By James CrookJune 17 - The coach of Russian judoka Elena Ivashchenko, who was found dead on Saturday (June 15), has claimed that she took her own life because of her failure to win a medal at last Olympic Games in London.

Last August, Sergei Ovchinnikov, coach of the Russian women's volleyball team at London 2012, also

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injury, be an Olympic archer or a canoeist; while to avoid illness you might be better off giving beach volleyball

(2.7 per cent) and track cycling (three percent).Comfortably the biggest risk for illness was beach volleyball

By Duncan MackayJune 3 - International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) President Ary Graça has expressed

his disappointment that no major beach volleyball event will be played in London this year due to lack

Volleyball England have finally conceded defeat after spending several months trying to raise commercial

agency last December to axe all financial support for Britain's indoor, sitting and men's beach volleyball

FIVB President Ary Graça is disappointed that there will be no beach volleyball event in London this

year, bemoaning the lack of support Volleyball England needed to raise £500,000 ($764,000/€588,000

We've lost the opportunity to capitalise on London 2012," Richard Callicott, President of Volleyball

By Emily GoddardMay 30 - New Zealand Football audit chair Paula Kearns has withdrawn from the historic race to become the first woman on FIFA's ruling Executive Committee on the eve of the vote in Mauritius tomorrow.

Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball," he said in 2004."

By James Crook at the Lenexpo Exhibition Complex in St PetersburgMay 30 - Istanbul has promised a unique experience that "will open a new gateway, not only to a new country but a new culture", should it be awarded the rights to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics as it gave its first major presentation to an international audience here today.

emphasising the need for new, modern facilities to avoid further regression for the nation.Turkish volleyball

PetersburgMay 27 - Honda were today unveiled as the new high-profile sponsor of international professional volleyball

The agreement with the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) will see the Japanese car manufacturer

become the title sponsor of the sport's leading events, including this year's Beach Volleyball World

"Beach volleyball will be the 'poster child' of Rio 2016 played on Copacabana Beach.

Beach volleyball has been at the forefront of entertinament," said Payne.

 "But indoor volleyball hasn't introduced the same entertainment experience around the sport."

By Emily GoddardMay 16 - The Marine Corps secured their fourth Chairman's Cup with a haul of 93 medals of the 264 awarded at the 2013 Warrior Games to outperform the other service branches at the competition, which concluded at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

field.Their win was highlighted by a 2-0 victory over the defending champions, the Army, in the sitting volleyball

By Tom DegunMay 16 - Volleyball England have unveiled Ashley Trodden as their new head coach for the

men's sitting volleyball team with Ian Legrand to take up the top job from the women's side as both target

There is a real opportunity both domestically and internationally to develop women's Sitting Volleyball

England Volleyball head of technical and excel Craig Handford welcomed the new appointments."

These are two high quality sitting volleyball coaches that have enhanced the sport both domestically

By James CrookMay 15 - Adham Sharara has been re-elected as President of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) after seeing off the challenge of European Table Tennis Union (ETTU) President Stefano Bosi.

became the 218th national association, leaving table tennis with just two less national federations than volleyball

By Tom DegunMay 6 - Canadian ice sledge hockey player Todd Nicholson has been elected as the new chair of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletes' Council for a four-year term, it was announced today.

athletes - six from summer sports and three from winter sports.The six summer sport members are sitting volleyball

By Duncan MackayApril 30 - Beach football and 3x3 basketball will feature on the programme of the inaugural European Games at Baku in 2015, which will take place between June 12 and 28 that year, it was announced today.

badminton, canoeing, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, judo, shooting, table tennis, taekwondo, triathlon, volleyball

By Emily GoddardApril 29 - Paralympic sprint champion Heinrich Popow and the scientist involved in Oscar Pistorius' original International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) case of whether his blades gave him an unfair advantage, Dr Wolfgang Potthast, have been confirmed to open the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) VISTA2013 conference on Wednesday (May 1).

discussion at the event in Bonn.IPC Sports Science Committee chair Dr Yves Vanlandewijk, Dutch sitting volleyball

By Duncan MackayApril 24 - Wellington Miller has been re-elected President of the Bahamas Olympic Committee (BOC), defeating opponent Larry Wilson by ten votes to three.

vice-president of the Bahamas Gymnastics Federation (BGF) and Joseph Smith, President of the Bahamas Volleyball

By Tom DegunApril 10 - The European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) have announced their beach volleyball

Beach volleyball will make its debut at the Youth Olympics next year as it was not included at the inaugural

By Tom DegunApril 10 - The Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB) have signed an unprecedented $60 million (£39 million/€46 million) four-year deal with Brazilian bank Caixa Econômica Federal in what is believed to be the biggest National Paralympic Committee (NPC) sponsorship agreement ever.

athletics, swimming, shooting, five-a-side football, seven-a-side football, boccia, goalball, sitting volleyball