By Nick Butler at The Hilton in Buenos AiresSeptember 8 - The Organising Committees of both the Nanjing 2014 and the Lillehammer 2016 Youth Olympic Games have claimed they are well set to achieve their respective aims of a great and well organised events, accomplishing both sporting and cultural achievements.

Competition launched to "make Olympic history" and design medals for Nanjing 2014August 2013: London 2012 swimming

By Nick Butler at The Hilton in Buenos AiresSeptember 7 - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has added its congratulations to Tokyo after the Japanese city won the race here to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

athletes from 21 countries competing in nine sports.These were archery, athletics, dartchery, snooker, swimming

part of Tokyo's 2020 bid.This included the presence here in the final stages of campaigning process of swimming

By Emily GoddardSeptember 6 - Glasgow 2014 is urging potential spectators of next year's Commonwealth Games to snap up tickets as soon as possible as some sports events, including diving, track cycling and triathlon, are already "substantially" oversubscribed.

by Glasgow 2014 shows that as well as diving, track cycling and triathlon, artistic gymnastics and swimming

By James CrookSeptember 6 - British Swimming will host the first European Swimming League (LEN) Congress

delegates will hear how the European governing body is progressing under its new leadership, whilst British Swimming

Edinburgh, Scotland where the leaders from around Europe will gather to work through the strategic needs of swimming

in Europe," said David Sparkes, chief executive of British Swimming."

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By James CrookSeptember 5 - Work on the Paralympic Training Centre in São Paulo will get underway next week after the contract for its construction was signed last month.

Among the sports due to be based there athletics, wheelchair basketball, boccia, swimming, wheelchair

By Nick Butler at the Sheraton Hotel in Buenos AiresSeptember 5 - With a vast array of medal winning athletes conveying a message focusing upon the harmonising power of sport in society, Tokyo offered a riposte to its critics as it showed that all is certainly not lost in its attempt to host the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

was a message evoked further by the Seoul 1988 Olympic champion and current President of the Japanese Swimming

people together was the definitive message put forward.This was best illustrated by the London 2012 swimming

By Emily GoddardSeptember 3 - Double Olympic rowing gold medallist Andrew Triggs Hodge has been named today as one of five new appointments to the UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) Athlete Committee.

drug cheats April 2012: UK Anti-Doping to share blood information on athletes with international swimming

By Gary AndersonSeptember 3 - Three more British stars - David Weir, Sophie Christiansen and Oliver Hynd - will appear at the National Paralympic Day celebrations on September 7 as the athletes were today added to the line-up for the event.

Davies, table tennis silver and bronze medallists Will Bayley and Aaron McKibbin, newly-crowned swimming

By Nick ButlerSeptember 2 - Young fans and designers across the world have been provided with an opportunity to "make Olympic history" after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced the launch of a competition seeking medal designs for the Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games.

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By Nick Butler at The Hilton in Buenos AiresAugust 31 - Argentinian football superstar Lionel Messi "felt he ought not to support Madrid 2020", President of the Spanish Olympic Committee Alejandro Blanco has admitted here, as tension between the three cities bidding to host the Games continues to build a week ahead of the decision being made.

profile of the bids are still continuing elsewhere and in Tokyo this included a series of running, swimming

By Emily GoddardAugust 30 - Chad Le Clos, the South African swimmer who won Olympic gold at London 2012, has been unveiled as the latest ambassador for the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympics.

By James CrookAugust 30 - Swimming Australia have announced the appointment of two-time Olympic sailor

I am honoured to have been selected to preside over Swimming Australia," Bertrand said on his appointment

Swimming has a proud history in this country and a reputation for hard work, humility and success."

across sport and business would be an asset to Swimming Australia moving forward."

A much-improved performance at the 2013 FINA World Championships has proven encouraging for Swimming

We will work together and with all our key stakeholders to ensure swimming in Australia is once again

By Gary AndersonAugust 28 - The first day of the International Canoe Federation (ICF) Sprint World Championships in Duisberg saw Great Britain claim six medals in total with Jeanette Chippington bagging three golds equalling her haul from last year's event.

," said Chippington, who made the switch from swimming to canoeing in 2011 and had already bagged six

By James CrookAugust 28 - British Swimming have appointed former British Gymnastics official Tim Jones

the underwhelming two bronze medals and one silver that Britain mustered at the Aquatics Centre in swimming

I'm delighted to be joining British Swimming and I believe I can make a positive contribution to the

Francesca Halsall won Britain's solitary swimming medal at last month's World Championships; a bronze

confident we will now be able to drive forward the changes necessary for elite swimming from top to

: Embattled British Swimming announce interim leadership appointments 

By Gary AndersonAugust 27 - Hungary claimed its first gold medal of this year's Modern Pentathlon World Championships in Kaohsiung on the final day of action finishing just 30 points ahead of China in the men's three-member team relay competition with Russia coming in third.

event to storm through the field and take top spot.The Hungarians performed solidly in the fencing and swimming