Organisers of the 2018 Asian Games are holding a beach volleyball test event at Jakabaring Sports City

complex will host at least 18 sports disciplines during the 18th edition of the quadrennial event.Asian Volleyball

Indonesia are Candra Rachmawan and Mohammad Ashfiya, who triumphed at last month’s Southeast Asian Beach

Volleyball Championship in Singapore.The 2018 Asian Games are scheduled to take place from August 18

The Brazilian University Sports Confederation (CBDU) has presented its first group of volunteers who will assist at their major events.  

year's JUBs.Sports on the programme are athletics, badminton, judo, swimming, tennis, table tennis, beach

volleyball, chess, basketball, futsal, 3x3 basketball, handball, taekwondo, e-sports and volleyball.

Russia's Maxim Sivolap and Igor Velichko claimed their first International Volleyball Federation (FIVB

) Beach World Tour title at the Qinzhou Open today.

Kolosinska and Katarzyna Kociolek continued their remarkable run to reach the final of the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach World Tour Qinzhou Open today.

Boehle and Steven Van de Velde caused a major upset to reach the quarter-finals at the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach World Tour Qinzhou Open today.

Tom van Walle of Belgium won a marathon first set on their way to progression at the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach World Tour Qinzhou Open today.

Gold Coast 2018 chief executive Mark Peters has stated preparations are well advanced for next year's Commonwealth Games, with only temporary facilities left to be completed.

Two of the larger projects requiring temporary changes will be the Gold Coast Aquatics Centre and the beach

volleyball venue.The Aquatics Centre, which hosted the 2014 Pan Pacific Championships, will be transformed

volleyball, allowing the sport to make its Commonwealth Games debut.Temporary stands will turn the Gold

volleyball at Coolangatta," Peters said."

We obviously want to get those iconic views, but it is right on the beach."

claimed a straight sets win to move into the main draw of the men's competition at the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach World Tour Qinzhou Open.

tournament, Alice Bain and Julia Tilley of New Zealand secured their first main draw appearance at a FIVB Beach

Volleyball World Tour three-star event by winning their qualification match.Bain and Tilley beat Kim

duo Amanda Harnett and Sophie Bukovec 21-12, 21-11.The event in Qinzhou is the second in the new FIVB Beach

Goiás, which hosted the last World University Futsal Championship, is gearing up for the Brazilian University Games (JUBs) which will involve more than 5,000 athletes between October 18 and 29. 

Sports will include badminton, 3×3 basketball, judo, athletics, swimming, beach volleyball, tennis, table

tennis, chess, e-sports, basketball, futsal, handball, volleyball and table tennis.This year's edition

For many Commonwealth Games Associations, the next five days will present a first glimpse of Gold Coast 2018.

for swimming and 2,500 for diving will also need to be completed, along with the development of the beach

volleyball venue at Coolangatta, a sport preparing for its Commonwealth Games debut.

The International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) and World ParaVolley have penned an Memorandum of Understanding.

opportunities provided to athletes with physical impairments around the world," said DePace.Sitting volleyball

is currently a Paralympic sport ©Getty ImagesAs part of the agreement, Para-volleyball disciplines could

be included at future editions of the IWAS Games.Sitting volleyball is currently a part of the Paralympic

 "Future cooperative activities could well include both sitting volleyball and standing beach volleyball

Freestyle frisbee and beach taekwondo are among sports included on the programme for the first African

Beach Games due to be held in Cape Verde in 2019.

 Both frisbee and taekwondo will be flying a first major appearance at a regional beach sport

a programme which prioritises events actually taking place on water and sand more than at the Asian Beach

Games.Beach versions of handball, volleyball, tennis, freestyle football, futebol and 3x3 basketball

These are joined by rowing and canoeing and marathon and fin swimming and pétanque.The inaugural World Beach

Adapted sport - beach" is also listed, with this seemingly a reference to a Paralympic event being included.Exact

Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) President John Coates is confident that athletes from Oceania will have a chance to participate at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou after all - but only in certain sports.

15,000 athletes for the quadrennial event.He instead urged Oceania to focus on competing at the Asian Beach

for Oceania is done through Asia.This predominantly relates to team sports such as basketball, volleyball

Members of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) Executive Board have delivered a ringing endorsement for their President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah following corruption allegations which an Ethics panel concluded were "fake and fabricated".

Commission has two main jobs," declared the Chinese official, a former President of the International Volleyball

other OCA officials with a prospective Chinese marketing agent allegedly held during the 2012 Asian Beach

Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah appears to have shut the door on teams from Oceania participating at the full Asian Games.

He instead urged athletes from the continent to focus on the Asian Beach Games and the Asian Indoor and

In Asia we have indoor Games, Winter Games, Beach Games and Main Games."

I believe the [Asian]Indoor and Beach Games can be the event to have our coordination and cooperation

sliver of light by citing the possibility of qualification events being introduced in the sport of volleyball

If we do start the qualification in volleyball, there are some Asian Federations who could maybe do qualification