Minsk 2019 have confirmed 10 sports will offer a form of qualification to Tokyo 2020 at next year’s European Games.

offer in these five sports as the countdown continues towards the Olympic Games.Non-Olympic sports beach

soccer and sambo also feature on the programme, along with Olympic sports beach volleyball, 3x3 basketball

qualification process for the San Diego 2019 Association of National Olympic Committee (ANOC) World Beach

the inaugural Games, which are scheduled to take place from October 10 to 15 next year.Two sports, beach

handball and beach soccer, are set to begin on October 9 with the Opening Ceremony taking place the

tennis and a 4x4 beach volleyball competition.The programme will be completed by bouldering, wakeboarding

, a waterski jump event, kiteboarding and beach wrestling.The event was initially due to take place in

Games after 2019.The deal is said to recognise ANOC’s important efforts in launching the World Beach

What a difference a year can make.

 During Beijing 2008, Russia and Georgia met in beach volleyball just after the former country had

the power of sport to transcend political quarrels.Alas, not.Georgia's clash with Russia in women's beach

volleyball at the Beijing 2008 Olympics did not highlight sport's unifying role and instead showed how

Sore losers," responded Georgian Volleyball Federation President, Levan Akhvlediani, according to The

Russian pairing Oleg Stoyanovskiy and Igor Velichko earned their first gold medal on the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach World Tour as they defeated fellow countrymen Viacheslav Krasilnikov and Nikita

In the women’s final at the Guanyinshan Golden Beach venue Canada’s Commonwealth Games champions Sarah

Commonwealth Games champions Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes won the gold medal at the FIVB Beach

Poland 2-1 - 22-20, 21-17 – to reach the Xiamen Open men’s final in the latest leg of the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach World Tour.

final in a row after taking silver in Doha in March.Their win against Poland at the Guanyinshan Golden Beach

final," Stoyanovskiy added.Agatha Bednarczuk of Brazil, left, has reached the semi-finals of the FIVB Beach

Canada’s Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes finished top of Pool A on day three of the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach World Tour in Xiamen after a tough match against Kerri Walsh Jennings and Nicole

established Commonwealth Games champions eventually prevailed on centre court at the Guanyinshan Golden Beach

, 22-24, 18-16.April Ross and Alexandra Klineman of the US, winners of the year-opening 4-Star Dela Beach

Anders Berntsen Mol and Christian Sandlie Sørum produced the upset of the day at the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach World Tour event in the Chinese venue of Xiamen as they beat Brazil’s  

Alison previously won gold in Xiamen, an International Volleyball Federation four-star event, with Vitor

Games gold medallists Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes got off to a winning start in the FIVB Beach

In Lithuania we don’t have a lot of competitions and our Federation encouraged us to join the snow volleyball

In beach you can run to the whole court, but in the snow, you can only run a couple of steps."

We played snow volleyball and we won that tour, it was crazy, but after that we had a beach camp in Turkey

The World Baseball and Softball Confederation (WBSC) have launched a new discipline called Baseball5 designed to grow the sport at grassroots level.

just a sport by turning it into an entertainment spectacle, as has been the case with sports such as beach

volleyball and Twenty20 cricket.Additionally, they hope to be included on the programme for the proposed

ANOC) have signed a landmark partnership agreement covering the organisation of editions of the World Beach

The deal is said to recognise ANOC’s important efforts in launching the World Beach Games and GAISF’s

International Sports Federations are due to play a more direct role in the organisation of the ANOC World Beach

Beach sports continue to grow in popularity and prominence and the partnership will ensure that GAISF

 "We are very excited by the huge potential of the World Beach Games.

, aquathlon, beach tennis and a 4x4 beach volleyball competition.The programme will be completed by bouldering

Birmingham 2022 will announce their full sport programme for the Commonwealth Games later this year, officials have revealed.

highlighting the popularity of track cycling in the country, while he appeared to downplay the chances of beach

volleyball being included, despite it debuting at Gold Coast 2018."

As you know London 2012 did it [beach volleyball], and did it very successfully."

“I think beach volleyball on the Gold Coast was a great fit."

England’s Tom Daley has called for the Commonwealth to work towards changing attitudes of country’s who criminalise homosexuality, after winning gold at Gold Coast 2018 here today.

Same-sex marriage was made legal in Australia in December.Prior to these Games, Grevemberg and Olympic beach

volleyball gold medallist Natalie Cook officially launched the Gold Coast Pride House International

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10m platform event ©Getty ImagesVanuatu claimed their second Commonwealth Games medal in history with beach

volleyball bronze ©Getty ImagesAustralia were crowned the first Commonwealth Games beach volleyball

Chris McHugh and Damien Schumann of Australia were crowned the first Commonwealth Games beach volleyball

Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan denied Australia a golden double when they won the women's event as beach

volleyball made its debut t the Commonwealth Games ©Getty ImagesAn error-strewn second set allowed their

It's a really pinching yourself sort of moment to have a home crowd and win gold the first time volleyball

more direct role in the organisation of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) World Beach

Haider Farman, the Olympic Council of Asia's sports director who is playing a key role organising the Beach

discussions".Vincent Mudd is the chairman of the Organising Committee for the inaugural ANOC World Beach

park terrain skateboarding event is also set to feature, along with beach soccer, open water swimming

, aquathlon, beach tennis and a 4x4 beach volleyball competition.The programme will be completed by bouldering

, wakeboarding, a waterski jump event, kiteboarding and beach wrestling.The event was initially due to

The resignation of Dominique Bizimana, secretary general of the Rwanda National Olympic and Sports Committee (RNOSC), has been announced at the organisation's General Assembly.

have medical insurance effective next year in order to be able to compete.Rwanda's women competing in beach

volleyball at the ongoing Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games ©Getty ImagesWhile addressing the assembly