New Zealand has stepped up the fight against potential coronavirus infections at Tokyo 2020 by installing new health technology at athletes' accommodation here.

tested positive for COVID-19 inside the Olympic Village - two South African footballers and a Czech beach

volleyball player.

Czech beach volleyball player Ondřej Perušič will miss his opening match at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic

The chair of a panel advising the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on COVID-19 countermeasures has said the 58 cases linked to Tokyo 2020 so far are "what we expected to see".

Mahlatsi, who became the first athletes inside the Olympic Village to test positive for COVID-19.Czech beach

volleyball player Ondřej Perušič has also tested positive at the Village - although he is not yet included

Japan’s Miki Ishii and Megumi Murakami will open the Tokyo 2020 beach volleyball competition, after organisers

will head to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with the ideal confidence-booster after winning the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach Volleyball World Tour four-star event in Gstaad.

played this year.Brazil's Rebecca Cavalcanti and Ana Patrica Ramos were beaten in the final of the FIVB Beach

Volleyball World Tour four-star event in Gstaad by the compatriots whom they will joint at the Tokyo

de Groot of The Netherlands beat Qatar’s Cherif Younousse Samba and Ahmed Tijan to win their first Beach

Volleyball World Tour event as a pairing in Gstaad in Switzerland.

the podium in just their seventh international tournament together after winning the International Volleyball

Latest News ➡️ https://t.co/wdpmbea0Ij☀️ #BeachVolleyball #GstaadMajor pic.twitter.com/w0ob1lqPC9— Beach

Volleyball World (@BeachVBWorld) July 10, 2021Earlier in the day, Cherif and Ahmed and Boermans and

Anders Mol and Christian Sorum of Norway, favourites for the men’s beach volleyball title at the Tokyo

Australia.World champions Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes of Canada are drawn in Pool A in the Tokyo 2020 beach

volleyball competition ©Getty ImagesBrazil’s Alison Cerutti, who won the Rio 2016 men’s title with Bruno

The Netherlands in Pool A.The 24 teams per gender include one host team, the winners of the 2019 FIVB Beach

Volleyball World Championships, the two winners of the Olympic Qualification Tournament, 15 teams from

the Olympic ranking and a further five from the Continental Cup Finals.The Tokyo 2020 beach volleyball

The Munich 2022 European Championships has finalised its sports programme which will involve 4,700 athletes from around 50 nations, competing in 176 medal events.

awarded to the nation finishing top of the overall medal table for the participating sports - athletics, beach

volleyball, canoe sprint, cycling, gymnastics, rowing, sport climbing, table tennis and triathlon.Libor

The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) has unveiled its Tokyo 2020 brand campaign, Glory From Anywhere, which highlights the accomplishments of Team Canada athletes alongside the inspiring stories of community heroes.

2016 100 metres bronze medallist and 200m silver medallist Andre De Grasse, skateboarder Annie Guglia, beach

volleyball players Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan, national decathlon record holder Damian Warner

The Academic Sport Association (ASA) - the governing body for university sport in Israel - hosted a mini-championship as COVID-19 rules started to ease.

Men and women competed in six sports in the Red Sea city of Eilat - beach volleyball, futsal, swimming

The Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) has taken part in a blood drive, with Olympic champions among those donating and encouraging others to follow suit.

the "Red June" campaign and World Blood Donor Day, which fell on Monday (June 14).Los Angeles 1984 volleyball

Bernard Rajzman was among those to donate.So too was Adriana Behar, twice an Olympic silver medallist in beach

volleyball and now chief executive of the Brazilian Volleyball Confederation.Judoka Rogério Sampaio

NBCUniversal (NBCU) has announced that it plans to broadcast more than 7,000 hours of content on several channels during the rearranged Olympic Games in Tokyo - its most ever.

show more than 100 hours of competitions during its primetime programming hours, including diving, beach

volleyball, rowing, water polo and rugby sevens.In addition, NBCU plans to move its Today and NBC Nightly

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has taken another step on its journey of reconciliation through sport with the launch of its "Reflect" Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP).

Australian beach volleyball Olympian Taliqua Clancy plays with students during the launch of the Australian

Munich 2022 has unveiled the road cycling courses for next year's European Championships.

nbsp;Glasgow and Berlin shared the first European Championships in 2018.As well as cycling, athletics, beach

volleyball, canoe sprint, gymnastics, rowing, sport climbing, table tennis and triathlon will be part

Russia will remain the host country for the 2022 Men's Volleyball World Championship after the World

The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) said in a statement that WADA had acknowledged it would

welcomes the acknowledgement of WADA that it is legally and practically impossible to remove the FIVB Volleyball

A Russian team are set to compete on home soil at the Men's Volleyball World Championship ©Getty ImagesA

Compliance Review Committee, agreed that it was legally and practically impossible to withdraw the Volleyball

that it was keeping its 2021 World Championships in Moscow.Russia is also scheduled to host the FIFA Beach