By Duncan MackayOctober 8 - The first-ever South Asian Beach Games has opened in Hambantota, an event the Sri Lankan city hopes to use to promote its bid to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Lanka in taking part in a series of sports, including basketball, football, handball, kabbadi, netball, volleyball

By Tom Degun at the Aquatic Centre on the Olympic ParkOctober 7 - Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, today unveiled the plans for the 2012 School Games finals, which will see around 1,600 of Britain's top young sports stars competing in four key Olympic venues just two months before the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony.

fencing, rugby sevens, gymnastics, hockey, badminton, athletics, cycling, judo, swimming, table tennis, volleyball

Table Tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball

Sevens Sailing Shooting Table Tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball

By David GoldOctober 1 - Brazil is looking to win their first ever gold medal in the men's sitting volleyball

Ribeiro, a former Olympic champion, who is now President of the Brazilian Association of Paralympic Volleyball

Despite being one of the world's leading volleyball nations, having dominated in Beijing in 2008 with

men's silver and women's gold, their sitting volleyball squad is yet to reach such lofty heights.Ribeiro

, who claimed gold at the Barcelona 1992 indoor volleyball tournament, is hoping to improve on the 2008

Volleyball is the second most popular sport in Brazil behind football, and their men's and women's teams

second in the world, but when it comes to the Paralympics, it is Iran who have dominated the sitting volleyball

By Duncan MackaySeptember 29 - Glasgow 2014 has appointed the highly-experienced Australian Jacqui Murdoch as its director of Games time delivery, they announced today.

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

she advised on Games strategy and governance.Other events that Murdoch, the former chief executive of Volleyball

Victoria and Volleyball South Australia, has worked on include the 2007 World Swimming Championships

Hardee have been named as the US Olympic Committee's (USOC) Athletes of the Month, with the national volleyball

World Championships as the US swept to the top two positions - a first for the event.Meanwhile, the US volleyball

gold at the World University Games, with Destinee Hooker (pictured) in third for her exploits in the volleyball

By Tom Degun on Clapham Common in LondonSeptember 10 - Will Young, The Wanted and The Saturdays were among a stellar line-up of pop acts that gathered on Clapham Common for Sainsbury's Super Saturday - a one-off concert to celebrate and raise awareness of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

attendance.The 12,000 visitors to the event also had the chance to try out Paralympic sports such as sitting volleyball

Trafalgar Square in LondonSeptember 8 - A new world record was set during Cadbury Spots v Stripes sitting volleyball

Olympic and Paralympic Games, to Sochi in Russia, where the 2014 Winter Games will be held.Sitting volleyball

We've acknowledged the progression of the GB volleyball team on the world stage, they're progression

By Tom DegunSeptember 4 - The Glasgow 2014 Organising Committee in conjunction with Glasgow City Council have given a group of cross-party members of the Scottish Parliament an exclusive insight into the venues and facilities that will be used during the multi-sport event in just under three years' time.

Village.The facility will be a national training centre for athletics, basketball, netball, track cycling and volleyball

Tom DegunSeptember 2 - London 2012 have donated the 2,274 tonnes of sand used for the Olympic beach volleyball

The sand for the beach volleyball test event at Horse Guards Parade, which was titled the Visa FIVB

Beach Volleyball International, originally came from a quarry in Godstone in Surrey and has now been

Beach Volleyball is a sport everybody can play and these new facilities will give everyone a chance to

get involved with this great sport," said Richard Callicott, President of Volleyball England."

volleyball at Horse Guards Parade is a winning combination says Jevans

By Tom Degun in SheffieldSeptember 1 - The 2011 Sainsbury's UK School Games, a major multi-sport event for young people organised by the Youth Sport Trust, got underway in style tonight as the Motorpoint Arena here in Sheffield staged a spectacular Opening Ceremony.

athletics, badminton, fencing, gymnastics, hockey, judo, mountain biking, swimming, table tennis and volleyball

By Tom DegunAugust 31 - The Zimbabwe Paralympic Committee (ZPC) and the United States Embassy have held an event to celebrate the upcoming International Paralympic Day, which will take place on September 8 this year in the iconic London landmark Trafalgar Square.

demonstrations from a wide range of sports, including wheelchair basketball, powerlifting, sitting volleyball

superstars, David Weir and Ellie Simmonds, the terrorist bomb blast victim Martine Wright, now a top sitting volleyball

Sports Beach Volleyball Capacity 15,000 Nearly 500 years after Henry VIII hosted

jousting tournaments at Horseguards Parade, beach volleyball will come to Whitehall for the London 2012

will be installed for the London 2012 Games.A two tier stand will enable 15,000 fans to watch beach volleyball