By Emily GoddardSeptember 16 - More than 2.3 million requests have been received for the one million tickets available for next year's Commonwealth Games, Glasgow 2014 revealed as the four-week application window closed today.

applications also means that demand has completely outstripped supply in a number of sports, including swimming

By Gary AndersonSeptember 16 - Russian President Vladimir Putin has today admitted that there are still some "ongoing glitches" in the build-up to next year's Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi and warned that he will "be coming here more often" to ensure preparations remain on track.

women's hockey player and Vancouver 2010 silver medallist Molly Engstrom and Poland's Athens 2004 Olympic swimming

By Emily GoddardSeptember 16 - The Asian Youth Para-Games will be sponsored by KFC Malaysia after the Paralympic Council of Malaysia (PCM) secured a RM132,940 (£25,000/$40,000/€30,000) deal with the fast food brand for next month's event.

in Tokyo in 2009 - to be contested at the Games, with the others being athletics, archery, boccia, swimming

and Iran, while hosts Malaysia will be looking to secure medal in several sports such as athletics, swimming

By Emily GoddardSeptember 16 - Paul DePace, President of the International Wheelchair Amputee and Sports Federation (IWAS), has opened the organisation's fourth World Games in Stadskanaal as athletes gear up for the first day of competitive action tomorrow.

likes of Beijing 2008 long jump silver medallist Atsushi Yamamoto of Japan and Estonian Paralympic swimming

bronze medal winner Kardo Ploomipuu, will compete in athletics, swimming and archery over the five days

are on the horizon including the Rugby World Cup - with three London venues - in 2015, the European Swimming

By Gary AndersonSeptember 15 - Australian Olympic swimmer Faith Leech, who won an individual bronze and team relay gold at Melbourne 1956, passed away yesterday at the age of 72, it has been announced.

freestyle.Not long after she competed in Melbourne, Leech was advised on medical grounds to quit top level swimming

She was a prominent member of the swimming club, and there was great excitement at the time."

local area, as well as establishing a career as a businesswoman.She was heavily involved in promoting swimming

She taught a lot of people swimming."

By Gary AndersonSeptember 13 - Britain's Faye McClelland bagged her fourth International Triathlon Union (ITU) Paratriathlon World Championship gold in London's Hyde Park today, while the home crowds were also treated to wins for Matt Emerson, Melissa Reid, Dave Ellis, Jane Egan and Chris Goodwin.

crossed the line first ahead of former Paralympic swimmer Lauren Steadman in second and Barcelona 1992 swimming

By Emily GoddardSeptember 13 - British Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill has said it is her goal to add a Commonwealth Games gold medal to her collection of accolades as the Glasgow 2014 ambassador urged fans to snap up tickets for next year's event before the Monday (September 16) deadline.

collection of medalsThe demand for tickets has already outstripped supply in athletics, cycling, diving, swimming

suspensions which undermined the efforts of their rivals in Turkey and Spain.The comment of Seoul 1988 Games swimming

gold medallist Daichi Suzuki, now President of the Japanese Swimming Association, that "we don't understand

current alarm over leaking radioactivity, is the contention voiced by Ryosuke Irie, the London 2012 swimming

By Gary AndersonSeptember 11 - Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill has unveiled a giant floating sculpture called "Victor" in the Serpentine at London's Hyde Park to launch the International Triathlon Union (ITU) World Triathlon Grand Final today. 

Hopefully some of them might be inspired afterwards to take up regular running, swimming or cycling or

By Duncan Mackay at The Hilton in Buenos AiresSeptember 10 - America's blossoming new relationship with the Olympic Movement received a double boost here today when Anita DeFrantz was elected to the International Olympic Committee's ruling Executive Board and computer games magnate Larry Probst officially became the country's fourth member.

up to four - the others being the country's former Sports Minister Vitaly Smirnov, four-time Olympic swimming

Committee (IPC) Athlete of the Month award for August after she took seven world titles at the World Swimming

By Nick Butler in Buenos AiresSeptember 9 - A referendum is being held today in Oslo to decide whether the city will bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games while Barcelona has also reiterated its plans to launch a similar bid. 

We also have the experience of Barcelona hosting the World Swimming Championships this summer that showed

By Gary AndersonSeptember 9 - A report by the English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS) has claimed that disabled people are still experiencing barriers to participation in sport and physical activity.

reasons given for taking part in sport being "it is fun", "to keep fit" and "to keep healthy," while swimming

respondents saying that they currently swim.Paralympic champion Ellie Simmonds will be happy to hear that swimming

By Mike RowbottomAs Jacques Rogge steps away from the position as President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which he has held since 2001, there is a certain irony in the circumstances.In 1894, two years before the first of the modern Olympics took place in Athens, the man credited with their instigation, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, was still struggling to kindle public enthusiasm for the idea. He raised the topic once again at the Congress of the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques, at which the bulk of debate centred upon what constituted amateur sport, with one of the...

pictured giving James Magnussen of Australia his gold medal after winning this year's world 100m freestyle swimming