have inspected preparations for this year's Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) World Beach

the Athletes’ Village, which will be located in the Ezdan Hotel.They were also given a tour of Katara Beach

football, handball, karate, sailing, skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing, swimming, tennis, triathlon, volleyball

seven countries advanced to the men’s main draw as action begun today at the five-star International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach World Tour event in Gstaad in Switzerland.

underway in earnest ©Pacific Games News ServiceThere were also much more suitable conditions for the beach

volleyball ©PacificGames News ServiceThe first day of the sailing competition took place on Tuesday

Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) has stepped up preparations for this year's World Beach

Organising Committee and provided feedback on potential improvements.They were given a tour of Katara Beach

A Chef de Mission seminar for the ANOC World Beach Games is due to begin today and conclude on Thursday

football, handball, karate, sailing, skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing, swimming, tennis, triathlon, volleyball

History was made today with the first women's rugby league nines matches taking place at the Pacific Games here, after the sport was added to the programme in June 2018.

matches saw Papua New Guinea thrash Solomon Islands 86-48, while Fiji defeated Tahiti 80-66.The men's beach

volleyball began despite the stormy conditions, with Papua New Guinea, Kiribati, Samoa, Cook Islands

Russia's Oleg Stoyanovskiy became the youngest player to win the men's title at the Beach Volleyball

an agonising defeat.Stoyanovskiy is the youngest player to win the men's title at the International Volleyball

https://t.co/2Kq1qLr5Na#BeachVolleyball #FIVBWorldChamps pic.twitter.com/piwnCGBKbL— Volleyball World

Little time will be wasted before the first medals are handed out at the 2019 Pacific Games, with the first finals due to take place on the very first morning tomorrow. 

The men's five kilometres open water swimming is scheduled at 10am local time here at the Sheraton Beach

from China, which also paid for the refurbishment of Apia Park and the Aquatics Centre.Basketball, beach

volleyball, cricket, football, lawn bowls, rugby league nines, squash, table tennis and tennis are also

Canada’s Melissa Humana-Parades and Sarah Pavan secured the women’s title at the Beach Volleyball World

https://t.co/NpUU5lz4c8#BeachVolleyball #FIVBWorldChamps pic.twitter.com/aRILxhiU6N— Volleyball World

Artacho repeated their finish at the World Championships at the very same venue in this International Volleyball

Samoa 2019 will produce and distribute eight hours of broadcast coverage a day in high definition, organisers have announced prior to the Pacific Games.

Samoa 2019, rising from four sports at the last edition.They can field teams in archery, athletics, beach

volleyball, football, sailing, taekwondo weightlifting and rugby sevens.

putting their best foot forward.”National University of Samoa students will assist with coverage of volleyball

Samoa will play a key role in assisting the host broadcaster by providing equipment and crew for the volleyball

teams from Brazil and the United States, respectively, in the men’s round of 16 ahead of tomorrow’s Beach

Volleyball World Championships quarter-finals.

Bourne and Trevor Crabb of the United States, who will now meet the Brazilians as this International Volleyball

https://t.co/WriXQ8ddd8#BeachVolleyball #Hamburg2019 pic.twitter.com/kEMoBiDmlj— Volleyball World (

a 21-15, 21-18 victory over Mariafe Artacho and Taliqua Clancy of Australia.The 12th edition of the Beach

Volleyball World Championships offers winning teams a quota place for their country at the Tokyo 2020

Australia’s team for the 2019 Pacific Games in Samoa has increased to 57 athletes with a 15-strong taekwondo contingent named. 

This follows the original athletes from athletics, beach volleyball, rugby sevens, sailing and weightlifting

Brazil's Agatha Bednarczuk and Eduarda Lisboa to reach the quarter-finals of the women's event at the Beach

Volleyball World Championships in Hamburg.

I caught up with beach soccer at the recent European Games in Minsk.

For all the beach vibe, on the evidence of what I saw, it's a bit brutal round the edges.

Beautiful Game.In fact it was hard to determine whether the players who dropped, stricken, to the “beach

Beach Soccer has got everything needed to be a great sport."

©Getty ImagesSo will beach soccer one day join beach volleyball in getting on the main Olympic programme

“Beach soccer would be a fantastic sport at the Olympics.

Solar and Taliqua Clancy survived arguably the toughest match-up of the women’s round of 32 at the Beach

https://t.co/bhbw5hFy4Y #Hamburg2019 #FIVBWorldChamps #BeachVolleyball pic.twitter.com/ybdSQmCbfQ— Volleyball

Heather Bansley in the pick of tomorrow's women’s round-of-32 matches as pool play concluded today at the Beach

Details from #Hamburg2019: https://t.co/4h7D1SqfoP pic.twitter.com/6XQQDh10me— Volleyball World (@FIVBVolleyball