By Tom DegunJuly 7 - The United States Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta has led a Pentagon celebration in Virginia where he has hailed the competitors from the 2012 Warrior Games, which took place in May this year at the United States Olympic Training Centre in Colorado Springs.

and field and four in swimming.After the Warrior Games, Snyder then went on to win all five of his swimming

events at the US Paralympic swimming trials and will head to London 2012 as a major medal prospect."

By Tom DegunJuly 7 - Many of Britain's most prominent coaches, including heptathlon star Jessica Ennis' mentor Toni Minichiello, will come together to share their knowledge and expertise at the Global Coaches House, hosted by the London Campus of Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, during the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.

Super 15 rugby franchise the Brumbies, Bill Sweetenham, who has served as the head coach of national swimming

By Lauren MatteraJuly 6 - Construction work on Rio 2016's 1.18 million square metre Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca commenced today, as Brazil prepares itself to be the next Olympic hosts.

consisting of basketball, judo, taekwondo, wrestling, handball, tennis, cycling, diving, water polo, swimming

, synchronised swimming, artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline will be staged at the

By David GoldJuly 6 - Brazil is sending 182 athletes from 18 sports, including swimming stars Daniel

was the winner of three gold medals at Beijing 2008 and won a stunning eight titles at the 2010 IPC Swimming

London.Brasil also won four gold medals in Beijing four years' ago, and the pair spearhead what is a strong swimming

By David GoldJuly 5 - France has named the 164 athletes representing them at London 2012 in 10 different sports.

Those selected are headed up by swimming star Élodie Lorandi (pictured above), who claimed five gold

100m S4 freestyle events.He won three titles at last year's International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming

By Tom Degun at Basildon Sporting VillageJuly 4 - Japanese swimming star Takuro Fujii, who claimed a

the Olympics this summer here at Basildon Sporting Village (pictured below), which the Japanese swimming

not sure if I will be there as a swimmer because that is a long way off, but even if I am not swimming

Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Buenos Aires in September next year and Japan's London 2012 swimming

2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in our country and I think it would be particularly good for swimming

Swimming is one of the biggest Olympic sports in Japan and having a home Games would encourage more

By David GoldJuly 4 - The Finnish Paralympic Committee has named 32 athletes in its team for London 2012.

sports.As well as athletics, those sports are archery, judo, goalball, equestrian, cycling, sailing, swimming

By Tom DegunJuly 3 - American legend Michael Phelps, the man widely considered as the greatest ever swimmer, will "only" be targeting seven Olympic gold medals at London 2012 after dropping the 200 metres freestyle from his programme.

Phelps booked his spot in the 47-strong United States Olympic swimming team in all seven events after

Also in the US swimming team is 17-year-old starlet Missy Franklin (pictured above), who is set to become

compete at the 100m distance, despite a disappointing performance at the trials.The full US Olympic swimming

By Tom DegunJuly 3 - Surrey are welcoming athletes for their final training sessions ahead of London 2012 with 12 international Olympic and Paralympic teams set to use the British county as a base camp in order to put the finishing touches on their preparations for the Games.

which is the first Starbucks in Europe to be housed within a multi-sports facility.The Philippines swimming

By Tom DegunJuly 3 - Sophie Pascoe, New Zealand's triple Paralympic swimming champion, will lead her

three gold medals and a silver.Pascoe (pictured above) is joined on the team by another Beijing 2008 swimming

compete in the seven Paralympic sports of athletics, cycling, equestrian, rowing sailing, shooting and swimming

commit myself six days a week, training six to eight hours a day and seeing only the four walls inside a swimming

By Tom DegunJuly 2 - British sprint star Jonnie Peacock heads the shortlist for the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athlete of the Month award for June after his sensational T44 100 metres world record in Indianapolis.

T42 sprint at the IPC Athletics European Championships to take the gold.Next on the list is America's swimming

once again showed her class as she smashed an astonishing five world records at the US Paralympics swimming

By Tom DegunJune 30 - Fumiyo Minemura, head coach of the Japanese Paralympic swimming squad, has

Japan are one of the world's strongest swimming nations.At the Beijing 2008 Olympics, they came fourth

in the swimming medal table, just one place below the British team, after winning two gold medals and

at Athens in 2004.The 29-year-old from Tokyo will now be hoping that the new 50 metre Olympic-size swimming

who will use the facility in Basildon is Takayuki Suzuki (pictured), who won Japan's only Paralympic swimming

By Tom DegunJune 29 – American legend Michael Phelps, widely considered the greatest swimmer of all time, has finally revealed that he is targeting eight Olympic gold medals at London 2012 – in the same events he sensationally won at Beijing 2008.

cut some races from his gruelling schedule, he finally unveiled his schedule during the US Olympic swimming

By Duncan MackayJune 29 - Russia's new-look for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, manufactured by Bosco, has been unveiled at a special event to mark the official opening of the Russian Outfitting Centre on Moscow's iconic Kudrinskaya Square.

Natalia Ishchenko, a member of the Russian synchronised swimming team that won the gold medal in Beijing