By Mike RowbottomJune 16 - Dan Sliwinski, selected to swim for Britain in the men's 100 metre breaststroke at the London 2012 Games, has been forced to withdraw because of an injury to a shoulder tendon.

undergo surgery next week before starting a three-month rehabilitation programme managed by British Swimming

United States Paralympics with three consecutive Paralympic trial events in athletics, cycling and swimming

Team USA’s exciting stretch of trials kick off with swimming in Bismarck, North Dakota on June 14-16,

device (IED) went off in front of him while serving in Afghanistan, said he is looking to compete in swimming

below, right) proving to be one of the stars of the competition – claiming four gold medals in swimming

term goal is to swim competitively at London 2012.He will compete at the upcoming 2012 US Paralympic Swimming

By Tom DegunJune 14 - Andrew Burton, the chief executive of Prestige Ticketing Limited (PTL), has promised that they will be able to sell all of their 80,000 tickets for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, despite a lack of take-up so far in some of the less popular sports.

A lot of our tickets for the popular sports like athletics, swimming and cycling are all pretty much

By Tom Degun at Forman's Fish Island in LondonJune 14 - Technogym, the Official Fitness Equipment Supplier of London 2012, has joined forces with Universal Music, the Official Music Licensee of the Games, to create The Workout Mix in support of Britain's Olympic and Paralympic athletes who will be competing this summer.

including marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe, world champion gymnast Beth Tweddle, European swimming

By Tom DegunJune 13 - Almost half of the British public have changed their summer holiday plans to ensure they are at home to watch the Olympic and Paralympic Games, according to a new study from British Airways.

London 2012 in order to stay at home and support the athletes, in sports such as cycling, athletics, swimming

By Tom DegunJune 12 - Paralympic tandem cycling legend Kieran Modra will miraculously lead the Australian cycling team at London 2012 – despite an horrific accident last year that almost cost him his life.

at the Games.He first competed at the Paralympics in Seoul in 1988 in athletics before switching to swimming

By David GoldJune 7 - Helen Hynd, the mother of British swimming stars Sam and Oliver Hynd, has been

I remember when Ollie passed all his swimming honours aged eight, he was saying to Sam, 'I beat you as

I get really excited when I think about London and I visualise them both swimming in the pool, but I

involvement in the Torch Relay, especially considering the time and effort both her and dad have put my swimming

Both our parents have played a vital part in our swimming careers and I am really excited about the Games

By Duncan MackayJune 6 - More tickets for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Olympic Games are to go on sale this week, with prices starting at £995 ($1,539/€1,226) , London 2012 has announced today.

from £20 ($31/€25) to £720 ($1,114/€887) each, are athletics, boxing, football at Wembley, swimming

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Academy has concluded a six day training programme for swimming

The training was conducted by IPC Swimming in conjunction with the Academy, and was for educators, classifiers

were certified at the end of the six-day programme.They were then given the chance to deliver an IPC Swimming

By Philip BarkerWhen London organised the Olympic Games for the first time in 1908 they had less than two years to get ready. So they needed a man of the calibre of Lord Coe to head the Organising Committee. They found one in William Henry Grenfell (pictured below), later Lord Desborough of Taplow.He was a talented runner, not as brilliant as Coe, but certainly good enough to represent Oxford University over three miles in the 1876 match against Cambridge at Lillie Bridge in West London. He was elected President of the university's Athletics Club, but it was on the water...

The running track was itself surrounded by a cycling track and in the infield, there was a swimming pool.He

By Emily GoddardJune 3 - McFly has been announced as the latest headline act to join the already star studded line up for the free BT London Live concerts taking place during this summer's Olympic and Paralympic Games.

women's athletics 100 metres final, women's triathlon final, climax of the women's heptathlon, and swimming

By David GoldJune 3 - The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) has announced that Martin Richard has been made their new executive director of marketing and communications.

him 12 years of experience in marketing, having spent a decade as the director of communications for Swimming

Canada.During his time at Swimming Canada Richard has been responsible for helping to secure long term

national broadcast partnerships, as well as launching SwimCAN WebTV.He was also recently named Swimming

World Magazine's sport information "Director of the Year" for 2012.Pierre Lafontaine, the Swimming Canada

I'm truly grateful for the wonderful years with Swimming Canada in working with outstanding athletes,

At the start of April I competed at the British International Disability Swimming Championships in Sheffield

While swimming is an individual sport, and ultimately you stand on the starting block alone, knowing

Liz Johnson, a Paralympic Games 100 metres breaststroke gold and silver medallist in swimming, from Beijing

By David GoldMay 30 - Twenty six swimmers nominated to compete for ParalympicsGB at London 2012 have been confirmed by the British Paralympic Association (BPA) to represent the host nation at this summer's Games.

They join 16 swimmers named in April following the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming

Championships.In addition, British Swimming have nominated a further two athletes for selection and they

Hunter said: "Today's announcement just confirms that ParalympicsGB will have one of the strongest swimming

The competition in Paralympic swimming is increasing with every Games, but this team is one of the strongest