By Stuart NewmanAugust 15 - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced the names of its nine-strong commentary team who will talk viewers through more than 780 hours of live sport available on its website during the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

Worldwide IT Partner, Atos.The player uses innovative technology that will enable those watching live swimming

By Stuart NewmanAugust 15 - As the curtain fell on the London 2012 Olympics, hundreds of fans turned out at Britain's major airports and rail stations to wave goodbye to the heroes and heroines of the Games as they prepared to head home.

cycling road race, and France's Camille Muffat, who clinched victory in the women's 400 metres freestyle swimming

along with a silver and bronze medal.French swimming star Camille Muffat displays her medals before

By David GoldAugust 15 - The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) has announced the names of 145 athletes that will represent the nation at the London 2012 Paralympics.

Walker-Young, a former Paralympian who has six medals in swimming, added: "As a Paralympian, I'm honoured

By David Gold at Club France in LondonAugust 15 - French Guiana has unveiled a project it hopes will encourage leading athletes and nations to base themselves in the region prior to the 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympics in neighbouring Brazil.

Olympic GamesThere is also an international standard athletics track in Rémire-Montjoly, a 10 lane swimming

By David Gold at UK Sport headquarters in LondonAugust 14 - UK Sport chair Baroness Sue Campbell has hailed Britain's superb performance at London 2012 but said that they now faced the challenge of transferring a "unique" moment for sport in the country into "a future vision", as they aim to improve on their medal haul for the Rio 2016 Olympics.

medals which, at 17, was significantly more than the 12 that picked up top-three results at Beijing 2008.Swimming

By Stuart NewmanAugust 15 - Cyclist Jody Cundy will be going the extra mile compared to those fans who have had their faces painted to show their support at London 2012 – his new prosthetic leg has been specially decorated for the forthcoming Paralympics.

33-year-old, a five-times Paralympic gold medallist and multiple world champion at both cycling and swimming

By David GoldAugust 9 - Michael Phelps leads the United States Sports Academy nominees for July's athlete of the month award after making history at the Olympics.

Ye smashes world recordJuly 2012: Phelps targeting only seven gold medals at London 2012 as US swimming

By David GoldAugust 7 - Daphne Hilton has donated some of her 14 Paralympic medals to the Australian Paralympic Committee's (APC) collection of memorabilia.

three Games she competed at, remarkably doing so in five different sports; archery, athletics, fencing, swimming

many to be too elitist to be worthy of a place in the Olympics alongside the likes of synchronised swimming

"To play for a gold medal alongside the swimming greats and gymnastic greats is the biggest prize there

Olympian in history brought down the curtain on his uniquely glittering career, and the London 2012 swimming

Swimming the third leg for the United States in the 4x100 metres medley relay – an event they have never

In the other event in an extraordinary night's swimming, Ranomi Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands completed

[email protected] storiesAugust 2012: Teenager trounces stars to claim 800m freestyle swimming

By Andrew Warshaw at Bayt Qatar in LondonAugust 4 - The head of the Qatar Olympic Committee and the man who led their failed bid for the 2020 Games promised that they will never give up trying to put on the greatest sporting show on earth.

announced today will be American sprint legend Carl Lewis, his compatriot multiple Olympic gold medal swimming

By Tom Degun at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonAugust 4 - Britain's teenage diving star Tom Daley now has over one million Twitter followers after his fourth-place finish in the 10-metre synchronised diving competition at the Aquatics Centre on the Olympic Park this week saw him embroiled in a controversial episode on the social media platform.

behind American gymnast Jordyn Wieber, who has won gold at London 2012, and one place ahead of American swimming

By Andrew Warshaw at the Aquatics Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonAugust 3 - A new American swimming

when that all that changed in the shape of defending champion Rebecca Adlington.The darling of British swimming

emotions after taking bronze in the 800m freestyleIf Adlington, who ended Britain's long drought in swimming

Swimming is so, so difficult and I hope people are proud of me for getting that bronze."

dejection as much as elation.Just to rub salt in the wounds of the host nation, at least as far as swimming

By Andrew Warshaw at the Aquatics Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonAugust 2 - Like a man on a mission, Michael Phelps thrillingly gained revenge over his American compatriot, Ryan Lochte, tonight to strike gold in the Olympic 200 metres individual medley and make more history – this time as the first male swimmer to win the same event at three successive Games.

record with 19th medal of careerJuly 2012: Agnel inspires France 4x100m freestyle team to thrilling swimming

Ye smashes world recordJuly 2012: Phelps targeting only seven gold medals at London 2012 as US swimming

By David GoldAugust 1 - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) website is to feature a new video player for the London 2012 Paralympics, integrating live footage and results.

the first of its kind, and the IPC say it will revolutionise online streaming.Only two sports – the swimming

thirst for information, and during London 2012 we aim to quench that thirst by providing viewers of swimming