By Tom DegunOctober 11 - Former Gold Coast Mayor Ron Clarke, who played a key role in helping the city secure the 2018 Commonwealth Games, claims he is concerned that the event will be mostly staged in nearby Brisbane, the capital of Queensland.

If the swimming goes to Brisbane it's virtually the ruin of the Games."

Loughborough Intensive Training Centre (ITC) following the departure of head coach Ben Titley, British Swimming

has a strong track record based on his great work ethic and unrivalled passion for the job," British Swimming

By Tom DegunOctober 9 - Britain's Paralympic swimming star Ellie Simmonds received a huge reception in

day saw the 17-year-old visit her gold postbox on Aldridge High Street, as well as officially open a swimming

question and answer session with invited schools and youngsters.Thousands turned out to see Paralympic swimming

By Tom DegunOctober 9 - Glasgow 2014 chief executive David Grevemberg has claimed that a separate Para-Commonwealth Games for the world's top disability athletes is a long-term possibility but admitted it is not something he thinks will happen in the near future.

history of the Games – with 22 medal competitions set to take place across the five sports of athletics, swimming

By David OwenOctober 7 - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has vowed to tighten up testing procedures after a number of competitors at the recent 2012 Olympic Games in London missed blood test appointments without incurring sanctions.

in behaviour, such as recourse to doping.The six sports were understood at the time to be athletics, swimming

By Tom DegunOctober 7 – Toronto 2015 have unveiled their plans to host the largest ever Parapan Am Games with an estimated 1,500 athletes set to compete in 15 sports including, for the first time in the history of the event, wheelchair rugby.

boccia, cycling (road and track), football, 5-a-side, goalball, judo, powerlifting, sitting volleyball, swimming

By Mike RowbottomOctober 5 - Cogne, in Italy, will host next year's Winter Triathlon World Championships, on February 22-24, which will be the first of seven multisport world championships in seven countries across varied distances and disciplines.

30km run, approximately three times the Olympic triathlon distance.Cross triathlon, which consists of swimming

By Mike RowbottomMy friend Russell was one of the 70,000 whose efforts as Games Makers helped the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics run as smoothly as in a happy dream. His task was to oversee a part of the cycling course for the road racing and time trial events, which meant that, as a long-time cycling enthusiast, he had the opportunity to watch some of his heroes and heroines whizzing past while, of course, making 100 per cent sure that all was in order roadside.Russell's Olympic journey was probably typical of that made by many of his fellow volunteers, and...

But talking to other volunteers who were working in the swimming, I understood much more that they had

By Tom DegunOctober 4 - Hasan Arat, the chairman of the Istanbul 2020 bid team, says that recent figures showing a huge rise in the number of foreign visitors to Turkey could give the city with a strong chance of hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games for the first time ever.

Finals this month, the Intercontinental Istanbul Eurasia Marathon next month and the 11th FINA World Swimming

By Tom DegunOctober 4 - Brendan Keogh has stepped down as Paralympic head coach of Swimming Australia

gold medals, seven silver and 12 bronze for a total medal haul of 37 medals to finish second on the swimming

golds, making him the most successful Australian Paralympian ever.Keogh, who first got into Paralympic swimming

I would like to thank all the athletes, coaches, officials and the Swimming Australia family for their

Swimming Australia President David Urquhart said Keogh will leave a lasting legacy in the role and his

His skills, knowledge and commitment to Paralympic swimming will be missed, but we wish him well in his

By Tom DegunOctober 3 - American teenage swimming star Victoria Arlen, the great rival of Britain's Ellie

By Tom DegunOctober 2 - Ricardo Prado, the former Brazilian swimmer and Olympic silver medallist, has been named President of the Sports Advisory Committee for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

We also end up learning about other areas' needs".Brazil's six-time Paralympic swimming champion Daniel

By David GoldOctober 2 - The International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Cup got underway in Dubai

Emirates, ready to compete at the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Sports Complex, which hosted the 2010 Swimming

South African is also a double Commonwealth Games champion and was the overall winner of last year's Swimming

By Tom DegunOctober 2 - Construction has begun on the Aquatics Centre and Field House for the Toronto 2015 Pan and Parapan American Games in what is the largest venue construction project for the event.

$205 million (£127 million/€159 million) with the 6,000 capacity Aquatics Centre set to host diving, swimming

, synchronised swimming and the swimming in the modern pentathlon, while the 2,000 capacity Field House

By Tom DegunOctober 2 - Ellie Simmonds, Britain's four-time Paralympic swimming champion, has made a