By David GoldSeptember 21 - Brazilian Paralympic swimming star Daniel Dias has been warmly received at

Japan later this year for the Club World Cup, where they could face European champions Chelsea.The swimming

By David GoldSeptember 20 - The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has announced its Paralympic athletes and teams of the year following the London 2012 Games.

Paralympic Games.The award adds to the Disabled Swimmer of the Year accolade Long received in 2011 from Swimming

By Duncan MackaySeptember 20 - A thistle man named Clyde has been unveiled as the official mascot of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Gilmour is herself a swimmer who competes for Cumbernauld Swimming Club."

By Lauren MatteraSeptember 20 - Official International Aquatics Federation (FINA) suppliers Malmsten and the South Korean city of Gwangju have been unveiled as partners of this year's FINA World Aquatics Convention taking place at the end of next month in Moscow.

Swedish swimming specialist Malmsten has 35 years experience in supplying championship pool equipment

such as racing lanes for swimming and open water swimming, water polo field of play markings, water

We love the world of swimming, and partnering with the second FINA Convention allows us to promote Malmsten

FINA is the sole worldwide sports organisation governing five elements of aquatics – swimming, diving

, synchronised swimming, water polo and open water swimming.The FINA World Aquatic Convention is a biannual

By Duncan MackaySeptember 19 - Another major event is heading to Qatar after Doha was today awarded the 2016 World Road Cycling Championships.

joins a growing portfolio of events awarded to the Gulf State, including the FINA World Short Course Swimming

By David GoldSeptember 19 - Officials from the International Triathlon Union (ITU) are stepping up preparations for the sport's Paralympic debut at Rio de Janeiro 2016.

Springman (left) met with Sir Philip Craven at London 2012They also met with officials from athletics, swimming

By Tom DegunSeptember 18 - Double Olympic swimming champion Rebecca Adlington is set to help unveil the

Africa's Sam Ramsamy (pictured) has been elected as the new President of the Confederation of African Swimming

Nairobi.Ramsamy is also a current vice-president of world governing body FINA and is a former President of Swimming

By Tom DegunAfter a hugely successful London 2012 Paralympic Games, the spotlight has turned well and truly on Rio de Janeiro and a high bar has been set for the Brazilian city after International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Sir Philip Craven declared Britain's event the "greatest Paralympics ever".One thing for certain is that Brazil will be staging a very different Games. While Britain is steeped in Paralympic history, the Games having been created in Stoke Mandeville in 1948, Brazil is positioning itself as its future with Rio 2016 set to be the first time the Paralympics have been staged in...

Athletes like him are helping us do well in our traditionally strong sports like athletics and swimming

For example, at the swimming venue, there were more spectators at the Parapan Am Games than there were

By Duncan MackaySeptember 17 - A Peeping Tom who spied on members of China's Olympic women's swimming

By Duncan MackaySeptember 16 - Former Sports Minister Warwick Smith (pictured) is to head the investigation into Australian swimming's disappointing performances at London 2012, it has been announced.

The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) has taken over jurisdiction of the inquiry from Swimming

 The decision was taken after Swimming Australia and the ASC met to discuss plans for the review

six silver medals in what was generally a disappointing performance at London 2012Former swimmers and Swimming

For swimming, this review will be critical in allowing the ASC Board to make an informed decision on

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By Tom DegunSeptember 15 - The 2013 USA Paratriathlon National Championships are set to be contested in Austin, Texas, for the second consecutive year as the sport gears up to make its debut at the Paralympic Games in Rio in 2016.

War.She subsequently became the first Iraq veteran chosen for the Paralympics when she competed in three swimming

By David GoldSeptember 15 - An awareness campaign for the 2013 World Aquatics Championships has begun in Barcelona.

event, Xop (pictured top), which depicts a drop of water resembling a fish, and images of synchronised swimming

appearing across Barcelona to promote the eventThe Catalan capital is hoping to spur renewed interest in swimming

By Duncan MackaySeptember 14 - Brazil's athletes are to receive an additional $500 million (£308 million/€382 million) to help them prepare for Rio 2016, where they will be aiming for a place among the top ten in the medals table at the Olympics and top five at the Paralympics.

The selected Olympic sports are: open water swimming, athletics, basketball, boxing, canoeing, BMX cycling

, women's football, artistic gymnastics, equestrian, judo, wrestling, swimming, modern pentathlon, taekwondo

wheelchair fencing, five-a-side and seven-a-side football, goalball, weight lifting, equestrian, judo, swimming

In 2009, 63 public swimming pools closed and only 28 opened and a report suggested that, without intervention