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Mohsen Mohammadseifi ©Hangzhou 2022Cherif Samba, left, and Ahmed Janko of Qatar retained the men's beach

volleyball title with victory over China's Mutailipu Abuduhalikejiang and Wu Jiaxin ©Hangzhou 2022

There was a gap of 47 years between the youngest and oldest winners of gold medals today as athletes with youth and experience topped the podium at the Asian Games here.

ensure a fourth successive victory for China in the sport.Xia Xinyi completed a hat-trick of women’s beach

volleyball titles with a third different partner as she came out on top alongside Xue Chen following

Rain continues to blight the women’s cricket tournament at the Asian Games here as another quarter-final match turned out to be a washout.

Delgaco and Hong Kong’s Leung Wing Wun who qualified from the other semi-final.There was also action in volleyball

, beach volleyball and sailing today while it was the opening day of table tennis competition with China

India and Pakistan advanced to the semi-finals of the women's cricket tournament here after benefitting from a rain-hit day at the Asian Games.

Indonesia.Other events that have taken place in the past couple of days include modern pentathlon, rowing, beach

volleyball and volleyball at Hangzhou 2022.

Fiji has named a squad of 592 for this year's Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands - and will compete in 23 sports.

Rasaku and Alusio Vakadranu.The other sports Fiji will compete in are archery, athletics, basketball, beach

volleyball, boxing, football, golf, hockey, karate, netball, powerlifting, rugby league nines, sailing

, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, touch rugby, triathlon, va'a, volleyball and weightlifting

Italy finished top of the medals table at the 2023 Mediterranean Beach Games in Heraklion, on the island

gifts.ICMG President Davide Tizzano, third from left, visited the Libyan delegation at the Mediterranean Beach

of 20 medals included 12 golds, two silvers and six bronzes.Italy were bound for gold in the women’s beach

volleyball final as Reka Orsi Toth and Giada Bianchi beat compatriots Margherita Bianchin and Claudia

Scampoli 21-12, 21-15.But the nation's hopes of a beach volleyball double fell as David Benzi and Carlo

21, 15-13 win over Gianluca Dal Corso and Marco Viscovich of Italy.Τhe medal ceremony in the women's beach

Ariana Bridi ensured an Italian clean sweep of the open water swimming events at the Mediterranean Beach

The men's five-kilometre race was first to be contested on Karteros beach with Guidi completing the four-lap

I am happy that I won gold after getting the silver medal in the previous Mediterranean Beach Games."

Italian success in store later in the day as Giulia Gasparri and Doriano Beccaccioli triumphed in the beach

was contested over the same distance.The Games are due to conclude tomorrow with medals to be won in beach

tennis, beach volleyball, and finswimming.

Greece won four of the eight golds available today at the Mediterranean Beach Games in the Greek city

After boosting their total of golds to 10 with a clean sweep in all eight women’s beach handball finals

🥇🥈🥉The medal table of the Mediterranean Beach Games "Heraklion 2023" after five days of competition

33.19.Silver went to France in 2:35.39, with Italy claiming bronze in 2:36.14.🥇🥇2023 MEDITERRANEAN BEACH

Eva Fernandez Palos and Antonio Miguel Ramos Viera.Greece also had success on the second day of the beach

volleyball programme, with Jason Kanellos and Georgios Terzoglou reaching the last eight of the men’

Calls are being made to ban Iran from next year’s Olympics in Paris after claims that the country is violating the Olympic Charter over its discrimination against women in sport.

proposed that the IOC should either banish Iran from the Games or prevent them from competing in boxing, beach

volleyball, gymnastics, swimming and wrestling where Iranian women are banned under the Islamic regime.French

Australia have named a 20-strong athletics team as well as eight judokas for this year's Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands.

several sports at Port Moresby 2015.Australia is set to participate in archery, athletics, boxing, beach

volleyball, judo, sailing, taekwondo and weightlifting.

Santa Monica has announced a preliminary construction plan for its hosting of beach volleyball competition

Santa Monica City Council has submitted a guarantee to confirm its beach will be available during the

1 North car park and beach venue area are expected to be fenced off.Later in August, on dates to be

confirmed, the fencing would be taken down, requiring the use of 800 parking spaces in the Beach Lot

volleyball at LA 2028 ©Getty Images"We’re looking forward to both the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2028

volleyball, Santa Monica is also due to host skateboarding and surfing during LA 2028, as well as 3x3

Poreč in Croatia has here been awarded hosting rights for the next edition of the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) World Championships due to be held in 2025.

hosted the European Archery Championships, Davis Cup tennis matches and events on the International Volleyball

Federation Beach Volleyball World Tour, now the Beach Pro Tour, in recent years.The Intersport Sport

Almost a half of Australian athletes considered to be hopefuls for the 2032 Olympic Games in Brisbane are thinking of quitting their sport, a damning survey has revealed.

survey’s findings were "extremely concerning".Natalie Cook, who was part of the Australian women’s beach

volleyball team that won gold at Syndey 2000, claimed that she had "known for a long time that our national

Members of the Santa Monica City Council are set to recommend that the body guarantees the use of its beach

for the 2028 Olympic Games beach volleyball competitions.

 "And then we hosted the marathon, the beach wasn't even used and the volleyball was held in Long

Beach.

The United States will be aiming to extend their Olympic beach volleyball medal tally on home sand at

with Venice Beach."

I look forward to welcoming the world to Santa Monica when it is the venue for beach volleyball in the

A new course in Olympic and Paralympic storytelling is set to begin at the University of Southern California (USC) in preparation for Los Angeles 2028.

scheduled to open the series tomorrow alongside Olympic journalist Alan Abrahamson.Daine Blanton, men’s beach

volleyball gold medallist on Bondi Beach at Sydney 2000, is also set to take part,Other participants