by the British Olympic Association (BOA) as the pairing that will represent Team GB in women's beach volleyball

Edinburgh will become the first athletes to represent Britain in the sport since Atlanta 1996, when beach volleyball

Team GB Chef de Mission Andy Hunt said: "We are very pleased to welcome the first beach volleyball players

Beach volleyball is a fast, skilful and exciting sport, and London 2012 represents a fantastic opportunity

The British Volleyball Federation (BVF) was founded as recently as 2006, but there has since been a steady

teamDecember 2006: Beach volleyball confident it can be successful in 2012

By Mike RowbottomJuly 3 - The Princess Royal will be a special guest at the Team GB preparation camp within Loughborough University tomorrow, where, as President of the British Olympic Association (BOA), she will be welcomed by five-time Olympic gold medallist and Team GB Ambassador Sir Steve Redgrave, Team GB Chef de Mission Andy Hunt and preparation camp director Mike Hay.

for the London 2012 Olympics - will also meet Team GB athletes from rhythmic gymnastics and women's volleyball

By David GoldJuly 3 - Beach volleyball star Natalie Cook will be competing at her fifth Olympic Games

By Tom DegunThere is cruel irony that seven years ago one of London's greatest ever days was followed directly by one of its most tragic.It was on July 6, 2005, that International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge announced that London had won the right to stage the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and across the city, people were celebrating deliriously.But those celebrations were bought to a dramatic halt less than 24 hours later when a series of coordinated terrorist suicide attacks on London's public transport system killed 52 people and injured 700 more people.

day for Paralympic sport at Stoke Mandeville in 2008 and was picked for the British women's sitting volleyball

Now the announcement of the ParalympicsGB sitting volleyball is here in central London."

The women's sitting volleyball side is less than three-years old and they will be huge underdogs against

We are the first ever women's British sitting volleyball team and we have two and a half years' experience

By David GoldJune 26 - Russia has celebrated International Olympic Day, with Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium, built for the 1980 Summer Olympics, at the heart of the festivities.

with a dedicated sports village comprising 35 different venues, allowing guests to play basketball, volleyball

Winter Games, Sochi is Russia's only sub-tropical city and its festivities included beach football, volleyball

By Sara EvansJune 25 - The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and Nike have unveiled their medal stand apparel and footwear for London 2012, with a special focus on American pride details.

sailing, swimming, synchronised swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, track and field, triathlon, volleyball

above, centre) and will be worn by podium atheletes from the basketball, field hockey, soccer, indoor volleyball

and water polo US Olympic teams.Champions in the sitting volleyball, soccer, wheelchair basketball and

By Duncan MackayJune 22 - London 2012 has today put more Olympic tickets on sale, it has been announced. 

following the finalisation of more venue seating plans.These include tickets for archery at Lord's, beach volleyball

at Horse Guards Parade, taekwondo and volleyball at ExCel, as well as a number of suite tickets at the

By Duncan MackayJune 21 - Azerbaijan is continuning to invest in a series of major new sports facilities despite the disappointment of failing to make the shortlist for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.

an area of five hectares and will include tree-storey building, a 1,000-capacity football stadium, volleyball

bombings here back on July 7 2005, will compete at London 2012 after being named in the women's sitting volleyball

It is amazing to be selected in the sitting volleyball squad to represent ParalympicsGB this summer,"

The ParalympicsGB sitting volleyball team has a truly inspiring line-up of athletes who demonstrate the

It has been a hard rehabilitation process for me but sitting volleyball has helped me physically and

We cannot wait to get in front of the home crowd and show them what a great sport sitting volleyball

sitting volleyball has met all credible performance requirements."

By Mike Rowbottom at the Prestige Pavilion on the Olympic Park in LondonJune 18 - Ninety per cent of the tickets on offer from Prestige Ticketing, London 2012's In-venue Hospitality Provider, have been sold, according to the company's chief executive, Andrew Burton.

United Kingdom allocation of eight million – have been sold; some still remain for equestrianism, beach volleyball

construct and is the flagship of four key sites, the other three being at Horse Guards Parade, for beach volleyball

By Duncan MackayJune 16 - Tessa Jowell, without whom London's bid for the 2012 Olympcis and Paralympics would not have happened, has been made a Dame in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, it was announced today. 

for Richard Callicott, the former chief executive of UK Sport, who is now the chairman of the British Volleyball

By Tom Degun at the London EyeJune 14 - Multiple Olympic sprint medallist Frankie Fredericks of Namibia and Sally Gunnell (pictured), Britain's Olympic 400 metres hurdles champion from Barcelona 1992, have helped to launch the new "Seiei" campaign from Japanese sports brand Mizuno at the London Eye.

limited edition footwear range are running shoes, such as the Wave Lightning RX and Wave Tornado 7 for volleyball

By Stuart NewmanJune 12 - American athletes will be looking good – literally – after the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) extended its tie-up with Oakley for a further eight years.

claim a spot at London 2012 were double Olympic gold medallist Kerri Walsh (pictured above), the beach volleyball

By Duncan MackayJune 11 - Britain's goalball teams will make their Paralympic debuts at London 2012 when both the men and women face the world champions and the Beijing 2008 silver medallists Lithuania in their opening matches of the tournament at the Copper Box on the Olympic Park on August 30, it was announced today.

goalball head coach March 2012: BPA endorses host country slots for goalball and women's sitting volleyball

By Tom Degun at the Harte & Garter Hotel in WindsorJune 6 - The British Olympic Association (BOA) has today named 48 rowers to represent Team GB at London 2012, making it the largest rowing squad Britain has ever assembled for an Olympic Games.

talented athletes with the potential to compete at the Olympics in the sports of rowing, handball and volleyball