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Ian Reid: Spectacular celebrations as Birmingham 2022 marks one year to go

  • Inside the Blogs

Today is a very special day in the countdown to Birmingham 2022 as it marks exactly one year until the Games begin.

hosting the start and finish of the cycling road race events.We’ll also be taking over Smithfield for our beach

volleyball, basketball 3x3 and wheelchair basketball 3x3 competitions.


Perfect starts for Slovakia, Poland and Latvia at Beach ParaVolley Slovenian Open

  • Volleyball News

Slovakia and Poland in the men’s standing competition and Latvia in the men’s sitting competition as the Beach

The tournament is the first international event to feature both disciplines of beach ParaVolley.The first

dynamic matches, the feedback of the foreign teams is great, and I believe that the future is bright for beach

ParaVolley, which should get its place among the volleyball family."

Matic Keržan of the Slovenian national team added: "It was our first time to play beach ParaVolley and


Road to Tokyo

  • Russia Sport pages

wrestling, fencing, gymnastics, swimming, artistic swimming, artistic gymnastics, boxing, athletics and beach

volleyball.


Bidding opens for 17 European Universities Championships in 2025

  • Universiade

The bidding window for the 2025 European Universities Championships (EUC) has begun, with potential hosts asked to submit applications before the December deadline.

will feature judo, karate, kickboxing and taekwondo.Also up for grabs is the European Universities Beach

Championships - comprised of beach handball and beach volleyball.Judo is one of four sports due to feature

chess, football, futsal, golf, handball, orienteering, rowing, rugby sevens, table tennis, tennis, volleyball

polo.The preliminary list of the EUC 2023 host cities has been decided, with Malaga in Spain to host the Beach


Slovenia all set for first official ParaVolley Europe competition

  • Volleyball News

The three-day Beach ParaVolley Slovenian Open begins tomorrow (July 27), with men’s and women’s sitting

taking part in capital Ljubljana, and it is the first international event to feature both disciplines of beach

Slovenia has a long tradition of sitting volleyball, Slovenian volleyball players have achieved exceptional

We are convinced that the first international event in both, standing and sitting beach ParaVolley so

losing semi-finalists and the final.The final day's matches will be held in Ljubljana's Pogačar Square ©Volleyball

Europe cancelled all of its sanctioned competitions last October, while this year's European Sitting Volleyball


Batsarashkina's genes help provide platform for Olympic gold medal performance

  • Shooting

Vitalina Batsarashkina thanked the influence of her grandfathers after winning the Russian Olympic Committee's first gold medal of Tokyo 2020 yesterday. 

Americans Rajeev Ram and Frances Tiafoe.Another highlight of the day was the confident 3-1 victory of the volleyball

Noskova won her first game the tournament in a bitter struggle with the Frenchwoman Prithika Pavade.In beach

volleyball in Shiokaze Park, Konstantin Semenov and Ilya Leshukov beat Spain's Pablo Herrera and Adrian


About 100 US athletes unvaccinated at Tokyo 2020, USOPC official reveals

  • Tokyo 2020

About 100 of the United States’ 613-strong team for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics here are unvaccinated against coronavirus, it has been revealed.

United States beach volleyball player Taylor Crabb was ruled out the Olympics after contracting COVID

-19 ©Getty ImagesBeach volleyball player Taylor Crabb and Kara Eaker, who is an alternate on the gymnastics


COVID-19-affected beach volleyball tournament set to get underway at Tokyo 2020

  • Tokyo 2020

The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) has confirmed the Czech pair of Markéta Nausch-Sluková

for the novel coronavirus yesterday, and Barbora Hermannová had been scheduled to open the Tokyo 2020 beach

volleyball competition tomorrow.Under the International Olympic Committee's rules for Tokyo 2020, athletes

 Male beach volleyball player Ondřej Perušič is among the other members of the Czech delegation

volleyball," said Mol."

Beach volleyball at Tokyo 2020 is due to run through to August 7.


Czech NOC launches investigation as number of Tokyo 2020 COVID-19 positives hits six

  • Tokyo 2020

The Czech Olympic Committee (COV) has launched an investigation into whether members of its delegation for the delayed Olympic Games here adhered to the strict COVID-19 measures after another two athletes tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

Czech beach volleyball player Markéta Nausch-Sluková and cyclist Michal Schlegel today became the latest

the Games, which open tomorrow.Nausch-Sluková, who had been due to play in the opening match of the beach

volleyball tournament at the Games with partner Barbora Hermannová, tested positive for COVID-19 at

 Male beach volleyball player Ondřej Perušič and Pavel Širuček, who competes in table tennis, had

volleyball player Taylor Crabb are also out of the Games due to positive COVID-19 cases.South African



IOC clarifies quarantine rules for athletes who test positive for COVID-19 at Tokyo 2020

  • Tokyo 2020

Athletes who test positive for COVID-19 at the delayed Olympic Games here could be freed from their quarantine of up to 10 days if they return consecutive negative results from the sixth day of their isolation period, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed.

COVID-19 tests as their quarantine period encompasses the date of their competition.Four of these - beach

volleyball players Ondřej Perušič and Markéta Nausch-Sluková, table tennis player Pavel Širuček and

taekwondo athlete Fernanda Aguirre, Dutch skateboarder Candy Jacobs and American Taylor Crabb, another beach

volleyball player, are also out of the Games due to testing positive for COVID-19.South African footballers


Three athletes ruled out of Tokyo 2020 after testing positive for COVID-19

  • Tokyo 2020

Chilean taekwondo athlete Fernanda Aguirre, Dutch skateboarder Candy Jacobs and Czech table tennis player Pavel Širuček have been ruled out of the delayed Olympic Games here after testing positive for COVID-19.

American beach volleyball player Taylor Crabb is also set to miss his event following confirmation that

tested positive in the Olympic Village.Širuček is the second Czech athlete and third from the country's beach

volleyball delegation to contract COVID-19 since arriving in Japan for the Olympics.Compatriots Ondřej

kilograms category at the Makuhari Messe on Sunday (July 25), the same day as Crabb's opening men's beach

volleyball match with partner Jake Gibb.The 21-year-old Chilean returned two positive tests at the airport