A group of 24 teams will begin their search for six available tickets to Tokyo 2020 tomorrow with the International Volleyball Federation Men’s International Olympic Qualification Tournament set to get underway.

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The teams are divided into six pools of four, with the table toppers punching their tickets for next year’s Olympic Games.Brazil, who triumphed at their home Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 to secure a third Olympic gold medal in their history, will compete in Pool A at the Palace of Culture and Sports in Varna along with hosts Bulgaria, Egypt and Puerto Rico.They are the only country to have played in every single edition of the Olympic Games since volleyball was introduced to the programme at Tokyo 1964.Reigning world champions Poland, meanwhile, will face some very tough opposition when they welcome France, Slovenia and Tunisia to the Pool D event at Ergo Arena in Gdańsk.

Rio 2016 silver medalists Italy will also need to overcome a huge hurdle when they meet Serbia at Pala Florio in Bari.Australia and Cameroon complete the Pool C line-up.Three-time Olympic champions the United States are on the road in their quest to make Tokyo 2020, travelling to the Rotterdam Ahoy to go up against hosts The Netherlands, Belgium and South Korea in Pool B.

The Americans were bronze medalists last time around in Rio 2016.Reigning European champions Russia are at home at the Sibur Arena in Saint Petersburg, but they are in for a tough challenge from Iran in Pool E, which also includes Cuba and Mexico.

This is the only qualification pool in which all four participants played at Rio 2016.Russia finished fourth after blowing a two-set lead against the US in the bronze medal match, while Cuba and Mexico failed to make it beyond the preliminary round.

Fans who want to watch the live competition of Olympic Softball can get Olympic Softball Tickets online.Britain needed just three innings to beat South Africa 15-0 at Sports park de Paperclip, while the Dutch defeated Spain 7-0 later in the day.

It will follow the match between Spain and South Africa, both of whom have been eliminated from the tournament.

In Group B, Italy continued their perfect start with a 2-0 success over the Czech Republic.The Italians scored the first point in the second inning with a Giulia Longhi double and they wrapped up victory in the sixth.

It came after France had bounced back from their loss against the Czech Republic yesterday to overcome Botswana 11-2.The outcome of Group B will be finalized tomorrow when Italy meets France and Botswana take on the Czechs.

The top two teams will join Britain and the Netherlands in the super round, due to be held on Friday (July 26) and Saturday (July 27).

The winner of that will gain a berth for next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo.Great Britain's women's softball team has moved a step closer to qualification for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games.

New Zealand Rugby's head of high-performance Mike Anthony has revealed that star players from the country's All Blacks squad turned down the chance to be part of the Tokyo Olympics 2020 sevens team.No players from the All Blacks the back-to-back Rugby World Cup winners have been released from their clubs to play in the sport's smaller format in the run-up to the Olympic Games.

Players were approached from September but Anthony said all had declined.

"A number of them ruled themselves out when we got responses either from the players or their agents he said to Stuff which speculated that Rieko Ioane, Sevu Reece, and George Bridge were likely among those contacted.

At the end of the day those players have made a decision that they want to focus their energy elsewhere, given the challenges at the end of the year and coaching and so on.

So they let us know which allowed us to focus on the group that was keen to be a part of it.

"Four players have been released from their Super Rugby club sides to join the sevens preparations Caleb Clarke, Etene Nanai-Seturo, Salesi Rayasi, and Scott Gregory.

They become the third nation to reach the Games joining the United States and hosts Japan next summer after a comfortable victory in Utrecht in the Netherlands.

Fans who want to watch the live competition of Olympics Softball can get Olympics Softball Tickets online.It completes a superb double for the Italians after they won their 11th Women's European Softball Championship title.

Starting pitcher Greta Cecchetti was an unresolved force today for Italy, throwing a shutout game in 99 pitches with 13 strikes and only two hits.The Italians are the third of six qualifiers for the return of softball to the Olympics two teams will progress from the Americas Qualifier that will take place in Surrey Canada.

The other will come from the Asia/Oceania Qualifier in Shanghai China.Earlier, European Championship runners-up the Netherlands secured third place in the Europe/Africa Qualifier by defeating the Czech Republic 7-0.

Greta Cecchetti and Georgina Warrick were the starting pitchers.Italy took the lead in the first inning.

Amanda Fama was hit by a pitch with one out Emily Carosone singled.

Fleet racing concluded in five classes at the Tokyo Olympics 2020 sailing test event today to set-up intriguing medal races at Enoshima Yacht Harbor.

The men's and women's RS: X the 49er, the 49erFX and the Nacra 17 will all be decided tomorrow when action resumes on the Olympic course.

