Final, showpiece of the English football season.Competition at the Festival took place in athletics, swimming

By Duncan Mackay at The Hilton Hotel in GlasgowA special commemorative pin for Glasgow 2014 has been released by the Cayman Islands Olympic Committee (CIOC).

1978.They will compete in seven sports: athletics, boxing, cycling, gymnastics, shooting, squash and swimming

By Zjan ShirinianSix-time Sochi 2014 gold medallist Roman Petushkov has been awarded the Juan Antonio Samaranch International Olympic Committee Disabled Athlete Award.

skier Petushkov voted IPC Athlete of the Month after golden FebruaryFebruary 2013: Double Paralympic swimming

By Duncan MackayRussia's anti-doping agency RUSADA has announced that Vladimir Dyatchin, the two-time world open water champion, has been provisionally suspended for failing a drug test.

RUSADA revealed that the samples that Dyatchin provided for testing at Russia's Open Water Swimming Championships

a temporary ban since early April.The 31-year-old Dyatchin won gold in the 10 kilometres open water swimming

In 2002 he also won European Championships gold in the same discipline.In 2007 he was voted Swimming

2014: London 2012 breaststroke medallist Efimova handed 16-month ban after positive testJanuary 2014: Swimming

By David OwenUK Sport, Britain's elite sport funding body, shared out more than £80 million ($136.8 million/€101.1 million) of Nationl Lottery grant payments in the year ending March 2014, a 75 per cent increase on the previous year.

British Swimming                                    £2.38 million ($4 million/€3 million)5.   

By Gary AndersonCreators of the Samsung accessibility map mobile application have announced that the service continues to be expanded and updated across Russia in the wake of the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi.

with Sochi 2014 and the "United Country" Foundation for People with Disabilities.Russian Paralympic swimming

By Emily GoddardFiji has set a budget of more than $2 million (£1.2 million/€1.5 million) to send a team to next year's Pacific Games in Port Moresby.

golf, hockey, karate, lawn bowls, netball, powerlifting, sailing, shooting, softball, squash, surfing, swimming

By Duncan MackayBaku 2015 has appointed Paul Foster, the former head of protocol, events and hospitality at the International Olympic Committee (IOC), to its director of protocol for the inaugural European Games, it was announced today. 

Mobile named official mobile telecommunications service provider for Baku 2015June 2014: Russian Olympic swimming

By Gary AndersonFive-time Olympic swimming gold medallist Ian Thorpe has revealed he is gay in an interview

life.Contact the writer of this story at [email protected] StoriesFebruary 2014: Olympic swimming

By Zjan ShirinianThe dates for the 2015 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming World Championships

be held for eight days from July 18 to 25 next year.But the Scottish city's Tollcross International Swimming

British Swimming together with Glasgow City Council, Glasgow Life, EventScotland and UK Sport believe

Swimming."

The Tollcross International Swimming Centre, venue for events at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games,

will also stage the IPC Swimming World Championships ©Getty ImagesGlasgow was announced as the host

By Duncan MackayAzerbaijan's First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva has used a visit to Cannes to promote next year's inaugural European Games. 

Ambassador to Italy visits European Olympic Committees Rome headquartersJune 2014: Russian Olympic swimming

By Gary AndersonThe Belgian Paralympic Committee (BPC) has announced the composition of its Selection Committee for Rio 2016, with a number of former medallists nominated to the body, including double gold medal winner Mark De Meyer.

and is one of three former Paralympians chosen for the Selection Committee.He is joined by three-time swimming

By Gary AndersonOlympic diving gold medallist Chantelle Newbery has pleaded guilty to drug charges in an Australian court and been placed on a drugs diversion programme after police were alleged to have found a quantity of methylamphetamine, commonly known as crystal meth, in her home earlier this year.

Sydney.Contact the writer of this story at [email protected] StoriesFebruary 2014: Olympic swimming

England (CGE) chief executive in the autumn to take up a similar role as the new head of the Amateur Swimming

I am extremely proud to have been given the role of chief executive of the Amateur Swimming Association

I want to help the organisation get more people swimming and look forward to making a real impact."

The ASA is the national governing body for swimming, diving, water polo, open water, and synchronised

swimming in England and its chief focus is the growing of participation and development of swimming

We are sure that he will bring dynamic leadership to the Amateur Swimming Association and look forward

By Emily GoddardThe Northern Mariana Islands have been named to host the 2021 Pacific Mini Games.

features the 12 sports of athletics, badminton, golf, tennis, canoe racing, volleyball, baseball, sailing, swimming

Gilbert C Ada Gymnasium, the Marianas High School Gymnasium, the TSL Sports Complex and the Kan Pacific Swimming