By Tom DegunJuly 24 – Paralympic star Nathan Stephens, who will be favourite for gold in the F57 Javelin at London 2012, has unveiled a plaque at the Welsh Institute of Sport in honour of Anthony Hughes, the coach who recognised his talent and trained him into an elite athlete.

and tried ice sledge hockey, horse riding, rugby, archery, weight lifting, table tennis, football, swimming

By Mike RowbottomJuly 23 - China's top swimmers, including double world champion Sun Yang (pictured top), have been finalising their preparations for the London 2012 Olympic Games at the University of Bath.

year's World Championships in Shanghai.Lu Yifan, chief technical researcher of the Chinese national swimming

The campus is very good, it has a good facilities and a good swimming pool."

Baddeley, director of sport at the University of Bath, said: "We've been delighted to host the Chinese swimming

By Tom Degun at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 23 - Britain's four-time Olympic cycling champion Sir Chris Hoy has been named as the Team GB flag bearer for the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony after being nominated for the honour by fellow athletes.

a hat trick of gold medals at the same Olympics since Henry Taylor, who claimed three victories in swimming

By Tom Degun at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 23 - Former Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh has predicted that "sledging" will play a role at the London 2012 Olympics, saying it is a practice that can be used across all sports.

Kieren Perkins, the double 1500 metre Olympic swimming champion, another AOC athlete liaison officer

By Tom Degun at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 22 - Germany's Claudia Bokel has been elected as the new chair of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes' Commission meaning that she will now be promoted to the IOC's ruling Executive Board.

three-horse race that also featured Britain's skeleton athlete Adam Pengilly and Russia's four-time Olympic swimming

By David GoldJuly 18 - Quadruple Paralympic swimming gold medallist Daniel Dias will be Brazil's flag

By Tom DegunJuly 18 - Craig Crowley, President of the International Committee of Sports for the Deaf (ICSD), has admitted that the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics will be "bittersweet" for deaf sport after it has become isolated in recent years.

triumphant with world and Deaflympics champions in men's and women's football, women's hammer throw, women's swimming

By David GoldJuly 18 - The Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) President Greg Hartung has unveiled the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) as the country's first Centre for Paralympic Excellence.

In addition to the programs for five Paralympic sports – athletics, rowing, sailing, swimming and alpine

By Tom DegunJuly 17 - Britain's 11-time Paralympic swimming champion Dave Roberts claimed he could switch

London 2012 when it was announced in April.He launched an appeal which was successful in making British Swimming

Who knows, you may see me swimming for a different country?"

appealJune 2012: Roberts wins appeal to keep London 2012 dream aliveMay 2012: ParalympicsGB swimming

By Duncan MackayJuly 16 - Istanbul's bid to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics has received its first signifcant endorsement from a major international figure after Mark Spitz lent it his support.

The American, winner of nine Olympic gold medals, spoke out in favour of the Turkish city after swimming

failed in his late bid to make it onto the ParalympicsGB team for London 2012 despite forcing British Swimming

it was announced in April.He immediately launched an appeal which was successful in making British Swimming

After a robust and independent appeals process, British Swimming followed the recommendations of the

believe Dave has not met the standards set out for selection to the Paralympics Games," said British Swimming

over the past three years, including a bout of pneumonia earlier this year, but even though British Swimming

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By David GoldJuly 16 - Swimming star Clodoaldo Silva will become a mentor for some of Brazil's young

By David GoldJuly 16 - Swimming star Clodoaldo Silva will become a mentor for some of Brazil's young

By Lauren MatteraJuly 16 - Japan's Modern Pentathlon Association has named earthquake survivor Narumi Kurosu as one of its first ever women athletes to compete in the event at London 2012.

August 11 and 12, at three different Olympic venues: Copper Box for fencing; the Aquatic Centre for swimming

By Tom DegunJuly 15 - Gerry Kinsella, a former Paralympian and the chief executive of Greenbank, has received an Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University for his outstanding contribution to sport and promoting disability sport.

Paralympics, Heidelberg 1972 Paralympics and Toronto 1976 Paralympics, where he secured bronze medals in both swimming