Temperatures near the New National Stadium in Tokyo were recorded at 30 celsius at 6am local time with exactly one year to go until the start of the Olympic marathon, according to Japan-based Weathernews, as a heatwave sweeps across the region.

materials that are expected to suppress temperature rises by as much as eight centigrade.At last week’s beach

volleyball test event in Tokyo misting sprays and air-conditioned tents were among features trialled

American Games in Lima, Chilean cousins Marco and Esteban Grimalt marked their debut at the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach World Tour event in Vienna by beating Olympic silver medallists Daniele Lupo

Peru’s capital to Austria’s capital just a few hours after they claimed their country's first-ever beach

volleyball medal.And only 15 hours after their plane landed, they posted a 21-19, 12-21, 15-12 victory

Lupo and Nicolai, the Olympic runners-up at Rio 2016, on the opening day of the men's main draw at the Beach

Volleyball Major Series event on Danube Island."

Hermannová and Marketa Slukova booked their place in the round of 16 of the women's event at the FIVB Beach

winning both their matches on the opening day of the women’s main draw at the five-star International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach World Tour event in Vienna.

Slukova, 16-21, 11-21.The men's main draw is due to begin tomorrow.The event in Vienna is part of the Beach

Volleyball Major Series.

A total of 11 people died and 5,664 people were taken to hospitals in Japan due to heat-related medical issues last week when temperatures rose sharply following the end of the rainy season in most areas, the Japanese Government revealed.

athletes, spectators and volunteers during next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games.At last week’s beach

volleyball test event in Tokyo misting sprays and air-conditioned tents were among the features trialled

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Brazil emerged as 31-20 winners in the women's volleyball competition to earn the gold medal and place

weightlifting event ©Lima 2019Chilean cousins Marco and Esteban Grimalt then triumphed in the men's beach

volleyball ©Lima 2019They defeated Mexico's Juan Virgen and Rodolfo Ontiveros 21-19, 22-24, 15-10 to

take gold ©Lima 2019America's Karissa Cook and Jace Pardon won the women's beach volleyball ©Lima 2019Their

Fernando Saraiva Reis of Brazil claimed his third Pan American Games title as competition in weightlifting came to an end here.

Tamara Salazar earning bronze on 256kg.Karissa Cook and Jace Pardon of the United States won the women's beach

volleyball ©Lima 2019Water-ski also came to an end today, with America's Regina Jaquess earning her

Mexico’s Patricio Gonzalez on 69.67.More success came for America, the Lima 2019 medal table leaders, in beach

20, 15-10.Brazil’s Angela and Carolina claimed the bronze medals.It was a family affair in the men's beach

volleyball final, with Chilean cousins Marco and Esteban Grimalt triumphing against Mexico's Juan Virgen

Birmingham 2022 chief executive Ian Reid says it is the Organising Committee’s hope that it will be welcoming India to the Commonwealth Games in three years' time, despite a boycott by the country looking set to be proposed over shooting’s exclusion from the sports programme.

Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) Executive Board at its meeting in June, however.Women's cricket, beach

volleyball and Para-table tennis were put forward for formal approval by the CGF's 71 Member Associations

In September 2018, five sports that were not included in the original bid – shooting, archery, beach

volleyball, Para table tennis and cricket – expressed their desire to be part of the Games."

this review, Birmingham 2022 proposed adding three sports – women’s cricket, Para-table tennis and beach

Austria’s capital Vienna is ready to host the latest stop on the International Volleyball Federation

(FIVB) Beach World Tour with a five-star event set to begin tomorrow.

The event is part of the Beach Volleyball Major Series and will be held on the Danube Island for the

running.It is the fifth of five straight weeks of elite competitions that started in Germany with the FIVB Beach

attendance ©FIVBAlso in attendance were Norwegians Anders Mol and Christian Sørum, who have won six FIVB Beach

Brazil's Ágatha Bednarczuk and Eduarda "Duda" Lisboa battled to the women's prize.The four-star FIVB Beach

World Tour tournament in the Japanese capital was doubling as a beach volleyball test event for next

Tokyo 2020 organisers have confirmed that a third Olympic ticket lottery for residents of Japan will be held later this year.

qualifying competitions.The sports with sessions available are athletics, baseball/softball, basketball, beach

volleyball, canoe sprint, cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing, football, golf, gymnastics, handball

, hockey, modern pentathlon, mountain bike, rowing, rugby sevens, taekwondo, volleyball, water polo,

This past weekend was supposed to be full of celebration and anticipation for organisers of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Why should a beach volleyball player lose the opportunity to compete because of IOA politics?

Thirteen candidates are running for five places on the Panam Sports Athlete Commission as voting opens here at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games.

Mexican racquetball star Paola Longoria, who has six Pan American gold medals to her name, Canada's beach

volleyball world champion Melissa Humana-Paredes and two-times team archery Pan American Games champion

Norwegian top seeds Anders Mol and Christian Sorum claimed the men's title at the International Volleyball

The four-star World Tour tournament in the Japanese capital was doubling as a beach volleyball test event

Ehlers and Lars Fluggen 21-17, 21-18 in the men's final.They have now won nine gold medals on the FIVB Beach

the "Ready Steady Tokyo" banner.Organisers tested misting sprays and air-conditioned tents during the beach

volleyball event as part of measures designed to combat expected high temperatures.According to Reuters

Klineman and April Ross of the United States reached their third consecutive final on the International Volleyball

Federation Beach Volleyball World Tour with victory over Germany's Karla Borger and Julia Sude at the

Christian Sørum of Norway will face Germany's Nils Ehlers and Lars Fluggen in the men's final at the FIVB Beach

Volleyball World Tour event in Tokyo ©Getty ImagesEhlers and Fluggen set up a meeting with the Norwegian

Surfing will not form part of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) World Beach Games

event.Basketball, football, handball, karate, sailing, skateboarding, sport climbing, swimming, tennis, triathlon, volleyball

October 12 to 16, with the ANOC General Assembly immediately following.A new mascot for the ANOC World Beach

two competition areas, with everything within 20 minutes.”The Games are set to take place on Katara Beach

seeds Anders Mol and Christian Sørum of Norway progressed to the quarter-finals at the International Volleyball

Federation Beach Volleyball World Tour Tokyo Open, a test event for next year's Olympic Games.

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