By Gary AndersonChannel 4 chief executive David Abraham has admitted the broadcaster took a big gamble on its comprehensive coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games but the risk paid off as the success of the Games has helped change the attitude of people towards disability.

covering other major IPC events,including last year's World Athletics Championships in Lyon and World Swimming

By Gary AndersonAustralian swimmers will hold their staging camps in the build-up to the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games at Auburn University, Alabama, in the United States.

Making the announcement, Swimming Australia chief executive Mark Anderson claimed a number of options

will spend a similar amount of time there prior to the start of the Paralympic Games on September 7.Swimming

former Australian Olympic swimmer Brett Hawke is currently the head coach of the Auburn University swimming

programme.Former Australian Olympian Brett Hawke is now head coach of the Auburn University swimming

Swimming Australia held its staging camp for London 2012 in Spain, but a disappointing performance saw

By Nick ButlerBaku 2015 remain "fully confident" a suitable location will be found for the swimming leg

the Azerbaijani capital, with a finish at the Victory Celebration Plaza, and it is hoped the initial swimming

ultimately not be necessary, and this view was reiterated by Baku 2015 as they insisted an appropriate swimming

relates to sailing in Guanabara Bay, but also encompasses Copacabana Bay, where triathlon and open water swimming

By Nick ButlerUSA Swimming chief executive Chuck Wielgus has withdrawn his induction into the International

Swimming Hall of Fame following a report criticising his role in sexual abuse cases which occurred under

community", demanding that the International Swimming Hall of Fame rescind the induction of Wielgus,

executive director of USA Swimming since 1997.This petition has so far garnered 831 supporters.Chuck

was circulated by USA Swimming and the Hall of Fame revealing the nomination has been withdrawn. 

"After significant reflection and discussion, International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) chairwoman

"Both ISHOF and USA Swimming believe our mutual decision is in the best interest of the swimming community

By Nick ButlerA long-awaited announcement has finally been made as to which company will take charge of construction and renovation for the northern portion of the second main Rio 2016 venues cluster at Deodoro.

and others ©AFP/Getty ImagesThis will include the venues for canoe slalom, hockey, modern pentathlon swimming

of Deodoro, consists of venues requiring renovation, for shooting, equestrian and modern pentathlon swimming

By Nick ButlerIssues have to be addressed by the Swaziland Boxing Association (SWABA) before their boxers will be selected for the Commonwealth Games, but it is unlikely they will be prevented from competing.

to the African Youth Games in Gabarone, where aspiring athletes competed across the nine sports of swimming

Olympic silver medallist Keri-Anne Payne helped launch a drive to get more people involved in open water swimming

To mark the occasion Scottish Swimming, in partnership with Falkirk Community Trust and the Great Scottish

Swim, have organised four one-hour come and try open water swimming sessions this Sunday.The first session

The Helix is a fantastic new venue which is perfect for open water swimming," said chief executive of

Scottish Swimming, Forbes Dunlop."

Coach-led sessions are a great way for people to get into the sport and enjoy swimming with likeminded

The Games ran at a cost of $97,973.00 and featured six sports: aquatics (swimming and diving), athletics

By Zjan ShirinianTickets for the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming European Championships

save up to 15 per cent if they buy tickets online, the IPC has said.The event will be the biggest Para-swimming

swims in front of a home crowd in August ©AFP/Getty ImagesUkraine topped the medals table at the last Swimming

have named a 31-strong team for Eindhoven.The event takes place less than a year before the 2015 IPC Swimming

this story at [email protected] storiesApril 2014: IPC confident of "smooth" Swimming

European Championships in EindhovenJanuary 2014: Eindhoven announced as host venue for 2014 IPC European Swimming

By Paul OsborneThe Cayman Islands is set to send its largest ever delegation to the Commonwealth Games after naming 28 athletes to represent them at Glasgow 2014. 

compete in seven sports at the Games - athletics, boxing, cycling, gymnastics, shooting, squash and swimming

for this year's Games, which is due to begin on July 23, is led by a 10-strong athletics team, with swimming

By Paul OsborneA host of A-list celebrities and sports personalities have lent their support to the upcoming Invictus Games, appearing in a short film reciting the famous poem that forms the basis for the newly founded Games, launched by Prince Harry.

To have stars like these give us their support feels amazing," said Wilson, who hopes to compete in swimming

By Paul OsborneBusinessman Sir Owen Glenn visited the site of the highly anticipated National Aquatics Centre today as construction work enters its final year.

Auckland's North Shore, the official home for High Performance Sport New Zealand, will be a state-of-the-art swimming

 and water polo competition venue as well as a centre of excellence for Swimming New Zealand and New

facility will also be open to the public in order to serve the community's growing need for public swimming

rooms, reception, café and offices.When open, it will become the home of the organising bodies for swimming

New Zealand does not have an international standard aquatics centre and public demand for swimming, swimming

By Emily GoddardPhiladelphia officials today removed the Pennsylvanian city from the list of potential United States bidders for the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, joining New York City who had ruled themselves out earlier in the day. 

You have to build Olympic-scale facilities for swimming or track or whatever you don't have enough of

By Gary Anderson at the Intu Trafford Centre in ManchesterThe kit to be worn by more than 650 athletes and staff members of Team England at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games was unveiled here today in Manchester, host city the last time the event was held in Britain in 2002.

it as a "powerful statement".Arena have worked with Kukri and Team England athletes to produce the swimming

and dive wear for Glasgow 2014 ©CGEIn addition to Kukri, Arena have designed the swimming and diving

By Paul OsborneThe International University Sports Federation (FISU) is set to conduct another inspection of preparations for Gwangju 2015 ahead of the Summer Universiade there in July 2015.

, followed by visits to the 68 competition and training facilities for the 20 sports, not including swimming