Fans who want to watch the live competition of Olympics Sailing can get Olympics Sailing Tickets online.YunXiu Lu of China has a seven-point lead over Israel's Katy Spychakov in the women's RS: X with reining Olympics champion Charline Picon of France a further three points back.

China also leads the men's RS: X with Mengfan Gao 16 points in front of Frenchman Thomas Goyard and looking well-placed for victory.In the 49er, New Zealand's reigning Olympic champions Peter Burling and Blair Tuke are 13 points in front at the top ahead of Lukasz Przybytek and Pawel Kolodzinski of Poland.

Britain's Charlotte Dobson and Saskia Tidey enjoy the advantage in the 49erFX with a seven-point lead over Brazil's Rio 2016 winners Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze.In the Nacra 17, just 10 points separate first from fifth with Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti of Italy the leaders.

They have a two-point gap over John Gimson and Anna Burney of Britain in the mixed-gender class.

Softball Australia has partnered with National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) in the United States with one eye on the Olympic 2020 in Tokyo.

The deal means 8 female players of Softball from Australia will play in the women's softball league for Chicago Bandits.

Fans who want to watch the live competition of Olympic Softball can get Olympic Softball Tickets online.Australian high-performance Softball coaches will also work with the Bandits’ Softball coaching staff during the complete season.

But they only finished 10th at last year's World Softball Championships in Canada at Beijing 2008 at the sport's last appearance at the Olympics Australia won the bronze medal.Softball Australia chief executive Chet Gray said.

"This partnership between Softball Australia and National Pro Fastpitch is a critical step forward for our women’s high-performance programmer looking towards the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

"Our program needs to focus firstly on improving our performance from the 2016 WBSC World Championship and then on qualifying for the Olympic Games.

New Zealand's reigning Olympics champions Peter Burling and Blair Tuke have regained the lead in the men's 49er class at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics test event.

Two second-places and a third in Enoshima were enough for the Rio 2016 gold medalists to replace Lukasz Przybytek and Pawel Kolodzinski of Poland at the top of the pile.

Fans who want to watch the live competition of Olympics Sailing can get Olympics Sailing Tickets online.It came on a day of shifting winds and tricky conditions which provided a different challenge to yesterday's action where light breezes forced a curtailing of the schedule.

It means the sailors competing are getting a good impression of what the conditions could be like at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics regatta next year.Elsewhere Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti of Italy continue to lead the Nacra 17 class despite collecting a ninth their worst result of the week so far.

It looks like there will be two more light wind days coming up so we'll see what they get.

"Maria Erdi of Hungary finished 32nd to lose her lead in the laser radial which is now headed by Belgium's Emma Plasschaert.

The first round of athletes has been selected to represent the USA on the IFSC World Cup Circuit in hopes of Olympic qualification with those five multi-colored rings and Tokyo 2020 on every competitive climber’s mind athletes around the world have been training full throttle for Olympic 2020.

For the selection of U.S athletes, the first part step is to earn a spot on Team USA.

Fans who want to watch the live competition of Olympic Sport Climbing can get Olympic Sport Climbing Tickets online.Now 8 athletes’ 4 women and four men have taken that step and are that much closer to Tokyo 2020.

USA Climbing announced the team on Instagram the members of the U.S Overall National Team Sean Bailey, Kyra Condie, Ashima Shiraishi, Brooke Raboutou, Drew Ruana, Zach Galla, Nathaniel Coleman, and Margo Hayes.They will compete on the IFSC (International Federation of Sport Climbing) competition circuit over the next year in hopes of earning one of the 40 20 for men 20 for women spots available for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.How were these climbers chosen?

The first was to win the Combined Invitational this is how Kyra Condie and Zach Galla secured their places.

Even if you weren’t Condie or Galla through your performance still mattered and served as selection criteria, along with how you did in the Bouldering Open National Championships and the Open Sport and Speed National Championships.Nathaniel Coleman and Brooke Raboutou could arrogance themselves on coming in second place at the Combined putting them in good standing.

Defending champions Switzerland began strongly in the women’s quadruple sculls at the World Rowing Junior Championships opened with heats action in Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

The regatta is the first international competition to be held at the Sea Forest Waterway and is doubling as the test event for next year’s Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Celia Dupre is the only Swiss paddler to remain from the country’s 2018 women’s quadruple sculls win but they won their heat to book their place in the semi-finals.

In the men’s double sculls Hamish Henriques and Harrison Fox of Australia, Dmitrii Domashev and Anton Vasin of Russia, Matteo Sartori and Nicolo Carucci of Italy and Paul Krueger and Aaron Erfanian of Germany won their heats to book semi-final spots.

