drugs, as well as flouting of curfews and bullying, were allowed to go unpunished among the Australian swimming

accountabilities for the swim team at the London Olympics were too loose," said the report commissioned by Swimming

and were without an individual gold medalist for the first time since Montreal in 1976.An Independent Swimming

winning gold medals, we want to win back the admiration of the nation, and we want to engage with our swimming

Committee (AOC) just before the Games.AOC Pesident John Coates said he was awaiting with interest a Swimming

he said in a statement.The Bluestone report claimed that the problems had existed within Australian Swimming

By Duncan MackayFebruary 19 - A row has broken out in the run-up to the elections to elect a new President of the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) after allegations that a commission is trying to influence the result. 

Young-chae, President of the Korea Women's Sports Association and vice-president of the Korea Swimming

By Tom DegunFebruary 19 - The Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) appear to have become more marketable following London 2012 with new research suggesting that three out of four people in the country believe companies will become more appealing if they sponsor the organisation and the country's top disabled athletes.

Paralympians are powerful role models.Hellwig, who was also Australia's Chef de Mission at London 2012, said swimming

2012 Paralympic Games as she stormed to eight gold medals Australia finished second on the Paralympic swimming

By Emily GoddardFebruary 16 - The Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games has a major role to play in growing the Paralympic Movement in the Americas, according to President of the Americas Paralympic Committee (APC) Octavio Londoño.

Canada has a major role to play hosting a number of major Parasport events starting with August's IPC Swimming

GoddardFebruary 16 - Two-time Paralympic champion Graham Edmunds has been elected onto the British Swimming

metres freestyle relay at both the Athens and Beijing Games.Edmunds recently retired from competitive swimming

I have got a lot out of swimming in the past 21 years and now I want to put something back," he said.

believed that he would never walk again.He spent three months with his legs in casts before beginning swimming

Through my previous role at the Swimming Competitors Association and then taking part in the Heroes Tour

Redgrave, Gareth Edwards and  Denise Lewis - were Ambassadors David Roberts, with 11 Paralympic swimming

Dame Kelly Holmes leads the session at Warwick University, assisted by multiple Paralympic swimming gold

medallist David Roberts (left) and six-times world swimming champion Mark Foster "It was great to talk

champion canoeist, Sophie Pyatt will be partnered by Adam Whitehead,  European and Commonwealth swimming

By James CrookFebruary 15 - Paralympic swimmer Sophie Pascoe has been named the Disabled Sportsperson of the Year at New Zealand's Halberg Awards today following her six-medal haul at London 2012 last summer.

losing the lower part of her left leg in a lawnmower accident when she was two-years-old, Pascoe took up swimming

By Tom DegunFebruary 13 - Qatar's National Sport Day has been hailed a huge success after thousands of men, women, children and persons with disabilities celebrated the event across the country.

Al-Thani, secretary general of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) and Australia's five-time Olympic swimming

By Mike RowbottomFebruary 13 - Jody Cundy is recovering from minor injuries after becoming the latest high profile Olympic/Paralympic cyclist to suffer a collision with a vehicle on the roads, saying he was "lucky to walk away" from the accident.

adding further Paralympic gold at the London 2012 Games to the ones he had previously won in Paralympic swimming

By Tom DegunFebruary 13 - Swimming Australia have announced the appointment of three-time Olympian Adam

Pine has been at Swimming Australia for almost seven years where he has held various senior roles including

nations.At the London 2012 Paralympics Australia finished second on the swimming medal table behind

I feel this role is a perfect fit for me with my years of experience in high performance swimming as

an athlete and my grassroots experience managing the community sport and inclusive swimming programmes

Australian Paralympic swimming is critical to the success of the wider Australian Paralympic team which

19th century cavalry rider behind enemy lines: riding an unfamiliar horse, using a pistol and sword, swimming

Only the swimming and running are wholly physical."

By Emily GoddardFebruary 11 - American swimmer Bradley Snyder has been awarded the United States Sports Academy's 2012 Juan Antonio Samaranch Disabled Athlete Award after becoming a double Paralympic champion at London 2012.

was the Team US flag bearer for the Paralympic Closing Ceremony, also holds several world records in swimming

anniversary of his injury.As well as his success at the Paralympics, Snyder won four gold medals in swimming

track and field events at the Warrior Games in Colorado Springs last May, while at the US Paralympics swimming

By Duncan MackayFebruary 10 - Natalie du Toit, one of the greatest Paralympic competitors in history, has been appointed to the new Board of directors at the South African Institute for Drug Free Sport (SAIDS).

The 29-year-old from Cape Town retired from competitive swimming after London 2012 having won 13 gold

athletics, gymnastics,combative sports (boxing fencing, shooting (sic), wrestling), aquatic sports (rowing, swimming

Swimming and diving became synchronised and hockey, football and others introduced women's competitions

By Duncan MackayFebruary 9 - Tim Hollingsworth, chief executive of the British Paralympic Association (BPA), has hailed the decision to award Channel 4 the broadcasting rights to Sochi 2014 and Rio 2016 in a £7 million ($11 million/€8 million) deal.

commitment to broadcast other major IPC events, like the World Athletics Championships in Lyon and the World Swimming