UK Sport has launched a national squads support fund with the aim of supporting the development of credible national teams in several sports.

critical path to the Olympic and Paralympic Games.UK Sport confirmed the sports of handball, sitting volleyball

and water polo will each receive up to £375,000 ($521,000/€441,000), while volleyball and wrestling

Tokyo 2020 has held its wheelchair rugby test event over two days as preparations for the rescheduled Olympic and Paralympic Games continue.

swimming and cycling test events are also planned to take place in April, with the May schedule including volleyball

Floor provider Gerflor has extended its deal with World ParaVolley for the next four years.

athletes that Gerflor has agreed to continue with homologation of their playing surfaces for sitting volleyball

Sitting volleyball playing surfaces will now feature "anti-viral activity" against coronaviruses, it

The National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) has stated its hope to keep the country's team preparing for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in a bubble system, following the Government's new restrictions to combat COVID-19.

joined in bubble training by the rugby sevens men's and women's teams, as well as the women's national volleyball

The Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games Organising Committee has confirmed its sailing venue, the Zhejiang Ocean Sports Center, has been completed.

events outside the main hub of Hangzhou.The city is 140 kilometres away from Hangzhou itself and beach volleyball

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has suspended its zero classification policy and will allow athletes in ten sports to be graded in the host city before Tokyo 2020.

which will be able to classify in Tokyo are athletics, boccia, canoeing, cycling, judo, rowing, sitting volleyball

The International Volleyball Federation has topped the latest edition of sports marketing agency Redtorch

The fifth edition of Redtorch’s #SportOnSocial League Table compares 2020 data against that from the previous four years. This enables us to provide insights for Olympic International Federations (IFs) on the impact of the pandemic on sport and the challenges faced by social media teams.

strong performance in the #SportOnSocial League Table of IFs fortunate enough to hold events in 2020:Volleyball

World, an International Volleyball Federation page, gained a massive 983,000 Facebook fans, the largest

fan growth being in January 2020 during the women’s and men's continental Tokyo 2020 Olympic volleyball

 The Volleyball World Facebook page experienced significant fan growth in January 2020 during Olympic

Tokyo 2020 is set to resume test events for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, with organisers hopeful of inviting overseas competitors and domestic spectators to an athletics competition in May.

swimming and cycling test events are also planned to take place in April, with the May schedule including volleyball

Southeast Asian Games taekwondo gold medallist Pauline Lopez has taken part in an inspiring online campaign for young people in the Philippines, in a bid to create a new generation of athletes.

programmes.This includes Tokyo 2020 Olympic gymnast Carlos Yulo, international taekwondo star Japoy Lizardo and volleyball

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) says 62 per cent of places at Tokyo 2020 have been awarded so far, but admits it may need to make further changes to qualification criteria if competitions are cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

basketball and wheelchair rugby - have already completed the qualification process.While in sitting volleyball

This year's European Universities Games in Belgrade have been postponed indefinitely because of concerns over the coronavirus pandemic.

the programme for the Games.These are badminton, basketball, 3x3 basketball, beach handball, beach volleyball

futsal, handball, judo, karate, kickboxing, orienteering, rowing, rugby sevens, table tennis, taekwondo, volleyball

and water polo.Para-table tennis is also on the programme, as is sitting volleyball as a demonstration

Games, and construction is well underway on four other sites that will host baseball, rock climbing, volleyball

is designed to have 2,100 seats.The Gymnasium of China Textile City Sports Center, which will host volleyball

Iran's two-time Asian Games champion Farhad Ghaemi has retired from international volleyball.

Asian Championships.Iran's two-time Asian Games champion Farhad Ghaemi has retired from international volleyball

A year after it was originally scheduled to do so, the Olympic Flame has finally started its 121-day journey around Japan.

mounted Samurai held in the area.The Relay will resume its journey tomorrow in Sōma, with triple Olympian volleyball