Three heats in the men’s pair saw wins for Romania’s Florin Arteni-Fintinariu and Alexandru Gherasim, Victor Toston Lamm and Gregoire Charles of France and Achille Benazzo and Alessandro Bonamoneta of Italy, while in the men’s single sculls the heat winners were Belgian Tristan Vandenbussche, Gennaro di Mauro of Italy Joost Schwarz of The Netherlands and Ivan Brynza of Belarus.

Evangelia Fragkou and Evangelia Anastasiadou of Greece were among the heat winners in the women’s double sculls, alongside China’s Peibing Zhang and Hairong Zhang, Belgium’s Caitlin Govaert and Jeanne Lenom and Dutch duo Lisa Bruijnincx and Jacobien van Westreemen.

Triathletes will have the opportunity to inspect the conditions they could face at Tokyo 2020 during the World Olympic qualifier this week, which doubles as a test event for next year's Games.

Fans from all over the world who want to watch the live-action can buy Olympic Triathlon tickets online.Water quality at Odaiba Park is set to be the main challenge for the athletes who are due to compete over the four days.

Some competitors criticized the quality of the water during the marathon swimming test event at the same venue earlier this week.The International Swimming Federation (FINA) and the International Triathlon Union (ITU) voiced similar concerns in 2017 after a survey revealed it was not good enough to meet their required standards.Fears have been allayed since following the publication of improved results last year, while FINA Medical Committee member David Gerrard claimed during the open water swimming test event that "daily readings had given us a clear indication of good water quality".But Tokyo 2020 will still be keeping a close eye on the standard of the water during the ITU World Olympic qualification event.

The ITU has also implemented a series of measures for the competition, which begins with the women's race tomorrow, to help protect athletes from the expected high heat and humidity.The start times of the races have been brought forward, while athletes will benefit from air-conditioned areas before and after the competition.

Extra water stations will be installed at the venue and competitors will be allowed to wear cooling vests until their official introduction.With Tokyo 2020 qualification up for grabs, this week's event, which concludes with the mixed relay on Sunday (August 18), has attracted a strong field.

In the women's race, world champion and Olympic bronze medalist Vicky Holland of Britain will go up against American Katie Zaferes, who leads the World Triathlon Series standings with four victories so far this season.Bermuda’s Flora Duffy, a two-time world champion, is set to make her return to competition following a long injury lay-off.Australian Jacob Birtwhistle arrives in the Japanese capital as the favorite in the men's race on Friday (August 16).

Five teams remain unbeaten after day two of the World Baseball Softball Confederation Softball Americas Olympic qualifier in Canada.

Ten sides have gathered at Softball City in Surrey in a bid to earn one of two places available at next year's Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games.

Fans who want to watch the live competition of Olympics Softball can get Olympics Softball Tickets online.Hosts Canada, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela all sit on two victories from two as the second round of group matches were played.

The Canadians were awarded a 7-0 walkover against Argentina who has dropped out of the competition.Puerto Rico is on the same record as the hosts as they also registered a second win by thumping Guatemala 13-0.

Cuba thrashed 17-0 by Canada on day one, got off the mark as they subjected The Bahamas to a second defeat with a 13-0 win.They now join Guatemala on a record of one win, one defeat.

There is clear daylight in Group B already as today's defeated teams have now all lost twice.

The British Mountaineering Council (BMC) has selected Tom Greenall as the GB Climbing head coach in its quest for success at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Fans who want to watch the live competition of Olympic Sport Climbing can get Olympic Sport Climbing Tickets online.The role has been shaped in partnership with the English Institute of Sport and has been funded through the National Lottery backed UK Sport medal support plan and UK Sport aspiration program.TOM Greenall has extensive experience of international performance coaching and the design implementation and management of the elite level climbing program and is expected to lead the nation into Tokyo 2020 Summer Games where climbing will make its Olympic debut.He previously led Britain's junior bouldering team as a manager and coach and was a calculated lead for talent profiling in climbing with the BMC.Greenall said.

“I am delighted to have been appointed as head coach for GB Climbing.

""We have a tremendous pool of talented and capable athletes here in Great Britain and I am looking forward to working with them in the pursuit of excellence in the coming months.

