By Mike RowbottomIf it is indeed true that you are what you eat, then all those who gathered for the Virgin London Marathon's media lunch at La Gavroche last week would have stepped back out into the late afternoon chill of Upper Brook Street better and more cultivated individuals. Who knows, for a few minutes it might even have been the case.The annual conjunction of running and food at the establishment of Michel Roux Jr, who is preparing to run London for an 18th time this year, always brings into consideration the important question of how marathons are best fuelled.

years by a persistent calf injury, but he now has a routine involving less running, rowing in the gym, swimming

has today been confirmed as the host city for this year's International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming

September but a host city was not confirmed at the time.But following negotiations between the IPC and Swimming

major events including the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships, features three outdoor pools but Swimming

We are very excited about Montreal staging the IPC Swimming World Championships as it is a city with

This Championship will give the Canadian public a good taste of elite level para-swimming ahead of the

The last IPC Swimming World Championships took place in August 2010 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands where

By Emily GoddardJanuary 24 - Sport England today announced a further £16.6 million ($26.3 million/€19.7 million) investment into 310 projects to hit its London 2012 legacy target of supporting 1,000 local communities one year ahead of schedule.

Football Club on the Isle of Wight and £50,000 ($79,300/€59,500) to modernise Stamford Community Swimming

champion Victoria Arlen (pictured left) has been named as one of the 16 athletes in the US Paralympics swimming

each other and the renewal of their rivalry at this year's International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming

Paralympic Games, plus increase the number of developmental athletes we identify," said US Paralympics swimming

combined 41 medals at the London 2012 Paralympics, 14 of which were gold, as they finished fourth on the swimming

nbsp;New ruling says USA's Arlen will swim against Britain's SimmondsAugust 2012: US Paralympic swimming

20 - Australian sports administrator Christian Renford has been appointed as chief executive of Swimming

national organisation and called for the entire Board to resign and him to be removed.In the meantime, Swimming

New Zealand has undergone a whole of sport review by an independent panel.The Swimming New Zealand chair

a new constitution, have a new Board, a new chair and a new high performance director and believes swimming

New South Wales, where he had been chief executive for the past four years, and has a background in swimming

It is this skillset that the Board are looking for to take swimming forward across all parts of the operation

By Tom DegunDepending on whether you believe rumours or not, which can always be a dangerous thing at even at the best of times, modern pentathlon is whispered to be one of the sports currently in real danger of being kicked off the Olympic Games sports programme.At this stage, they are one of a number of sports which appear to be in a similarly precarious position as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board prepares to meet to discuss the situation next month.That vital meeting in Lausanne on February 12 and 13 will see the Executive Board discuss which of...

the venue would mean that in five hours, spectators could watch all five disciplines starting with swimming

By Duncan MackayJanuary 15 - Modern pentathlon, the only sport speficially designed for the Olympics, is proposing a revolutionary new concept for Rio 2016 that would see all five events staged in the same arena. 

International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM), spectators would be able to watch the five sports, starting with swimming

what was once a five-day test of strength, skill and endurance via running,  shooting, fencing, swimming

with more than 2,500 young Colombian athletes competing in athletics, basketball, baseball, football, swimming

By James CrookJanuary 11 - Tokyo 2020 bid ambassador and Japanese Paralympic swimming gold medallist

Emily GoddardJanuary 10 - Tom Daley's mother has come out to defend her Olympic diver son after British Swimming

metre platform bronze medal helped Sparkes keep his job in the wake of the less than positive British Swimming

distraction to his training "As far as I'm aware, Tom was one of the few major success stories for British Swimming

But with the two largest summer sports - athletics and swimming - hosting World Championship events this

Australian swimming sensation Jacqueline Freney will prove London 2012 was no flukeFreney topped the

That will change this year when Freney has another dominating performance at the Swimming World Championships

will host this summer's World Athletics Championships, and the 2018 World Cup finals, the forthcoming swimming

By Tom DegunJanuary 9 - Toronto 2015 have announced a $20 million (£13 million/€16 million) upgrade to the Etobicoke Olympium, a major community aquatics centre in the city that will be used as a training venue for the Pan and Parapan Am Games.

Hundreds of athletes involved in the aquatic disciplines of swimming, water polo, diving and synchronised

swimming are set to use the Etobicoke Olympium, which is located in Centennial Park.The project, jointly

For almost 40 years, the Olympium has nurtured community and competitive-level swimming and diving programmes

system will be installed and the facility's existing dive towers will be upgraded to meet International Swimming

By Tom DegunJanuary 9 - Dame Sarah Storey has revealed that she is looking to make a quick comeback to competitive cycling following the birth of her first child later this year.

two Paralympic cycling gold medals at Beijing 2008 and 16 Paralympic medals in her former sport of swimming