By David GoldMarch 31 - Double world champion Liam Tancock has opened the Six Host Borough Swimming Championships

Aquatics Centre will become a fantastic venue for the community after the Games and the Host Borough Swimming

During the championship the British junior synchronised swimming team gave a performance, with the senior

This event gave the local community their first taste of their new swimming facility and we are certain

often and inspire a young person to aspire to become an Olympic Champion in the future," said British Swimming

chief executive David Sparks.London is bidding to host the 2016 LEN European Swimming Championships

By David GoldMarch 30 - British teenage sprinting ace Jack Roughan, the fastest T12 100 metres sprinter in Europe, has told insideworldparasport that he wants someone to challenge his record this year.

travel, the confidence and the social aspect of meeting new people as well," he explained.Roughan tried swimming

By Tom DegunMarch 29 - Transport for London (TfL) has unveiled a special Olympic Legends Underground Map to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic Games featuring icons such as Berlin 1936 four-time gold medallist Jesse Owens as station stops on the map.

to a Summer Olympic sporting discipline such as athletics, basketball, boxing and sailing.American swimming

By Tom DegunMarch 28 - French swimming star Laure Manaudou (pictured), an Olympic, world and European

champion, has qualified for the London 2012 Olympic Games, alongside her brother Florent, at the French Swimming

Following her poor display in Beijing, Manaudou announced her retirement from competitive swimming but

returned to the sport, following the birth of her first child in April 2010 with fellow French swimming

By Mike RowbottomMarch 26 - Australia's Erin Densham produced one of the most impressive performances of her triathlon career, leading the swim and then crushing the field with a decisive run to win her second ITU World Cup in Mooloolaba.

she couldn't keep the smile from her face during the event, especially in the wake of her surprise swimming

London 2012 Paralympics after impressive performances in the 50 metres freestyle of the French National Swimming

of the London 2012 Torch Relay, running from May 10 to 17, with Greece's British-born 10 kilometre swimming

formerly Sweeney, grew up in Anfield and went to Bankfield school in West Derby.But after ending her own swimming

career Brenda settled in Corfu after marrying a Greek.The Greek swimmer has declared already that "swimming

in London will be like swimming at home".He is expected to be a major contender for a medal at this

By Mike RowbottomWith just over four months to go until the third London Olympics and Paralympics get underway, there are already 59 British competitors who are able to set their sights clearly on how they will perform in the biggest event of their lives, having been officially selected.For many others, the next few weeks will be suffused with nerves, and uncertainty. Listening to the reaction of Jo Jackson the other day to her Olympic selection was instructive. Given her previous performances in the pool at the Olympics and world championships, she looked – on the face of it – an...

throwaway comment he made about the propensity for swimmers to party after their events were over – swimming

By Duncan MackayMarch 24 - Tokyo 2020 have appointed former synchronised swimmer Ayano Egami, an Olympic silver medallist at Sydney in 2000, as its full-time head of online and social media - a sign that this bid race is going to be fought in a very different way to previous ones.

The Olympic values I have inherited from my synchronised swimming career have helped me to reach

By Mike RowbottomMarch 24 - James "The Missile" Magnussen (pictured), Australian swimming world 100 metres

We've seen some great swimming this week and depth in many events," said Nugent."

To see 13 and 14-year-olds making finals and matching it with the best shows that the future of swimming

By Tom DegunMarch 22 - Michael Ring, Ireland's Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, has praised his country's involvement in London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics after Ireland's National Aquatic Centre (NAC) signed up 13 nations to use the facility as part of their preparations for the Games.

25 metre international standard warm up pool that is also used for diving.The South Korea national swimming

champions Hungary.Ring (pictured) said that venues like the NAC, which hosted Ireland's Olympic swimming

which is Ireland's third most popular fee paying attraction.It houses Ireland's biggest individual swimming

major events, including the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games and the 2003 European Short Course Swimming

nbsp;record holder in the men's 200 metres breaststroke, has announced his retirement from competitive swimming

Now, he says it is time to retire from elite swimming."

I am happy to stop at a time when I still love swimming.

such as this are difficult and challenging, but Kris should be proud of his many accomplishments in swimming

Kris has had an outstanding swimming career both nationally and internationally over the years with some

By Tom DegunMarch 22 - Preparations are now complete for the Qatar Olympic Committee's (QOC) Schools Olympic Programme finals festival at the Aspire Academy of Sports Excellence in Doha.

nine Olympic sports of athletics, volleyball, basketball, handball, table-tennis, fencing, gymnastics, swimming

By Duncan MackayMarch 20 - Sebastian Coe today expressed confidence that when London 2012 passes on the Olympic Torch to Rio 2016 the Brazilian city will be capable of putting on a good show.

Complex, where children from the community have the opportunity to practice Olympic sports such as swimming

The training centre has an Olympic and a diving swimming pool, an area for taekwondo, a modern strength

By Tom DegunMarch 20 - Six-time Paralympic swimming medallist Fran Williamson (pictured) has begun her