By Duncan MackayMay 13 - Argentina's Paralympic team are to prepare for London 2012 at the Surrey Sports Park, it has been announced. 

throughout August as they prepare for sports including boccia, football, judo, power lifting, tennis, swimming

By Tom DegunMay 13 - Toronto 2015 have claimed that the cluster system idea they adopted for the Pan/Parapan American Games at the start of the year has allowed them to keep within their $1.4 billion (£888 million/€1.1 billion) budget as they unveiled the key locations for the competition.

Scarborough) Pan Am Complex, is the other major cluster for the event.It will stage aquatic sports such as swimming

By David GoldMay 12 - An Afghan teenager who lost his legs after they were blown off by a Soviet landmine is hoping to compete at this summer's Paralympic Games.

Olympic Torch has been lit here in ancient Olympia, with British-born Greek 10 kilometre open water swimming

By Tom DegunMay 10 - London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe has claimed that the testing programme for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, titled the London Prepares series, has been a major success for his Organising Committee with the final test event – the Visa London Disability Athletics Challenge – signalling the end of 42 preparation events.

Invitational Wheelchair Rugby Tournament while Russia dominated at the FINA Olympic Games Synchronised Swimming

By Tom DegunMay 9 - Alison Williamson is set to participate in her sixth consecutive Olympic Games after she was today named as one of six Team GB archers for London 2012 in an announcement by the British Olympic Association (BOA).

across the seven disciplines of archery, athletics – the marathon - boxing, canoe slalom, sailing, swimming

and synchronised swimming."

By Duncan MackayMay 9 - North Korea is set to make its first appearance in the Paralympics at London later this year, according to reports.

March, the Korea Sports Association (KSA), in South Korea said, and hopes to compete in athletics, swimming

By Mike RowbottomMay 9 – Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes (both pictured left), in the 49er class, and Alison Young, in the Laser Radial event, are the three final nominations for the Team GB sailing team.

for London 2012 to 79 across six disciplines: athletics – marathon, boxing, canoe slalom, sailing, swimming

By David Gold at the Temple of Hera in OlympiaMay 9 - Greece's British-born swimming world champion Spyros

By Duncan MackayMay 9 - Mark Stockwell's replacement as the chairman of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games has been confirmed as Brisbane businessman Nigel Chamier (pictured). 

is best known for helping redevelop Brisbane's City Hall and South Bank.Stockwell, a triple Olympic swimming

By Duncan MackayMay 8 - A special gala lunch has been held at the launch of a futuristic skyscraper has been held to promote Tokyo's bid to hold the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics. 

entertainment and business, included Mikako Kotani, who won a bronze medal in the duet synchronised swimming

By Tom DegunMay 8 - Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States, will appear at the 2012 Team USA Media Summit in Dallas later this month alongside the top US Olympic and Paralympic prospects for London 2012 to announce her Let's Move! initiative which aims to solve the problem of childhood obesity by getting more American children involved in sport.

New York City and Salt Lake City.Alongside the First Lady, the star attraction at the event will be swimming

By Duncan MackayMay 8 - Nearly a million new tickets, including some for the men's 100 metres final and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, will be put on sale for the London 2012 Olympics later this week, chairman Sebastian Coe announced today. 

football;May 14: athletics (race walk), athletics (marathon), canoe slalom, canoe sprint, shooting, swimming

track);May 15: equestrian (dressage), equestrian (eventing), equestrian (jumping), diving, synchronised swimming

, handball, table tennis, swimming (marathon) and water polo;May 16 : basketball (North Greenwich Arena

By Tom DegunMay 8 - Christchurch's Queen Elizabeth II (QE11) Stadium (pictured), home of the 1974 Commonwealth Games, will be torn down due to the irreparable damage it suffered from a devastating earthquake in February 2011 that killed over 150 people.

capacity venue, which was built specially Games, is part of the larger QEII Park featuring a public swimming

By Mike RowbottomMay 7 - Germany's Olympic champion Lena Schöneborn produced an outstanding last-ditch flourish on the first day of the Modern Pentathlon World Championships in Rome as she overhauled China's 2009 world champion Qian Chen on the final run to earn gold in the team relay.

after finishing eighth out of 12 in the opening discipline, fencing.After moving up to fifth after the swimming