isn't here competing for Jamaica in athletics and why Michael Phelps didn't come to Guadalajara for the swimming

By David GoldOctober 18 - The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) has selected five Paralympic legends for their Hall of Fame, who will be officially inducted later this week.

Clayton Gerein won seven gold medals in a glorious career in athletics, having previously competed in swimming

world records during his career as a swimmer.Edgson was the first Para-swimmer to be inducted into Swimming

By Duncan MackayOctober 14 - Rome has made another significant appointment as it continues to build a team to bid for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics by announcing that Coni Servizi Engineering & Consulting has been chosen to be its lead technical partner.

-seat Stadio Olimpico, a newly built 10,500-seat tennis stadium and outdoor pools used for the 2009 swimming

effectively wiping a whole generation of sporting records, particularly in the field of athletics and swimming

By Duncan MackayOctober 14 - More than 100,000 people have got tickets to the London 2012 Paralympics in the first round sale, it was revealed today.

ticket bids, London 2012 said.There were ballots for 16 sports including athletics, track cycling and swimming

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

By Duncan MackayOctober 14 - More than 100,000 people have got tickets to the London 2012 Paralympics in the first round sale, it was revealed today.

ticket bids, London 2012 said.There were ballots for 16 sports including athletics, track cycling and swimming

By Emily GoddardOctober 13 - German open water swimming star Thomas Lurz has taken gold at the last stop

of the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup in Hong Kong after fighting off some heavy competition

By Tom DegunOctober 11 - The Graham Condon Leisure complex has officially opened in Christchurch paying tribute to late New Zealand Paralympic legend and city councillor of the same name.

€10.2 million) recreation and sport centre at Papanui High School was built to help the city's depleted swimming

By Tom DegunOctober 10 - International Archery Federation (FITA) general secretary Tom Dielen claimed that everyone involved in the sport has fallen in love with Lord's Cricket Ground following the conclusion of the Olympic test event.

December, January and February before the Cluster 2 test event programme comes to a close with the British Swimming

By David GoldOctober 9 - Double world 10 kilometres open water champion Keri-Anne Payne is refusing to be distracted by the prospect of claiming gold at next year's Olympic Games.

Despite Payne's success in her brief career to date, Rebecca Adlington is set to be the focus of British swimming

By Duncan MackayOctober 8 - The first-ever South Asian Beach Games has opened in Hambantota, an event the Sri Lankan city hopes to use to promote its bid to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

including basketball, football, handball, kabbadi, netball, volleyball, body building, equestrian, sailing, swimming

By Tom Degun at the Aquatic Centre on the Olympic ParkOctober 7 - Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, today unveiled the plans for the 2012 School Games finals, which will see around 1,600 of Britain's top young sports stars competing in four key Olympic venues just two months before the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony.

Paralympic sports of fencing, rugby sevens, gymnastics, hockey, badminton, athletics, cycling, judo, swimming

Along with Olympic swimming gold medallist Adrian Moorhouse, he argued its case successfully to the BOA

By Tom DegunOctober 6 - British Paralympic swimmer Fran Williamson has announced her retirement from the sport after admitting that she is unlikely to claim a podium spot at London 2012.

My swimming career has brought me so much."

National Performance Director for Paralympic swimming John Atkinson added: "Fran has had a key role in

Her achievements in the sport have been vast and they are an outstanding credit to her and British Swimming

By Duncan MackayOctober 3 - Rome today made the first significant international appointment in the campaign to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics when it selected the Atlanta-based Helios Partners as its top consultants, hoping that the recent remarkable run of success enjoyed by the company's founder Terence Burns continues.

-seat Stadio Olimpico, a newly built 10,500-seat tennis stadium and outdoor pools used for the 2009 swimming