A series of events and performances have been held at a celebration to mark the 10-year anniversary of the start of the 2008 OIympic Games in Beijing.

state of some of the facilities from the Games 10 years ago.The photos depicted rotting wood at the beach

volleyball venue, while statues of the mascots were seen lying broken and abandoned.Pictures have emerged

Moiseeva and Ekaterina Syrtseva triumphed in an all-Russian clash on home sand at the International Volleyball

The four-star World Tour beach tournament is taking place in Gorky Park in the capital city.Moiseeva

Russian doping is a subject now considered increasingly boring by many people.

events to Russia again, following the trend set by Moscow being named host of next year’s European Beach

Volleyball Championships last month.It is certainly important to focus on the many other doping scandals

Anders Mol and Christian Sorum extended their winning streak on the International Volleyball Federation

Beach World Tour to 12 matches as they earned their second Major Series gold in Vienna.

Hermannová and Marketa Sluková, the seventh seeds, have won the women’s event at the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Vienna Major in Austria today to claim their second Beach Major Series gold.

the Brazilian fourth seeds Fernanda Alves and Barbara Seixas 10-21, 21-16, 15-12, to win the third Beach

pic.twitter.com/Ei27FxcsJ5— Bara & Maki Beach (@bara_maki) August 4, 2018Sluková added: "We thought

men’s event today, Qatar's Cherif Samba and Ahmed Tijan becoming the first from Asia to make a Beach

Schmidt, who split in May, will face each other tomorrow during the second elimination round of the Beach

Volleyball Major Series event in Vienna.

and Pablo Herrera of Spain 21-16, 21-16 to secure a spot in tomorrow’s schedule at the third of four Beach

Major Series events on the 2017-2018 International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) World Tour calendar.In

The Spanish are one the teams playing the best volleyball right now and it was a big win for us," said

BeachWorldTour @Federvolley @Volley_AustriaVideo: Red Bull Media House pic.twitter.com/rBrsI4EhTA— Beach

Volleyball (@FIVBBeach) August 3, 2018In the only previous meeting between these two Brazilian teams

Latvia's Martins Plavins and Edgars Tocs, seeded 17th in the Beach Volleyball Major Series event in Vienna

the eight men's pools were decided due to a heavy afternoon rainstorm that delayed this International Volleyball

Viacheslav Krasilnikov and Nikita Liamin from Pool B.The atmosphere in Vienna for the latest leg of the FIVB Beach

Volleyball Major Series has been a huge factor in the event ©FIVBDue to the postponement of the final

winners Lauren Fendrick and Sarah Sponcil.Three US womem pairs made successful progress today at the FIVB Beach

Volleyball Major Series in Vienna ©FIVBOther teams winning elimination matches today were fourth-seeded

claimed two pool-play wins in Vienna today to ensure they will register their best-ever finish at a Beach

Volleyball Major Series event.

Championships on home sand last month, the duo had never placed higher than 17th at an International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach Volleyball Major Series event.But back-to-back Pool A victories today, highlighted

Keizer, returning to play full-time on the FIVB World Tour after playing in only two international beach

volleyball events the past two seasons, said.

Canada and the eighth-seeded Esteban and Marco Grimalt of Chile.Vienna is hosting the third of four Beach

different countries won their final round qualifying matches in the women's competition today at the Beach

Volleyball Vienna Major.

top eight seeded teams made it through to the main draw at the Donauinsel Arena at the third of four Beach

Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Andrew Parsons has given his "personal backing" to WPV's bid to get beach

Para-volleyball into the Los Angeles 2028 Paralympics.

IPC President Andrew Parsons has said that the World Championships took sitting volleyball to another

It was pleasing to receive President Parsons' personal backing for Beach ParaVolley and our bid to enter

World Championships and say this was the true beginning of Beach ParaVolley's journey into the Paralympics

Couzner announced WPV's intentions to get beach Para-volleyball into the Paralympics on July 24.Iran

Federation beach volleyball rules.Couzner also took the chance in his blog to praise the overall strength

Vienna, host of last year’s Beach Volleyball World Championships in sweltering conditions, plays it again

this week as it stages the last men’s and women’s qualifying tournament for the Beach Volleyball World

the Donauinsel arena tomorrow.The A1 Vienna Major marks the 21st men’s and 17th women’s International Volleyball

silver medallist there at the World Championships.Action from last year's men's gold medal match at the Beach

Volleyball World Championships in Vienna, which this week hosts the final qualifying tournament for

Vitor Felipe and Loyola with Alison Cerutti as they seek to earn valuable qualifying points for the Beach

Volleyball World Tour Finals, due to be held in Hamburg from August 14 until 19.

and Germany's Teresa Mersmann and Cinja Tillman won the men's and women's finals respectivley at the Beach

Volleyball World Tour Tokyo Open.

Stefan Basta and Lazar Kolaric at the three-stat event.It ended the latest leg of the International Volleyball

concluding with a 21-12 scoreline.Chile's Grimalt cousins experienced the golden feeling at the FIVB Beach

Volleyball World Tour Tokyo Open event ©FIVBThe Serbians played better in the second set, but they could

Moscow will host next year's European Beach Volleyball Championships, it has been announced.

events, we are confident that the 2019 CEV Beach Volleyball European Championship in Russia will be

said.Russia has previously staged the tournament on three occasions.Moscow hosted the CEV's flagship beach

I am proud to say that Russia will host the 2019 Beach Volleyball European Championships," said Stanislav

Shevchenko, President of the Russian Volleyball Federation.

beach volleyball and I am confident that the tournament will be held at a very high level with

and Esteban Grimalt and Serbia’s Stefan Basta and Lazar Kolaric will meet in the men’s final of the Beach

Volleyball World Tour Tokyo 3-star event following their semi-final victories today.

pairing of Casey Patterson and Stafford Slick to win 23-21, 21-15 in this latest leg of the International Volleyball

Finland’s Taru Lahti-Liukkonen and Anniina Parkkinen have reached their first semi-final in an FIVB Beach

Volleyball World Tour 3-star event in Tokyo ©FIVBFinland’s Taru Lahti-Liukkonen and Anniina Parkkinen

Four Japanese women's teams advanced from the group stage on home sand at the International Volleyball

The three-star Beach World Tour event is a taste of what things could be like at the 2020 Olympics in