COMPANIES in Kent are being urged to "adopt-a-nation" in an effort to help the county attract more teams to train there in the build-up to the 2012 Olympics.

representatives from Estonia, Romania, Canada and the United States have already visited Kent and Saudi Arabia’s volleyball

  LISA WAINWRIGHT (pictured) officially took over as the new chief executive of Volleyball England

Wainwright said: “I have thoroughly enjoyed my first month with volleyball and am excited by the prospects

London, South West and Midlands regional officers and even been invited to join training at Birmingham Volleyball

With almost 20 years of experience working in sport development, Volleyball England president Richard

development and its administration along with an understanding of the challenges and opportunities for volleyball

  THE European Union's top sports regulator has called for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to suspend its controversial rule requiring athletes to give detailed schedules of their whereabouts for drug testing while he examines it.

A legal challenge has been lodged in Belgium on behalf of 65 athletes, including cyclists and volleyball

  TICKETS for the SWATCH FIVB Junior World Championships in Brighton, the biggest beach volleyball

  Beach Volleyball is one of the most colourful Olympic sports and will come to Brighton, one of Britain

The event will be hosted at Nivea Sun Yellowave, a purpose build beach volleyball facility on Madeira

 AUGUST 22 - AUSTRALIA must learn from Britain's success at the Beijing Games, the country's leading Olympic official has admitted.

"The triathlon will take place on the Serpentine, the beach volleyball will be at Horse Guards Parade

 CARLOS ARTHUR NUZMAN (pictured) has been re-elected as the president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) up until London 2012.

Nuzman, a former volleyball player who represented Brazil in the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo and a lawyer

  BRITISH VOLLEYBALL has received a major boost with the announcement that it is to stage the first

  The Federation Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) has chosen the Yorkshire city to host Britain

It is a major coup for the British Volleyball Federation (BVF) who have been tasked to oversee the development

Sheffield has become the home of British volleyball with the EISS housing the British indoor squads.

also the location of the BVF’s high performance office and has hosted numerous major events including Volleyball

Richard Callicott, the president of the BVF, said: “Sheffield has become synonymous with British volleyball

  BRITISH VOLLEYBALL has received a major boost with the announcement that it is to stage the first

  The Federation Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) has chosen the Yorkshire city to host Britain

It is a major coup for the British Volleyball Federation (BVF) who have been tasked to oversee the development

Sheffield has become the home of British volleyball with the EISS housing the British indoor squads.

also the location of the BVF’s high performance office and has hosted numerous major events including Volleyball

Richard Callicott, the president of the BVF, said: “Sheffield has become synonymous with British volleyball

 AUGUST 21 - BRITAIN'S treble gold medallist Chris Hoy (pictured) suffered a rare defeat when he failed to get a place on the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Athletes' Commission, it was announced today.

taekwondo player Moon Dae-Sung, Russian swimmer Alexander Popov, German fencer Claudia Bokel and Cuban volleyball

the team epee competition four years ago while Yumilka was a member of the Cuban team that claimed volleyball

  TOKYO 2016 are hoping that a roadshow based on the model pioneered by London during its successful bid to hos the 2012 Olympics will help it promote the Olympic Movement.

the 1984 and 1988 judo gold medallist Hitoshi Saito,1988 swimming gold medallist Daichi Suzuki, 1992 volleyball

  STEVE CRAM (pictured), one of the most influential administrators in British sport, admitted today that it will be the smaller sports who have less chance of winning a medal at London 2012 who will bear the brunt of any cut-backs.

warned that unless the Government steps in to cover the gap then it will be sports like handball and volleyball

 JUNE 5 - THERE was anger laced with bewilderment in Qatar today that Doha had failed to make the short-list for the right to follow London 2012 as the host of the Olympic Games.

Sandeep Sharma, a former Indian volleyball captain who now lives in Doha, was among those watching the

It was even claimed by Faraj Muftah al-Abudllah, general secretary of the Qatar Volleyball Association

  AUGUST 28 - JOHN TREACY (pictured), the 1984 Olympic marathon silver medallist, has claimed that Ireland needs to look across the Irish Sea to find the blue print for success at the 2012 London Games.

footballers can be diverted into other sports, trying to encourage tall people to try out rowing and volleyball

  AUGUST 28 - REBECCA ADLINGTON, the double Olympic gold medallist, tonight officially opened the third annual UK School Games, being held in Bath and Bristol.

Bath and Bristol this year, where the new sport of hockey will join competition in badminton, judo, volleyball

Sun Yellowave Beach Sports Centre is currently being transformed ahead of Britain's first ever beach volleyball

Beach Volleyball proved to be one of the most popular and exciting events in Beijing, attracting a vibrant

Britain will field five pairs, most of which are looking to gain their first taste of international beach volleyball