By Mike Rowbottom at the Aquatics Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 31 - Ye Shiwen collected her second gold of the Olympics in the 200 metres individual medley here tonight – and emphatically denied that she has ever taken any performance-enhancing substances.

I was picked out at school by my teachers when I was seven because I had a good physique for swimming

performance on Saturday (July 28) was described by John Leonard, the US executive director of the World Swimming

Shiwen must be praised for performanceIt certainly raised old suspicions in some quarters about Chinese swimming

By Tom Degun at the Aquatics Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 31 - American swimming icon Michael

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By David GoldJuly 31 - The President of the Spanish Olympic Committee, Alejandro Blanco, has admitted his surprise at the men's football team's early exit from the London 2012 Olympics.

In other sports – canoeing, synchronised swimming, cycling, taekwondo, judo, sailing – Spain

By Tom Degun at the Aquatics Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 30 - America's teenage swimming

Swimming is an amazing sport and it's an absolute dream to swim in a pool like this, in front of a crowd

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world-class field in the women's 100 metres breaststroke final to claim her country's first ever Olympic swimming

ever winner of the discipline at 15 years 133 days old as well as the youngest Olympic champion in any swimming

shooting.Alekna again won the men's discus at Athens 2004 while Meilutyte becomes Lithuania's first swimming

By Tom Degun at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 30 - London 2012 has started to put thousands of tickets back on sale for the Olympics in an emergency bid to fill the empty seats at venues across the Games.

We really are doing the best we can but it is not an exact science, as we saw with swimming last night

By Mike Rowbottom at the Aquatics Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 29 - In a stupendous finale to an evening which had already seen world records from Dana Vollmer and Cameron van der Burgh, France produced one of the Olympics' great moments as their the men's 4x100 metres freestyle team took gold from the grip of their United States rivals thanks to an inspired swim from Yannick Agnel.

Adlington, move from sixth at halfway to take bronze amid thunderous acclaim – the home nation's first swimming

Latynina.The French victory was the first in this event by a European nation, and their total of two Olympic swimming

By Andrew Warshaw at the Aquatics Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 29 - This time, in theory at least, the roars beforehand were perhaps more in hope than expectation.

it would have needed a major upset for Rebecca Adlington (pictured top), darling of British women's swimming

produced with a magnificent last 200 metres to clinch the bronze and give the host nation its first swimming

By Andrew Warshaw at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 29 - London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe today launched a robust defence of his organisation's ticket policy at the Olympic Games, insisting that the swathes of empty seats witnessed at several venues would not continue beyond the early stages of competition.

Swimming and gymnastics are just two of the arenas that were far from full on the first official day

By David Owen at the Aquatics Centre on the Olympic Park in London July 28 - Could the Michael Phelps era in the Olympic pool be over?

however, fascinating as that was.Shiwen Ye capped a magnificent first day at the Games for China, swimming

IPC) has unveiled another four new websites, for the sports of athletics, powerlifting, shooting and swimming

By Tom Degun at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 27 - American swimming icon Michael

Phelps prepare to swim in the championship final of the men's 200m backstroke at the 2012 US Olympic Swimming

It isn't just going to be Michael and me swimming, the world's best will be in that pool aiming for gold

By David Owen at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 26 - The doping police have unsheathed a new weapon in the battle against drug cheats at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

deploying the Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) at London 2012.The six are understood to be athletics, swimming

already underwayApril 2012: UK Anti-Doping to share blood information on athletes with international swimming

By David GoldJuly 25 - Nine of Brazil's swimming hopes for the London 2012 Paralympics are travelling

Daniel Dias (pictured above) and André Brasil (pictured below), the country's leading swimming hopes,

By Tom Degun at the London Media centreJuly 25 - Worldwide Olympic Partner P&G has today opened its Family Home in Bankside, central London which is designed to serve as a "home away from home" for the families of athletes competing at the London 2012 Games.

world's most famous athletes including Ileana Lochte (pictured top, second left), the mother to Team USA swimming