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New Zealand missing Pacific Mini Games to focus on Birmingham 2022, official claims

  • Birmingham 2022

New Zealand is not attending this month's Pacific Mini Games in Saipan because the country is focussing on the Commonwealth Games, it has been claimed.

Kingdom in July," Mingoue told the Saipan Tribune.New Zealand were invited to compete in athletics, beach volleyball

compete, however.They will send 14 athletes in track and field and five in weightlifting, although beach volleyball


Flowers to be planted under latest Munich 2022 fan-engagement project

  • European Championships

Organisers of this year’s multi-sport European Championships are promising to plant potentially thousands of flowers in Munich’s Olympic Park as part of a fan-engagement project.

sports festival for Ukrainian refugees.European Championships across nine sports - athletics, beach volleyball



Study claims Milan Cortina 2026 could provide €3 billion boost to Italian economy

  • Milan Cortina 2026

A study from the Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies in Rome has claimed that the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games could provide a €3 billion (£2.6 billion/$3.2 billion) boost to the Italian economy.

included its men's football team winning the delayed UEFA European Championship and its men's and women's volleyball


Capralos praises European Olympic support for Ukraine as Flame of Peace lit for Banska Bystrica 2022

  • EOC

The "Flame of Peace" for the 2022 European Youth Olympic Festival in the Slovakian town of Banska Bystrica has began its journey from the temple of Ara Pacis in Rome, as European Olympic Committees President Spyros Capralos insisted it had a particular significance in 2022.

even greater importance with the war in Ukraine showing no sign of coming to an end.Seventeen-year-old volleyball

those of the competing nations trooped into the ceremony by choristers.Seventeen-year-old Slovakian volleyball


World ParaVolley founding President Joon to be inducted into International Volleyball Hall of Fame

  • Volleyball News

Dutchman Pieter Joon has been named as Para volleyball's first inductee of the International Volleyball

Joon was founding President of the World Organisation of Volleyball for the Disabled in 1980, now World

executive director George Mulry, World ParaVolley President Barry Couzner, and officials from the Dutch Volleyball

ParaVolley movement as to date, the only inductees have been people involved in FIVB [International Volleyball

Federation] volleyball," he said.Proficiat Pieter Joon met de benoeming tot the class of 2022, International

Volleyball Hall of fame. ???


Bello twins picked as one of England's beach volleyball pairs at Birmingham 2022

  • Volleyball

Twin brothers Javier and Joaquin Bello won their final at England's Birmingham 2022 beach volleyball

pic.twitter.com/5v4EtnOaV7— Volleyball England (@VballEngland) May 29, 2022Grimson previously partnered

Beach volleyball debuted at the Commonwealth Games in 2018, with England finishing fourth in the men's

the defending champions in the men's and women's tournaments, respectively.The Birmingham 2022 beach volleyball


Eliott Brennan: Faroe Islands ambition on full display through growing sports facilities

  • Inside the Blogs

"People are crazy about sports," Jon Hestoy, the vice-president of the Faroese Confederation of Sports and Olympic Committee (FCSOC), argues while discussing how sport is viewed in the Faroe Islands.

Klaksvíkar Svimjihøll sports complex is equipped with the facilities to stage handball, badminton, volleyball

Hestoy told insidethegames.Plans to build a new 4,600-seater indoor multisport arena for handball, volleyball




Olympic Solidarity-backed women's coaching course launched worldwide

  • Olympics

Women coaches from 22 countries are taking part in the launch of a million-dollar coaching scheme designed to support them in reaching the highest level of their sport.

cohort includes coaches from seven sports; bobsleigh-skeleton, cycling, judo, rugby union, skiing ,volleyball


Anaheim Mayor resigns as FBI investigates Angel Stadium sale

  • Los Angeles 2028

Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu has quit amid a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe into alleged corruption involving a deal to sell Angel Stadium.

Games in six years' time.Honda Center, home to ice hockey’s Anaheim Ducks, is due to be the venue for volleyball


Antigua and Barbuda

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

Antigua and Barbuda has never won a medal at the Commonwealth Games, so if they were to break their duck at Birmingham 2022 it would be a momentous occasion.

 "A lot of athletes are going for other sports like track and field, swimming, basketball and volleyball


Estonia's Murulo named team leader of Sitting Volleyball Rules of the Game Commission

  • Volleyball News

Estonia’s Toomas Murulo has been named team leader of the World ParaVolley (WPV) Sitting Volleyball Rules

Murulo, a former national youth player who subsequently qualified as a sitting and standing volleyball

together with his Polish colleague Dariusz Jasinski and has conducted training for coaches in sitting volleyball

governance and referee education.Estonia's Toomas Murulo has been named as team leader of the Sitting Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) international referee from 1999 to 2020.Murulo was a member of the Estonian Volleyball

Federation from 1999 to 2001 and was the official translator of the FIVB Volleyball Rules and teaching


Vietnam finish home Southeast Asian Games top of medals table

  • Hanoi 2021

Vietnam finished their home Southeast Asian Games top of the medals table after further success on the final day of competition in Hanoi.

basketball tournament, with the Philippines and Thailand placing second and third respectively.In the volleyball