By Gary AndersonMarch 5 - Swimming Australia President John Bertrand has challenged his country's swimmers

sport in the country following a turbulent 18 months since London 2012 will help it become the top swimming

By 2020, and this is the big vision, we aim to be the No. 1 swimming nation in the world, from the Olympic

To the extent that, the Americans benchmark Swimming Australia as world best practice."

golds at London 2012 ©AFP/Getty ImagesAs a result of the debacle at London 2012, Swimming Australia

hero as PresidentOctober 2013: Swimming Australia going Dutch with new head coachJune 2013: Swimming

By Gary AndersonMarch 2 - Host cities for a series of Junior World Championship events in 2015 and 2016, as well as the destinations for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games water polo qualification tournaments, have been announced today by the International Aquatics Federation (FINA). 

Championships and World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships, all due to take place in 2016.This

year's diving Championships will be held in Penza, Russia, from September 9 to 14, with the synchronised swimming

Israel will host the second ever open water event, from August 28 to 30.The World Junior Open Water Swimming

2015 and 2016 events have yet to be finalised.The news will come as a further boost to the Mexican Swimming

2015 ChampionshipsJuly 2011: Another major event heading to Russia as Kazan chosen to host 2015 World Swimming

By Mike RowbottomThe day after he has returned to France from the Sochi Winter Games, I ask Joël Bouzou - four times an Olympian in the modern pentathlon, and now President both of the World Olympians Association (WOA) and the global Peace and Sport initiative he founded in 2007 - what he would like the Olympics to look like in 30 years' time.The response, as with all others from this idealistic and yet practical man, is considered and cogent."I would like to see the leaders of all the countries at the Opening Ceremony," he says. "I would like them to...

, there are a lot of things to be done with traditional boats, and maybe it is not worth to work in swimming

By Zjan ShirinianMarch 1 - Bomb threats have forced the cancellation of two events at the Russian Open Games - a festival for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community - hours after a smoke bomb was set off.

Games, shows the venue in Moscow being evacuated.Following's yesterday's incident, today's planned swimming

By Zjan ShirinianFebruary 28 - Extreme heat has forced organisers to halt the women's modern pentathlon final at the World Cup Series opener in Mexico.

priority amid the sweltering conditions in the resort of Acapulco.The fencing and 200 metres freestyle swimming

swimmer Ron McKeon has been announced as the new national open water coach and performance manager by Swimming

An experienced high performance coach, McKeon has worked for more than 30 years across swimming and life

Wollongong where he still acts as director and head coach.Until recently, McKeon was the Australian Swimming

With Ron's knowledge of elite performance and his credibility within Australian swimming, he's the ideal

strong surf lifesaving culture, to realise that open water swimming is in our DNA and an event we can

Swimming head as new performance director

By Paul Osborne at the London Aquatics Centre in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic ParkFebruary 25 - The newly adapted London Aquatics Centre will open its doors to the public this week, giving people the chance to swim in the same pool as the stars of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

, diving, synchronised swimming and modern pentathlon.Eighteen months on and the Centre has been adapted

, with the training pool next door accommodating family and fun sessions, swimming lessons and the new

It will be a place of fun and fitness, as well as competitive swimming."

In addition to community swimming, the Aquatics Centre will also play host to a number of national and

international events, including a leg of the International Swimming Federation's (FINA) World Diving

By Gary AndersonFebruary 24 - Paralympic and world champions Jason Smyth and Michael McKillop are among 45 athletes named as part of the Paralympics Ireland athlete panel for 2014.

Scully and Jonathan McGrath along with McDonald will be hoping to make the grade at the IPC European Swimming

By Gary AndersonFebruary 24 - Despite being allocated 32 spots for Para-sport events at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, Kenya will send only 20 athletes to the Scottish city because 12 were not officially classified by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

shooting having no representation at all during the Games, while a number of spots in athletics and swimming

As the international federation for Para-athletics, powerlifting, Para-swimming and shooting Para-sport

By Emily GoddardFebruary 22 - Dato Zainal Abu Zarin, President of the Asian Paralympic Committee (APC), has spoken of the "great and encouraging progress" made by Incheon 2014 ahead of this year's Asian Para Games.

is expected to attract 5,000 athletes and officials to compete across 23 sports, namely athletics, swimming

By Gary AndersonFebruary 21 - EventScotland has been announced as a Silver Partner for the 12th SportAccord International Convention taking place in Belek/Antalya, Turkey, from April 6 to 11.

will host the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming

yearJune 2013: Glasgow awarded 2015 European Judo ChampionshipsDecember 2012: Glasgow to stage 2015 IPC Swimming

By Paul OsborneFebruary 21 - Goalball UK has announced that it will appeal UK Sport's decision to withdraw the funding for the women's goalball team following its Annual Investment Review earlier this month.

of seven sports to lose its entire Olympic funding, alongside basketball, water polo, synchronised swimming

another which springs to mind is Alexander Dale Oen's win over 100m breaststroke at the 2011 World Swimming

By Nick Butler at Dostoevsky Hall at the Main Media Centre in SochiFebruary 20 - Almaty city representative Andrey Kryukov has described how hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics would be a way for Kazakhstan to show the world the "huge progress" it has made.

Kryukov, an Executive Board member of the Kazakh Olympic Committee and member of the International Swimming

By Gary AndersonFebruary 19 - Twelve-times Paralympic swimming champion Jessica Long is to be the subject