By Mike RowbottomThe doors to the biggest exhibition of athletics memorabilia are now open in Barcelona as part of the International Association of Athletics Federation's (IAAF) Centenary celebrations.Items from 256BC to the present day have been assembled from all around the world for the six-week display in the Museu Olímpic i de l'Esport Juan Antoni Samaranch, next door to the 1992 Olympic stadium on Montjuïc.All the names you would expect to see are featured. There are medals won by Britain's fabled middle distance trio of Steve Ovett, Seb Coe and Steve Cram. There is a bronze of the Flying Finn,...

According to Grys' account, the 1944 POW Games had a sporting programme that included football, handball, volleyball

Bisexual, Transgender and Inter-sex (LGBTI) Sports Festival, in Kathmandu.Featuring athletics, football, volleyball

By David GoldDebate is now raging over whether London 2012 was the greatest Olympic Games ever. That, ultimately, will be a subjective judgment, to be debated endlessly but with little definitive proof. But what is certain is that this summer's Games used more temporary venues than any other major sporting event in history.

The triathlon took in Hyde Park, beach volleyball was played on the banks of the Thames by Westminster

athlete per boat; but there is a difference between these and team-only Olympic ball sports such as volleyball

By Tom DegunOctober 7 – Toronto 2015 have unveiled their plans to host the largest ever Parapan Am Games with an estimated 1,500 athletes set to compete in 15 sports including, for the first time in the history of the event, wheelchair rugby.

athletics, boccia, cycling (road and track), football, 5-a-side, goalball, judo, powerlifting, sitting volleyball

By Tom DegunOctober 7 - Carlos Nuzman will serve a fifth consecutive four-year term as Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) President after he was comfortably re-elected to the position as the sole candidate.

securing Brazil among the top-10 medal winners in 2016," said Nuzman, a professional lawyer and a former volleyball

By Tom DegunOctober 2 - Ricardo Prado, the former Brazilian swimmer and Olympic silver medallist, has been named President of the Sports Advisory Committee for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

successful Olympic and Paralympic GamesAnother key member is Bernardo Rezende, the Brazilian men's volleyball

By Tom DegunSeptember 29 - Greece’s Lambis Nikolaou, the stand-in chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission for the Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games, has praised the Chinese city in their preparations for the event following their inspection visit.

The Sports Park will be home to hockey, BMX, rugby and beach volleyball during the Games before being

By Lauren MatteraBeach volleyball has quickly established itself as one of the most popular sports featured

Jubilee, LOCOG and its technical partners were left with just 36 days to set up the temporary beach volleyball

outlay and take care of project management and overlay planning from concept to completion.The beach volleyball

tonnes of sand was donated to various sports venues around the country.Populous described the beach volleyball

successful example of the delivery team working with the design team right from the onset is the beach volleyball

the success of the "Greenest Games of our Time" as "early engagement".Although the temporary beach volleyball

By Duncan MackaySeptember 28 - Airline Emirates today announced that they have secured the naming rights to the new state-of-the-art Commonwealth Arena, which will be one of the main venues during Glasgow 2014, but will have to negotiate a separate sponsorship deal if they want it to retain its title during the Games.

competitions, and the facility will be a national training centre for athletics, basketball, netball and volleyball

of pins:- My countries: UK, Germany, South Africa, Romania, Singapore (but I didn't get that one)- Volleyball

MackaySeptember 21 - Brazilian Ary Graca was tonight elected as the new President of the International Volleyball

his promise to step down after serving one four-year term.Graca, President of both the South American Volleyball

Confederation and the Brazilian Volleyball Federation, lived up to his favourites tag.He polled 103

 Beal, the chief executive of USA Volleyball, got 86 votes and Schacht, President of the Australian

Volleyball Federation, 15.Two ballot papers were declared invalid.Graca becomes only the second

will be three candidates hoping to replace China's Jizhong Wei as President of the International Volleyball

65-year history.America's Doug Beal will be facing Ary Graca, President of both the South American Volleyball

Confederation and the Brazilian Volleyball Federation, and Chris Schacht, President of the Australian

Volleyball Federation, to replace Wei.Wei was elected by acclamation at the FIVB Congress four years

 Doug Beal, the chief executive of USA Volleyball, claims that the image of the FIVB has been "undermined

Confederation and Saleh Bin Nasser of the Asian Volleyball Confederation.Under Graça's leadership, the

By Duncan MackaySeptember 19 - Glasgow 2014 is having to start the search for a new Games Delivery Director after Jacqui Murdoch decided to leave the post to return home to Australia. 

she had been involved in several major events since 2000, when she was the venue manager for beach volleyball

By Tom DegunSeptember 17 - Rwandan sitting volleyball players James Rutikanga (pictured left) and Eric

The duo were part of the Rwandan men's sitting volleyball squad that failed to win any of their four