"Greenall has also supported elite climbers to podium success on the World Cup and World Championship stage and is leading British climber Shauna Coxsey's bid for Olympic qualification for Olympic 2020.Last month Molly Thompson-Smith and Will Bosi became the first British stars to reach the Lead World Cup final while Coxsey has achieved two bouldering podiums and set a British speed climbing record.Head of managed sport at the English Institute of Sport Lorraine Brown said the selection of Tom Greenall as a GB head coach is a groundbreaking moment for the BMC and GB Climbing and a continued statement of intent from the BMC to maximize the opportunity of Tokyo 2020.

"Tom’s personal philosophy to progress through innovation will ensure the GB climbers who qualify for Tokyo Olympic 2020 will be best prepared by maximizing the English Institute of Sport resources available.

Seventeen different nations will contest the Rugby Europe regional qualifiers for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games in France and Russia this weekend with the women's event to the most competitive of all.

Fans who want to watch the live competition of Olympics Rugby can get Olympics Rugby Tickets online.All eyes will be on Kazan and Colomiers this weekend as the best teams in Europe converge on the Russian and French cities to battle for the men's and women's regional qualifiers for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games.

The women's competition is a mouth-watering prospect, featuring the HSBC World Rugby Women's Sevens Series in France, England, Russia, Ireland, and Spain.This year's Olympics Games will be held for the first time in the world.

France are the first seeds of the first round of the Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Grand Prix series on home soil in Marcoussis last month, and will be favorites to win the title and book their ticket to the Olympic Games just as they did four years ago when they beat Spain 20-0 in the final in the race to Rio 2016.

Spain would later join the winners of the global repackage in Dublin.Courteix said.

"Spain, Russia, England, Ireland we are one of the five favorites to qualify for Tokyo 2020.

Canada, Puerto Rico and Mexico are vying for Tokyo Olympics 2020 when the World Softball Confederation (WBSC) Olympic Americas Qualifier tournament begins in Surrey in British Colombia tomorrow.

Fans who want to watch the live-action of Olympics Softball can get Olympics Softball Tickets online.Hosts Canada is the highest-ranked in the tournament which involves 12 teams and offers two tickets to the Olympic Games.

Canada took the bronze medal at the 2018 WBSC Women's World Championship in Japan, having also finished third in 2016.Softball Canada President Kevin Quinn said.

"We are really excited about the chance to host this Olympic Qualifier; we thank the WBSC for the opportunity.

Our host organizing committee led by Greg Timm is an experienced group that focuses on both the player and fan experience.

"CBC Sports and FloSports have been awarded exclusive broadcasting rights for the qualifying tournament.

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has exposed the schedule for its 12-nation Softball Americas Qualifier in Canadian city Surrey where the top two teams will secure a place at next years in Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Fans who want to watch the live competition of Olympic Softball can get Olympic Softball Tickets online.The event owes to be played over 8 days of competition from August 25 to September 1, and features 42 games.

Following a five-day opening round, the top three sides from each of the two groups will advance to the super round.Group landscapes Argentina the Bahamas, hosts Canada, Cuba, Guatemala, and Puerto Rico.

World number 5 ranked Mexico headline Group B which also includes Brazil the British Virgin Islands the Dominican Republic Peru, and Venezuela.The 2 teams with the best overall records following the super round will earn qualification into the Olympic softball tournament at Tokyo Olympic 2020 They will join hosts Japan and the United States as four of the six nations to be qualified for next year's Games.Tommy Velazquez chairman of the WBSC's Softball Division said.

"This international competition in Surrey will be one of the most important softball tournaments ever held in the Americas, granting two precious spots to the historic return of softball at the Tokyo Olympic 2020.

""Today the road to Tokyo is clear for our softball athletes across the Americas and what they need to accomplish to fulfill their Olympic dreams.

Mat Belcher and Will Ryan took over the lead in the 470 fleets at the Sailing World Cup in Japan, as they look for a third victory in quick succession on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics course.The Australian Olympic silver medalists won the 470 World Championship title at Enoshima Yacht Harbor at the start of this month then triumphed at the Olympic test event which concluded last week.

It came as extra races were added after the weather curtailed the schedule on each of the first two days.There were light breezes on day one which changed dramatically into huge winds and waves yesterday.

Big waves were still a feature today but a full programmer of racing was possible despite many boats capsizing.

Belcher the Olympic champion at London 2012 alongside Malcolm Page, and Ryan now sit on four points.Spain's Jordi Xammar Hernandez and Nicolas Rodriguez Garcia-Paz are five points behind.

China's Yunxiu Lu enjoyed a perfect day in the women's RS: X with three race victories and now leads the way by 11 points.

Olympic champion Charline Picon of France heads the chasing pack.Belgium's test event winner Emma Plasschaert has gone top in the women's laser radial despite an average day which saw her finish eighth, 15th and seventh.