage of both events.

Olympics in Rio, where coverage will include the nation's favourite sports of basketball, taekwondo, volleyball

By Gary AndersonJanuary 19 – The 7th ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Para Games came to a close in Myanmar today with Indonesian athletes helping their nation to come out on top, finishing with 99 gold medals, 69 silvers and 49 bronze.

chess, football 5-a-side, football 7-a-side, goalball, powerlifting, swimming, table tennis, sitting volleyball

By David OwenIt is now nearly a decade since the London 2012 campaign revolutionised the art of producing films to support the candidacy of cities and countries competing to host sporting mega-events.Two films from the campaign are seen as classics of the genre. Since the appearance of Sport at Heart, in which David Beckham famously wrestles with a crossword and a building-site worker, hi-viz jacket and all, pole-vaults into wet cement, no bid film seemingly has been bereft of humour. Meanwhile anyone who doubts the lingering influence of Inspiration, the film actually shown to International Olympic Committee (IOC) members on...

explosion the day after London won the right to stage the 2012 Games and went on to compete as a sitting volleyball

By Emily GoddardJanuary 16 - Rugby player Kwanieze John has been named as Trinidad and Tobago's Chef de Mission for the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games.

Athletes from the nation will compete in athletics, beach volleyball, triathlon, table tennis, gymnastics

By Nick ButlerJanuary 6 - The Kuwait Olympic Committee (KOC) have elected Talal Fahad Al Sabah for as chairman, while Judo Union of Asia President Obaid al-Enezi has been named secretary general.

Board.These included figures associated with various sports, including handball through Jassem Thiab, volleyball

By Gary AndersonJanuary 6 - Japanese sports firm Mikasa Corporation has renewed its partnership with the International Korfball Federation (IKF) and will supply all match balls for its top events for the next four years.

particularly associated with football, basketball, handball, water polo and volleyball.It was the official volleyball

2012 and Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and has been the official game ball supplier for all International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) volleyball and beach volleyball competitions since 2013.Mikasa were the official ball

suppliers for the volleyball competitions at London 2012 ©Getty Images In March last year,

By Gary AndersonJanuary 6 - Officials from the Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) and the 2014 Incheon Asian Para Games Organising Committee (IAPGOC) today signed the formal agreement for the hosting of the event, at a ceremony in Kuala Lumpur.

nbsp;powerlifting, archery, badminton, cycling, rowing, wheelchair fencing, tenpin bowling, sitting volleyball

By Gary AndersonJanuary 6 - The line-ups for both the men's and women's 2014 International Volleyball

1996 champions the Netherlands were the biggest name to miss out on qualification for the men's 2014 Volleyball

staged in February, while five teams will book their spots when the North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball

insidethegames.bizRelated StoriesDecember 2013: FIVB Sports Events Council approves new four-year volleyball

By Gary AndersonJanuary 1 - With the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) set to celebrate its silver jubilee in 2014, President Sir Philip Craven has claimed in a New Year's message he wants to address the issue of gender equality and to create new female leaders within the Movement.

number of World Championships will take place this year, including in wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball

female Olympians ©BloomsburyThe book also covers the heroines of the 1964 Games, the Japanese women's volleyball

By Duncan MackayDecember 26 - Myanmar will host the 7th ASEAN ParaGames at the Wunna Theikdi Sports Complex in Naypyidaw after Singapore gave up staging the event, it has been announced.

Asian countries are expected to be involved in the ParaGames.Events will include athletics, swimming, volleyball

By Gary Anderson at the Grand Hotel TrentoDecember 21 - Ahead of officially receiving the International University Sports Federation (FISU) flag at tonight's Trentino 2013 Closing Ceremony, the President of Granada 2015 has declared here they are ready for the next Games.

while Palma de Mallorca staged the 1999 Summer Universiade.Espa, a former coach of the Spanish women's volleyball

By Nick ButlerDecember 17 - A first ever National Paralympic Week has been held in Iran to help "raise awareness and change perceptions of disability".

four in powerlifting and one for female archer Zahra Nemati, while medals were also won in sitting volleyball