been much innovation since the Ancient Olympics ©Getty ImagesPerhaps the best example of this lies in swimming

and lightweight style" merited a ban from beaches for being "too revealing" it was lapped up by the swimming

McClaren and Ferrari go head to head in a technical as much as a competitive battle, as well as in swimming

GoddardNovember 15 - More tickets for the 2013 Duel in the Pool, set to take place at the Tollcross International Swimming

ButlerNovember 14 - Michael Phelps has fuelled rumours he is considering a comeback to competitive swimming

enjoying other activities since announcing his retirement after London 2012 ©Getty ImagesThe International Swimming

   This will delight spectators as well as swimming officials keen to profit on the publicity

"I just think he's in a place where he's feeling good about swimming,'' he said."

By Nick ButlerNovember 14 - Nominations for the next round of inductions into the Paralympic Hall of Fame, due to take place during the Winter Games in Sochi next March, have been opened.

Australia's nine-time Paralympic champion wheelchair-racer Louise Sauvage.Britain's 15-time Paralympic swimming

was someone who won 16 gold medals across the three sports of athletics, wheelchair fencing and swimming

By Nick Butler at the Rolex Learning Centre in LausanneNovember 13 - Jean-Marie Ayer, secretary general of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF), has admitted here the survival of taekwondo's Olympic status was dependent on the sport's successful embracing of new technologies introduced in the aftermath of Beijing 2008.

not to say that Olympic sports are not affected to a large degree.Masson highlighted the example of swimming

By Emily GoddardNovember 13 - Heather Frederiksen, the British Paralympic swimmer who won gold at both Beijing 2008 and London 2012, has retired from competitive action after announcing that she is expecting her first child.

It was a really tough decision to make because I love swimming and it has given me so much but I haven't

I have so many good memories from swimming including winning my first Paralympic gold medal in a world

I want to thank everyone at British Swimming and especially Mark Rose who has supported me throughout

Heather has enjoyed a hugely successful swimming career and I want to congratulate her on all she has

On behalf of everyone at British Para-Swimming I want to wish her luck and best wishes for the future

By Gary AndersonNovember 12 - A  $70 million (£42 million/€50 million) sport legacy fund plan has been announced by Toronto 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games organisers which will see the operating and capital maintenance costs of three of the main venues secured for a minimum of 20 years.

Canada (WBC) will locate its National Academy there.The venue, which will have two 10-lane 50 metre swimming

training facilities, will also host high-performance teams and training programmes from Diving Canada, Swimming

By Paul OsborneNovember 12 - The number of swimmers who will receive funding from UK Sport through the World Class Performance Programme has been reduced by over a third from those supported in the build up to London 2012.

The news comes after British Swimming announced their Podium and Potential Podium squad for 2014, an

and competition opportunities, science and medicine services, as well as the support of the British Swimming

in the pool at the London 2012 OlympicsBritish Swimming National Performance Director Chris Spice said

to British Swimming, investment figures will be confirmed by no later than February 2014.Contact the

to Rio 2016December 2012: British Swimming chief has "healthy debate" with Adlington

This concerned the most unfortunate of mishaps experienced by the American swimming star Ryan Lochte.On

to practise your craft and instead be confined to such menial training methods as aqua-jogging in a swimming

By Gary AndersonNovember 10 - The final event of the 2013 Caixa Loterias Athletics and Swimming Circuit

The meeting in Fortaleza saw around 500 Paralympic swimming and track and field athletes competing for

medals at the Náutico Atlético Cearense swimming pool and on the track at the University of Fortaleza

competed at this year's International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics World Championships and Swimming

The 2014 Caixa Loterias Circuit is set to play an even more important role for Brazil's swimming

By Nick ButlerNovember 8 - This year's World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona were the most watched in the history of the event and reached a total worldwide television audience of almost 4.5 billion viewers, new figures published today revealed. 

to an independent report, made by the company Kantar Media and released today by the International Swimming

in 185 territories.With six gold medals in Barcelona, Missy Franklin was one of a new generation of swimming

collectively won 10 gold medals, as well as stars from the other sports on show in diving, open-water swimming

, synchronised-swimming and water-polo.

By Paul OsborneNovember 7 - Olympic sports should comprise more than half the events at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games according to Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) honorary secretary Datuk Sieh Kok Chi.

said traditional Olympic sports, which Malaysia have dominated in previous years, such as synchronised swimming

Track cycling can go to its maximum and we also want synchronised swimming and water skiing back."

By Nick ButlerNovember 6 - A 12 month long process was launched today to decide which sports, and which disciplines, are included on the programme for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

nbsp;400 athletes from 23 countries competed in eight sports - archery, athletics, dartchery, snooker, swimming

By Paul Osborne November 4 - China's Olympic gold medallist Sun Yang could face up to 15 days in detention after he was caught driving without a licence yesterday.

London 2012 in the 400 metres and 1500m freestyle, making him the first Chinese man to win an Olympic swimming

unveil pebble as official mascotJuly 2012: Agnel inspires France 4x100m freestyle team to thrilling swimming

By Gary AndersonNovember 4 - A total of 92 per cent of tickets available to the general public for next year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow have been sold with the remaining 76,000 going on sale tomorrow Tuesday at 10am GMT on a first-come, first-served basis, it was announced today. 

sold through the various Commonwealth Games Associations (CGA).Glasgow 2014 organisers claim that the swimming

events at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre could have been sold-out ten times over Organisers