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British Volleyball latest to sign-up former Telegraph sports editor

  • Volleyball

May  5 - British Volleyball have become the latest sport to hire former Daily Telegraph sports

David Welch Management (DWM)  have been engaged by British Volleyball to enhance the

The latest partnership will involve DWM working with the men and women’s indoor volleyball

squads, the beach volleyball squads and the sitting squads leading up to the 2012 London Olympics.

The partnership between British Volleyball and DWM intends to establish volleyball as an ambitious sport

, beach volleyball and sitting volleyball programmes, is a story about  incredible  journeys


Sue Mott: Have bikini will travel for British beach volleyball team

  • Inside the Blogs

Playing volleyball on Copacabana Beach may sound like a fantasy occupation but for the GB men and women

’s beach volleyball teams it represents the next serious step in their bid for medals at the London

world at this early stage," said Matt Grinlaubs, the GB coach and former Australian Olympic beach volleyball

The professionalism of GB beach volleyball has grown significantly since the sport was introduced into

 Mullin (pictured right) is a former Scottish indoor volleyball international, whose father


British team for London 2012 set to be biggest for more than a century

  • London 2012

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year March 31 - Britain hopes to select 500 athletes, its biggest Olympic team for more than a century, when London hosts the Games in 2012, it was announced today.

competitors in team sports in which Britain have not recently competed in, including football, handball, volleyball


London 2012 ticketing process opens

  • London 2012

By Mike Rowbottom in London March 22 - Paul Deighton, chief executive of London 2012, said today that the registration scheme set up as the first step for would-be spectators at the Olympics and Paralympics had had 40,000 hits in the first four hours.

"To give you an example, the beach volleyball at the Beijing Olympics  had sessions that were five

"Even for the most ardent of beach volleyball followers, that is a long time to have to be in a seat.



Sainsbury's become headline sponsor of UK School Games

  • Sponsor News

By Tom Degun in London March 16 - Supermarket giants Sainsbury’s have today announced that they will become the headline sponsor of the prestigious UK School Games.

sports: athletics, badminton, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, hockey, judo, swimming, table tennis and volleyball


UK Sport sets out testing medal target for summer Paralympians

  • Latest (Paralympics)

By Mike Rowbottom in London March 10 -  As Britain’s Paralympians prepare to challenge for podium places at the winter Games which start in Vancouver on Friday, their summer counterparts have been set an ambitious target for 2010 by UK Sport.

the emphasis will be on improving general standards – disability athletics, goalball, sitting volleyball


University of East London sign deal with USOC for London 2012

  • London 2012

March 10 - The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) will utilise the University of East London (UEL) as its base of athlete performance services and logistical operations for the London 2012 Games, it was announced today.

and fitness suite, a large indoor sports arena, ten badminton courts, two competition basketball , volleyball


UK Sport chiefs admit Vancouver haul was "disappointing"

  • Vancouver 2010

By Mike Rowbottom in London March 10 - Britain’s overall performance at the recent winter Olympics in Vancouver was disappointing, officials at UK Sport admitted today.

Volleyball,  handball, judo and hockey have all been set targets below medal level.


Tulsa still hoping to bid for 2020 Olympics

  • Tokyo 2020

By Duncan Mackay March 5 - Tulsa officials are pushing ahead with a proposed bid for the 2020 Olympics despite United States Olympic Committee (USOC) chief executive Scott Blackmun claiming that there are currently no plans to put forward a candidate to host the Games.

Early plans include having the gymnastics at a venue 125 miles away in Norman, the volleyball 107 miles


Spain lays first stone for new beach volleyball development centre

  • Volleyball

March 4 - The first stone of a new beach volleyball Development Centre  in Lorca, Spain, was

Regional and local authorities, as well as various representatives of Spanish volleyball were present

Murcia region, Antonio Peñalver, the Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jódar and the President of the Spanish Volleyball

The goal of the new development is to become best beach volleyball center in Europe, and the two

areas, a gym and a covered beach volleyball sports hall, and phase two dedicated to a second wing of

the building and a volleyball sports hall.


Sacarens rugby club take on Britain's goalball team

  • Latest (Paralympics)

By Tom Degun in London February 24 - Guinness Premiership outfit Saracens Rugby Club agreed to take on members of the GB goalball squad today in order to help raise awareness of the sport.

Played by two teams of three on an indoor volleyball court, the aim is to roll the ball into the opposing