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Handball and volleyball vow to fight on despite funding blow

  • Archive News

    HANDBALL and volleyball officials today vowed to carry on their programmes to try to make their

Paralympic sports but because of a £50 million shortfall did not announce anything for handball or volleyball

The British Volleyball Federation (BVF) has also promised that it will continue its work towards London

Richard Callicott, the BVF president, expressed his disappointment and astonishment that British Volleyball

have no confirmed funding for its indoor, beach and sitting volleyball programmes in preparation for


Handball and volleyball vow to fight on despite funding blow

  • Volleyball

    HANDBALL and volleyball officials today vowed to carry on their programmes to try to make their

Paralympic sports but because of a £50 million shortfall did not announce anything for handball or volleyball

The British Volleyball Federation (BVF) has also promised that it will continue its work towards London

Richard Callicott, the BVF president, expressed his disappointment and astonishment that British Volleyball

have no confirmed funding for its indoor, beach and sitting volleyball programmes in preparation for


Handball and volleyball vow to fight on despite funding blow

  • Handball

    HANDBALL and volleyball officials today vowed to carry on their programmes to try to make their

Paralympic sports but because of a £50 million shortfall did not announce anything for handball or volleyball

The British Volleyball Federation (BVF) has also promised that it will continue its work towards London

Richard Callicott, the BVF president, expressed his disappointment and astonishment that British Volleyball

have no confirmed funding for its indoor, beach and sitting volleyball programmes in preparation for


Handball and volleyball vow to fight on despite funding blow

  • Volleyball

    HANDBALL and volleyball officials today vowed to carry on their programmes to try to make their

Paralympic sports but because of a £50 million shortfall did not announce anything for handball or volleyball

The British Volleyball Federation (BVF) has also promised that it will continue its work towards London

Richard Callicott, the BVF president, expressed his disappointment and astonishment that British Volleyball

have no confirmed funding for its indoor, beach and sitting volleyball programmes in preparation for


Sheffield claim Brazil impressed after visit

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  DECEMBER 3 - BRAZILIAN officials have left Sheffield after a three-day visit to the Yorkshire city to inspect facilities as a potential training base for the London 2012 Olympics.

In Beijing they won 15 medals, three of which were gold, including the women's volleyball title.  


Athletics highest profile sport to suffer funding cut

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  ATHLETICS, whose only gold medallist at the Beijing Olympics was Christine Ohuruogu (pictured), has had its funding cut by UK Sport for the 2012 Olympics.

They are beach volleyball, fencing, handball, shooting, table tennis, volleyball, water polo and wrestling


Athletics highest profile sport to suffer funding cut

  • Athletics

  ATHLETICS, whose only gold medallist at the Beijing Olympics was Christine Ohuruogu (pictured), has had its funding cut by UK Sport for the 2012 Olympics.

They are beach volleyball, fencing, handball, shooting, table tennis, volleyball, water polo and wrestling


BOA chief executive hits out at UK Sport

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  ANDY HUNT, chief executive of the British Olympic Association (BOA), tonight hit out at the Government agency that helped deliver arguably the most successful Olympics in this country's history, including three gold medals for cyclist Chris Hoy (pictured).

sports who must wait to discover whether they are to receive full funding for 2009-2013 are handall and volleyball

The BOA have only ever sent a volleyball team to the Games once - at Atlanta in 1996 in beach volleyball


Government closes funding gap with extra £29 million

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  THE Government this afternoon helped limit the damage of a funding gap for Olympic sports by coming up with an extra £29 million to help them prepare for London 2012.

to speculation that, under UK Sport's "no compromise" approach, sports like basketball, handall and volleyball


Credit crunch hits World University Games

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  OCTOBER 28 - ORGANISERS of next year's World University Games in Belgrade have dropped six sports to help save costs.

the programme, which now consists of the event's compulsory sports, athletics basketball, football, volleyball


Former England coach joins University of Bath in 2012 build-up

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  SEPTEMBER 16 - BRIAN ASHTON (pictured), who guided England's Rugby World Cup final last year, is to become director of coaching at the University of Bath, it was announced today.

Paralympic sports of modern pentathlon, judo, bob-skeleton, bobsleigh, badminton, hockey, rowing, triathlon, volleyball


Keino wants Bristol to help Kenya become good in other sports

  • London 2012

SEPTEMBER 15 - KIP KEINO, the two-time Olympic gold medallist, said today he hopes that Kenya's new deal with Bristol will help them make progress in sports other than running in the build-up to the 2012 London Games.

"We want to see if we can improve in rowing, football, swimming, hockey, volleyball and also rugby




Winfrey gives big boost to Chicago 2016 bid

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  SEPTEMBER 3 - OPRAH WINFREY, the United States biggest television personality, today introduced more than 150 Olympians at a special ceremony to boost Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Games.

  Swimmers Michael Phelps and Dara Torres, gymnasts Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin, beach volleyball