seen such huge interest in it from the media, who were out in their droves trying to quiz the likes of swimming

By Tom Degun at Westminster Park Plaza in LondonJuly 14 - British swimming star Ellie Simmonds, who claimed

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By David Gold at the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 13 - EDF have unveiled their pavilion inside the Olympic Park which will showcase the methods through which, they claim, they have helped to make London 2012 the first truly sustainable Olympic and Paralympics.

are life-size images of Victoria Pendleton, a British Beijing 2008 cycling gold medallist, and French swimming

By David GoldJuly 13 - Australia has revealed its swimming team for the Paralympic Games in London this

confirmed by Australia, who are sending 161 athletes to London in total.Australia is hugely successful in swimming

records en route to London 2012August 2011: Australian joy at fantastic results in Pan Pacific Para Swimming

12 - Teresa Perales and Sarai Gascon are among the leading athletes selected to represent Spain in swimming

By Tom Degun at the Olympic Village in LondonJuly 12 - Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, toured the Olympic Village here today, as the first team officials move in ahead of the arrival of the world's top competitors.

three deputy Olympic Village Mayors – Shadow Cabinet Minister Tessa Jowell, Moscow 1980 Olympic swimming

By Mike RowbottomJuly 12 - With less than a month to go until the modern pentathlon event at the London 2012 Olympic Games, the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) has released its London 2012 promotional video.

The modern pentathlon Olympic event will be held on August 11 and 12, with fencing at the Copper Box, swimming

By David OwenJuly 11 - The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has called on athletes taking performance-enhancing drugs to stay away from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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

.·         The swimming events were held not in a pool, but in the sea.

By David GoldJuly 10 - Yohan Blake is in contention for this month's United States Sports Academy (USSA) Athlete of the Month award after beating world record holder and London 2012 favourite Usain Bolt in the Jamaican Olympic trials.

with a shock defeat to Czech Lukáš Rosol in the second round of Wimbledon.Another nominee is American swimming

By Tom DegunJuly 10 - With exactly 50 days to go to the London 2012 Paralympics, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced plans to broadcast an unprecedented 580 hours of live online sport from the Games via its website.

coverage with English commentary.There will be a dedicated channel each for athletics (pictured top), swimming

By David GoldJuly 9 - Alexander Zhukov, President of the Russian Olympic Committee, will chair the proceedings of this year's Global Sports Industry Congress (GSIC), which will focus on the myriad sports events coming to the country in the coming years.

nbsp;FIFA World Cup in 2018, the World Athletics Championships in Moscow next year and the World Swimming

By Sara EvansJuly 9 - Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium has announced that is bringing back its highly acclaimed series of broadcast features which tell the stories of the country's athletes and deliver London 2012 news. 

challenge in The Experts (clip below) when they go underwater with Canada's senior synchronized swimming

By Tom DegunChris Holmes (pictured) stands on the verge of something very special because if the London 2012 Paralympic Games are the huge success they are predicted to be, he will have played a monumental role as the Organising Committee's director of Paralympic Integration, effectively London 2012's lead for the Paralympic Games.How Holmes actually ended up in the prestigious position is a fascinating tale.As a young teenager, Holmes was a talented swimmer with achievable Olympic ambitions, but aged just 14, he woke up one morning to find he had completely lost his eyesight. The harrowing ordeal was the result of...

He continued swimming at a club in Birmingham and committed to the same training regime as sighted swimmers

securing a place at Cambridge University, where he studied politics.It was around the same time that his swimming

Basildon Sporting Village.It is at this new £38 million ($59 million/€48 million) venue where the Japanese swimming

medals table at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, just one place below the British team.Pleasingly, Japanese swimming