By Tom DegunJanuary 8 - After handing in their Candidature file to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, the Tokyo  bid team for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games personally gave their masterplan to the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) in Bonn.

headed by bid chief executive and Masato Mizuno (pictured top centre) while it also included Paralympic swimming

By Duncan Mackay at the International Olympic Committee in LausanneJanuary 7 - Hasan Arat, the leader of Istanbul's campaign to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, hailed "New Turkey, New Bid" as the city delivered its Candidature file to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) here today.

major events last year, including the World Indoor Athletics Championships and the World Short Course Swimming

By Tom DegunJanuary 7 - Britain's double London 2012 wheelchair racing champion Hannah Cockroft was in attendance at the Youth Sport Trust's sixth National Talent Camp at Loughborough University where more than 90 youngsters from across the country were in attendance.

across ten sports including athletics, badminton, basketball, boccia, football, hockey, rugby union, swimming

By Tom DegunJanuary 7 - Sport England has announced it will be investing £2 million ($3.2 million/€2.5 million) in the English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS) over the next two years in its latest bid to help make sport a practical lifestyle choice for disabled people.

motivate disabled people to participate.The charity is set to prioritise its work with athletics, cycling, swimming

By Tom DegunJanuary 6 - Britain's four-time Paralympic champion Ellie Simmonds has claimed that she already has her sights set on Rio 2016 after proving to be one of the stars at London 2012.

Rio 2016, Simmonds' next major event will be the 2013 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Swimming

The 2013 IPC World Swimming Championships in Canada will see Ellie Simmonds (right) renew her rivalry

By Duncan MackayJanuary 5 - Germany's Olympic discus champion Robert Harting is auctioning off the kit he wore when he won the gold medal at London 2012 to help support Paralympic swimmer Daniela Schulte.

Schulte made her Paralympic debut as a 14-year-old at Atlanta in 1996 only a year after taking up swimming

Hungary's Alfred Hajos, a double swimming gold medallist at Athens 1896, won a silver medal in the architectural

 The best known sports facility designed by Hajós is the swimming stadium built on Margitsziget

By Emily GoddardJanuary 2 - Inas, the International Federation of Sport for Athletes with an Intellectual Disability within the Paralympic Movement, has appointed Briton Nick Parr as its new executive director.

2012, which saw 120 athletes with an intellectual impairment competing across T/F20 athletics, S14 swimming

He now has eight Paralympic medals, five of which are gold, from cycling and swimming

By Philip BarkerThe man who changed the face of world sport forever was born 150 years ago on New Year's day.His name was Pierre de Coubertin  and he was the driving force behind the revival of the Olympic Games. Last summer, London 2012 paid their own tribute by asking his great grand nephew Antoine de Navacelle to carry the Olympic Torch, at the very spot where the 1908 Olympic marathon had finished."It is a fantastic opportunity that I have been given to carry the torch on his behalf " said De Navacelle. "London and Paris are very much concerned with the...

He himself devised a new competition, the modern pentathlon,  riding,fencing, shooting, swimming

By Tom DegunDecember 30 - Paralympic cycling star Dame Sarah Storey claimed she is "speechless but incredibly honoured" at being made a Dame in the Queen's New Year's Honours list.

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

happy to lose Usain Bolt after he emerged as a global superstar at Beijing 2008, nor the International Swimming

By Duncan MackayDecember 27 - Jacqueline Freney, winner of eight Paralympic gold medals at London 2012, is in the running to be immortalised in wax at Madame Tussauds Sydney.

sport.And we have had two major new sporting events announced for disability sport with the 2015 IPC Swimming

By Duncan MackayDecember 26 - Australian Dean Barton-Smith and South African Terence Parkin have been officially appointed as the new interim joint chairmen of the International Committee of Sports for the Deaf (ICSD) Athletes Commission. 

the Olympics and Deaflympics circles and are well-respected for their achievements in athletics and swimming