By Duncan MackayDecember 4 - Joao Havelange, the former controversial President of FIFA, has resigned as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to avoid being expelled from the organisation he has served for nearly 50 years.

with his predecessor) in 1998 after 24 years as the head of FIFA.Havelange, who represented Brazil in swimming

By Mike RowbottomDecember 2 - A group of women MPs have accused the BBC of "ignoring women's achievements" in this year's Sports Personality of  Year award, for which all of the 10 shortlisted contenders are male.

magazine, such as Sportsister, added to it.Adlington, who won silver and gold at this year's World Swimming

announced its shortlist for November's Athlete of the Month award, which is headlined by Brazilian swimming

Games records broken in the pool at 2011 Parapan American GamesNovember 2011: Brazil win six of 13 swimming

By Tom DegunDecember 2 - The British Olympic Association (BOA) National Olympic Committee (NOC) have elected six individuals to serve as National Governing Body (NGB) representatives on the BOA Board of Directors.

Rowing, Hew Chalmers from British Curling, Richard Leman from GB Hockey, David Sparkes from British Swimming

By Tom DegunDecember 2 - Remaining tickets for the London 2012 Paralympic Games are set to go back on sale on a first come, first served basis at exactly 1pm today.

Switzerland to claim victory on home soil.There remains good availability for morning sessions for swimming

By Tom DegunDecember 2 - Remaining tickets for the London 2012 Paralympic Games are set to go back on sale on a first come, first served basis at exactly 1pm today.

Switzerland to claim victory on home soil.There remains good availability for morning sessions for swimming

Paralympic ticket sales "unprecedented" says DeightonSeptember 2011: Tickets for London 2012 Paralympic swimming

By David GoldDecember 1 - The United States Sports Academy (USSA) has announced its men's and women's shortlists for the Athlete of the Year Award, with LA Galaxy's David Beckham (pictured) among those in line to win the prize.

Championships in Daegu are also both in the running.Ryan Lochte's superb 200m freestyle success at the World Swimming

French Open title, becoming the first Chinese woman to win a grand slam.Italy's orld 400m freestyle swimming

By David GoldNovember 30 - Double Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Adlington joined a host of other swimmers today to launch the Fastskin3 swimwear system which Speedo hope will break a series of records at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Fastskin3 is on sale from today, and it can be worn at meets from January 1 after FINA, the International Swimming

this story at [email protected] storiesJanuary 2010: Steven Downes - A new era for swimming

banJuly 2009: Evans claims new suits making mockery of swimmingJuly 2009: Phelps threatens to boycott swimming

By Tom DegunNovember 30 - Former British swimming world champion Karen Pickering (pictured), who competed

But it is strange that all of the sports editors deemed them more worthy of the award than the two swimming

By Mike RowbottomNovember 29 - A leading women's sporting charity is blaming men's magazines Zoo and Nuts for the fact that there are no females in the 10 shortlisted contenders for this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year, and that it is "horrified" at their presence on the voting list.

shine the spotlight on some of the athletes we will be watching win medals in sports such as triathlon, swimming

By Mike RowbottomAs Britain's male hockey players prepare for the Champions Trophy – a major step en route to London 2012 which gets underway in New Zealand on December 3 – the approach to the task being adopted by their coach Jason Lee involves more lines than Clapham Junction.Lee, a former GB player himself who has guided the team to ninth and fifth places at the last two Olympics, knows a squad which he describes as "probably the strongest ever" is within touching distance of a place on the podium at next year's Olympics. But he also knows that factors...

psychological preparation from members of the Lane4 group which was established in 1995 by former Olympic swimming

David GoldNovember 28 - Paralympic gold medallist Liz Johnson has delivered an ominous warning to her swimming

By Tom DegunNovember 25 - The chairman of the Gold Coast 2018 bid team Mark Stockwell (pictured), the man who led the Australian city to success in the race for the Commonwealth Games earlier this month, has expressed his delight that triathlon mixed relay will feature at the competition.

training base for many of Australia's greatest triathletes," said former Olympic and Commonwealth Games swimming

By Tom DegunNovember 25 - Tier One London 2012 Paralympic sponsor Sainsbury's have launched their first new campaign featuring superstar David Beckham (pictured right) after the former England captain signed a up as an ambassador of the supermarket's Active Kids campaign earlier this month.

the supermarket giant, with the football icon now set to work alongside 17-year-old double Paralympic swimming

By Tom DegunNovember 25 - London 2012 Paralympic sponsor Sainsbury's have launched their first new campaign featuring superstar David Beckham (pictured right) after the former England captain signed a up as an ambassador of the supermarket's Active Kids campaign earlier this month.

the supermarket giant, with the football icon now set to work alongside 17-year-old double Paralympic swimming