Four-time world swimming champion Qin Haiyang and basketball player Yang Liwei have been chosen as China

A mural in memory of those held in a torture camp at Chile's National Stadium in Santiago is to be painted in time for this year's Pan American Games.

there during the junta's regime, with the field and gallery used to hold men and women placed in the swimming

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

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

monitoring for pollution in the River Seine, after it was unusable for Paris 2024 test events in open water swimming

Swimming in the Seine has been banned since 1923 because of high pollution levels, but reopening it for

2025 is a key legacy ambition for organisers of next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games.Open water swimming

due to use the Seine at Paris 2024, but there were issues at last month's test events.An Open Water Swimming

with Paris 2024 and local authorities to ensure robust contingency plans are in place for next year".Swimming

in 2025.Triathlon, Para triathlon and open water swimming at Paris 2024 are due to start at Pont Alexandre

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced its athlete engagement and independent observer (IO) teams for the Asian Games, which are set to open in Hangzhou this week. 

to the stripping of 15 gold medals.Of the dozen athletes, 11 were from China, with seven coming from swimming

Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Stanislav Pozdnyakov has vowed to have a ban on athletes who are members of army club CSKA Moscow from competing in international competition lifted.

and I am confident that CSKA athletes in the near future will take to the Olympic tracks, stadiums, swimming

The Tunisian Taekwondo Federation (TTF) has appointed Kazakhstan's Yesbul Sultanov as the new head coach of its senior squad.

won two Olympic medals in taekwondo, making the martial art its third most successful sport behind swimming

Germany's Josefine Unterberger and Frenchman Mathis Rochat ended victorious at the Pentathlon Junior World Championships while Egyptians Zeina Amer and Moutaz Mohamed clinched the mixed relay title.

enough to see her clinch bronze.Unterberger finished some way off the top of the pack in the fencing and swimming

competition in Lithuania following a stunning all-round performance.They were the best pair in fencing and swimming

, and finished third and fourth in obstacle and swimming, respectively.It resulted in them notching up

Earlier this month in Brussels I chatted briefly with the Diamond League chief executive Petr Stastny, who opined that this season’s edition might well be the best since the event began in 2010.

They hit the bus station and the swimming pool where I sometimes trained."

The Zimbabwe Olympic Committee (ZOC) has welcomed the re-appointment of Kirsty Coventry as the country’s Minister for Sports, Art and Recreation.

The double Olympic swimming gold medallist has been given a second five-year term by Emmerson Mnangagwa

Thirty-five years ago today the cauldron in the Olympic Stadium in Seoul was set alight to mark the opening of the second summer Games to be held in Asia.

winning the men’s 100m butterfly title to become the first black swimmer to win an individual Olympic swimming

gold.Seoul 1988 was Kristin Otto winning six swimming gold medals having been nurtured in an East German

the full extent of this operation was revealed in the courthouse of Berlin’s Moabit district, as four swimming

Hungary defeated the unbeaten reigning champions Spain 13-10 to earn gold at the World Aquatics Women’s U20 Water Polo Championships in Coimbra in Portugal.

The Hungarian team, which led the final from start to finish at the Olympic Swimming Pool Centre, had

Marcello Guidi and Ariana Bridi ensured an Italian clean sweep of the open water swimming events at the

Greece won four of the eight golds available today at the Mediterranean Beach Games in the Greek city of Heraklion on the island of Crete, to move into second place in the medal table, just one gold adrift of Spain.

Greece began as they meant to go on in the finswimming - an underwater sport which involves competitors swimming

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.

banish Iran from the Games or prevent them from competing in boxing, beach volleyball, gymnastics, swimming