By Nick ButlerTickets for hockey, netball and rugby sevens, as well as for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, are up for grabs as the Glasgow 2014 ticket-selling process resumed today after nine days of delays. 

gymnastics, shooting, boxing, judo and wrestling.There are currently no tickets available for diving, swimming

By Paul OsborneSports Federations for athletics, weightlifting and bodybuilding, swimming golf and fencing

By Nick ButlerIndependent water quality tests may be conducted by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) to monitor pollution levels in the much maligned Rio 2016 Guanabara Bay venue ahead of a test event due to take place in August.

Games.Sailing is not the only water sport venue facing pollution concerns, with the triathlon and open water swimming

By Paul OsborneYoung, developing Para-swimmers in New Zealand were invited to a Talent Identification Swim Camp over the weekend as Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) continues to promote access to training, competitions and pool-space for aspiring athletes.

Programme to increase the number of people with a significant physical impairment involved in Para-swimming

swimmers were treated to an inspirational talk by Paralympian Mary Fisher, who shared with the group her swimming

following year, Fisher secured five gold medals and a silver at the International Paralympic Committee Swimming

included coaching and advice, pool sessions, classification opportunities, and information on the Para-swimming

at university in Cardiff.After only beginning dedicated training in September 2012, which included swimming

student's nightmare of a timetable awash with 9am lectures, hardly ideal when combined with early morning swimming

By Zjan ShirinianTV Asahi will broadcast the next three International Swimming Federation (FINA) World

By Nick ButlerSpecific details on the three phases of ticket sales due to begin on Wednesday (May 21) have been announced by Glasgow 2014 today, as they bid to avoid the problems which caused the suspension of sales last week.

gymnastics, shooting, boxing, judo and wrestling.There are currently no tickets available for diving, swimming

By Gary AndersonThe American Samoa National Olympic Committee (ASNOC) has elected Brent Young and Milton Taufa'asau to fill the vacant positions of secretary general and treasurer respectively at the General Assembly in Pago Pago.

American Samoan athletes competed at London 2012, including flagbearer Ching Wei, who took part in swimming

By Zjan ShirinianSixty Namibian athletes will compete at the African Youth Games when they get underway this week, a 30-fold increase on the athletes the country sent to the 2010 edition.

country's contingent of athletes will compete in athletics, boxing, cycling, golf, tennis, netball, rugby, swimming

By Gary AndersonThe Rwanda National Olympic Committee (RNOC) has named a squad of 39 athletes for the upcoming African Youth Games in Botswana.

But swimmers have been denied from competing due to the Rwanda Swimming Federation not "fulfilling requirements

".Earlier this month, the Rwandan team Chef de Mission, Elie Manirarora, revealed the swimming and boxing

By Nick ButlerRio 2016 have hit back at critics who claim venues will remain incomplete when the Olympic and Paralympic Games begin in a little over two years' time, by insisting 38 per cent of venues are already completed and there is progress with all the others. 

of the venues on the site only requiring renovation - for shooting, equestrian and modern pentathlon swimming

By Gary AndersonThe Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) has announced the creation of the Randy Starkman Olympian Humanitarian Award in honour of the former sports journalist who died of pneumonia in May 2012.

the Sochi 2014 Parade of Champions on June 6.Starkman became ill after covering the Canadian Olympic swimming

By Zjan ShirinianThe head of the company responsible for the Glasgow 2014 ticketing system that fell apart this week has pledged the sales window will reopen "very soon" as an "urgent review" is carried out - but organisers say it could take "days" to fix the problems.

Tickets for swimming, diving, track cycling, mountain biking and triathlon have sold out since Monday.A

besides the World Cup, also includes the 2014 International Aquatics Federation (FINA) World Short Course Swimming

By Paul OsborneStrong interest has been expressed by nine countries in bidding for the International Swimming

Federation (FINA) World Short Course Swimming Championships and World Aquatics Convention in 2018 and

, Valencia in Spain and New Zealand, who have not announced a city.The 2014 FINA World Short Course Swimming

the presentation of each to the FINA ruling Bureau.The next edition of the FINA World Short Course Swimming

releasedApril 2014: Qatar gets ready for festival of swimmingApril 2012: Doha awarded 2014 World Short Course Swimming