By Emily GoddardOctober 8 - The International Boxing Association (AIBA) World Academy in the Kazakhstani town of Talgar will be officially opened on October 24, boxing's world governing body announced today.

performance"As well as an "über-modern gym and boxing halls", the building will feature 10 training rings, a 25m swimming

By Gary AndersonOctober 7 - The 10 new team leaders that will work with ParalympicsGB athletes and officials in the build up to and during Rio 2016 have attended their first Team Induction Programme event today.

powerlifting; Louise Kingsley, rowing; Stephen Park, sailing; Pasan Kularatne, shooting; Chris Furber, swimming

By Nick ButlerOctober 7 - The Russian leg of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay has opened in a whirl of colour, enthusiasm, and famous participants in Moscow, as well as the occasional unintentional extinguishing of the Flame.

Cathedral.It was then passed to two of Russia's greatest ever female Olympians in the five-time synchronised swimming

on Sunday when the Flame went out when being carried through the Kremlin's main Gates by the former swimming

By Duncan MackayOctober 7 - A Spanish court has today fined the architect of the biggest fraud in Paralympic history €5,400 (£3,384/$7,766) for his part in a scandal which saw the country's basketball players stripped of the gold medal they won at Sydney 2000 after they pretended to be intellectually disabled when they were not. 

Carlos Ribagorda, a member of the team, claimed that he and several other competitors in athletics, swimming

By Nick Butler in AthensOctober 6 - The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Torch Relay will kick off its four month journey on Russian soil alongside the "White Stick" international charity music festival in Moscow tomorrow when it tours around many of the city's most famous landmarks.

Torchbearers include almost a dozen former Olympic and Paralympic champions, including five-time synchronised swimming

By Nick ButlerOctober 3 - Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo was among those present today to mark the opening of the Brazilian Shooting Open Championships in Rio de Janeiro, a major event in the build-up to the 2016 Paralympics in the city. 

including 21 gold at London 2012, but enjoyed most of their success in sports such as athletics and swimming

By Paul OsborneOctober 3 - Young swimmers in Australia have been given the opportunity to hone their skills in a "Road to Rio" development camp in preparation for the 2016 Paralympic Games.

bolster Australia's hold on Paralympic swimming's number one spot.Paralympic Performance Manager at Swimming

Foundation Australian Age Multi-Class Championships,Kate Wilson.Wilson also impressed at the Australian Swimming

By Gary AndersonOctober 1 - Olympic gold medallists and 2013 world champions Missy Franklin, Katie Ledecky and Ryan Lochte are the leading contenders in the race to be crowned female and male athletes of the year at the Golden Goggle Awards next month.

Four-time Olympic champion Franklin, who won a record six gold medals at this year's International Swimming

Marriot LA Live Hotel in Los Angeles on November 24, goes back into supporting the work of the USA Swimming

By Duncan MackaySeptember 30 - Fans who applied to buy tickets for next year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow were today beginning to find out whether or not they had been successful.

the 100 metres men's final at Hampden Park.Other sports which were oversubscribed included diving, swimming

By Gary AndersonSeptember 30 - Five-time Olympic alpine skiing medallist Bode Miller was on hand to help launch US Paralympics' new talent identification programme, Gateway to Gold, that aims to introduce people with disabilities to sport and identify future champions.

Louis on November 9, with a boccia event taking place in Atlanta on the same day.November 17 will see a swimming

metres freestyle S10 and 50 metres butterfly S10 world records during the New Zealand Short Course Swimming

Sophie Pascoe took three gold and three silver medals at London 2012Five world titles at the World Swimming

says IPC chief August 2013: Pascoe and Fisher set to lead New Zealand medal charge at IPC World Swimming

Championships May 2013: Pascoe heads seven-strong New Zealand team for IPC World Swimming ChampionshipsMarch

Following her successful appeal, it was announced Arlen was able to partake in the S6 400 metres swimming

By Duncan MackaySeptember 27 - Portugal's Paulo Frischknecht has been appointed as the new executive director of LEN, the European governing body for aquatic sports, it was announced today at the organisation's Congress in Edinburgh.

 He is the President of the Portuguese Swimming Federation and was elected to the FINA Bureau in

[email protected] storiesSeptember 2013: Edinburgh to host inaugural European swimming

LEN executive director Szakadati resigns after ten yearsOctober 2012: Barelli elected European Swimming

By Gary AndersonSeptember 27 - The second annual GO Swim Month run by Swimming Australia is set to get

GO Swim Month encourages children to get involved in swimming by promoting the skills they will learn

, and fun that they will have as part of a swim club, and last year saw almost 100 swimming centres across

Cameron McEvoy and London 2012 Olympic relay gold medal winner Brittany Elmslie, who will be visiting swimming

medallist Emily Seebohm is backing Go Swim Month in Australia "Some of my fondest memories in swimming

I will be heading out to Redlands Swimming Club on Saturday October 5 and I know that many of the team

By James CrookSeptember 27- Officials at Loch Lomond Shores have launched a bid to take over from the algae-ridden Strathclyde Park as hosts of next year's Commonwealth Games triathlon event.

Herald.Blue-green algae such as this has caused major concerns over the safety of Strathclyde Park for swimming