held the first of its daily Chef de Mission meetings in the final countdown to the inaugural World Beach

The arrival of some of the best beach athletes in the world has created a new level of excitement for

until October 16.2 days to Go for the inaugural Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) World Beach

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wrestling and beach tennis.Beach soccer, beach handball, beach volleyball, bouldering, skateboarding

the Katara and Al Gharafa venues in Doha.Qatar stepped in to host the inaugural edition of the World Beach

Germany have named 21 athletes for the inaugural Association of National Olympic Committees World Beach

The country will be represented in beach tennis, beach volleyball, karate kata, open water swimming,

Gwangju in July.Leonie Beck, Niklas Frach and Finnia Wunram are also in the open water team for the World Beach

The United States' team for the next month's Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) World Beach

represented in all 13 sports in Qatar's capital.Highlighting the list of athletes are two Olympians - beach

volleyball player Casey Patterson and open water swimmer Haley Anderson."

volleyball at the Pan American Games in Peru’s capital Lima in July.Additionally, karateka Ariel Torres

heads into the ANOC World Beach Games with a Lima 2019 silver medal-winning performance in the men's

volleyball.The inaugural edition of the ANOC World Beach Games, from October 12 to 16, will feature

Two athletes sent home from the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City for protesting against American racial discrimination on the medal podium will be inducted into the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Hall of Fame in November.

medallist and five-time world champion, and Misty May-Treanor, a three-time Olympic gold medallist in beach

volleyball, will also be inducted.They are joined by Candace Cable, vice-chair of Los Angeles 2028 and

Spanish pair of Elsa Baquerizo and Liliana Fernandez, earned their countries a place at Tokyo 2020 at the beach

volleyball Olympic qualifier in China.

Latvia for next year's Olympic Games.It also completed a Latvian double at this at this International Volleyball

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Obviously, this ranks as our greatest moment as beach volleyball players."

ranks as a great achievement as we become the first women's team from our country to qualify for the beach

volleyball competition at the Olympics."

Following our 2019 General Assembly in Rwanda earlier this month, I can say with real confidence that the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) is in an extremely strong place.

Birmingham 2022 has all the ingredients to be a great success.Last month, we saw Women's T20 cricket, beach

volleyball and Para-table tennis confirmed on the Birmingham 2022 sports programme.This means that the

2020, after defeating Dutch duo Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen in the final of the FIVB Tokyo Beach

Volleyball Olympic Qualification Tournament in China.

medal-winners Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen have reached the men's finals of the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Tokyo 2020 Beach Volleyball Olympic Qualification tournament in Haiyang, China.

Italy's Marta Menegatti and Viktoria Orsi Toth topped their pool at the International Volleyball Federation

(FIVB) beach volleyball Olympic qualification event in Haiyang.

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has named the team for next month's inaugural World Beach Games

Olympic Committees event, taking place between October 12 and 16.They will compete across seven sports – beach

volleyball, karate, sailing, swimming, sport climbing, beach handball and water-skiing."

Games ©Getty Images"I'm so excited to be selected for the World Beach Games, competing in a multi-sport

The Doha Beach Games will really help me grow as an athlete and give our team some of that big event

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Artificial snow was sprayed on volunteers attending the Tokyo 2020 canoe sprint test event, as part of measures designed to combat the high temperatures expected during next year's Olympic Games.

introduced at Tokyo 2020 ©Getty ImagesOrganisers tested misting sprays and air-conditioned tents at a beach

volleyball event in Tokyo in July, while roads in the Japanese capital are to be painted with a special

The tracking of athletes using 3D technology is the latest addition to technology giant Intel Corp's Tokyo 2020 portfolio.

recreate images of venues to help staff, with live broadcasts on offer to track events, including boxing, beach

volleyball and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies.Intel will produce chips for facial recognition systems

The Vanuatu Association of Sports And National Olympic Committee (VASANOC) attended a good governance workshop in the Pacific nation.

Getty ImagesVanuatu celebrated winning their first medals at the Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast 2018.Beach

volleyball duo Linline Matauatu and Miller Pata and Para-javelin thrower Friana Kwevirawon each won

Teams from Turkey, Lithuania and Russia are going through their final paces as they prepare for the third edition of the Gloria Cup basketball tournament, starting in Antalya tomorrow.

day.The GSA provides facilities for more than 50 sports branches, with gymnastics, boxing, basketball, volleyball

tracks, athletic fields, tennis courts, climbing walls, and fields for football, rugby, field hockey and beach

OCA) Coordination Committee chairman Raja Randhir Singh has claimed preparations for the 2020 Asian Beach

s Hainan Island and known as the "Hawaii of China" - is due to stage the sixth edition of the Asian Beach

of any problems that will come up," he added.The 17 sports approved will take place in one of three beach

 They are: 3x3 basketball, beach athletics, beach handball, beach kabaddi, beach soccer, beach volleyball

, beach water polo, beach woodball, beach wrestling, dragon boat racing, duathlon, motor boat, powered

We are fully confident that the Asian Beach Games will drive the development of sports tourism in Sanya