By Tom Degun in LondonAugust 24 - Channel 4, the London 2012 Paralympic host broadcaster, have today announced a new documentary series titled Best of British which will follow a number of top athletes on their journey to compete at the Games when they get underway in just over a year.

Power Dwarves focuses on the attributes of discus, shot and javelin throwers.Wheelchair racing and swimming

  Swimming star Emma Wilkins won gold at the 2007 UK School Games and recently competed for Great

By Duncan MackayAugust 22 - Nepal's Olympic and Paralympics team are to train in Kent in the run-up to London 2012, it has been announced.

there.Nepal sent eight athletes to the Olympics in Beijing in 2008, competing in athletics, judo, shooting, swimming

competed in the T46 category.But they hope to also qualify competitors in powerlifting, shooting and swimming

By Tom DegunAugust 21 - A new trailer for the highly anticipated video game Mario and Sonic At The London 2012 Olympics has been launched by Sega.

Stratford is also shown.The characters are seen competing in a number of sports including athletics, swimming

By Tom DegunAugust 20 - Britain's multiple Paralympic champion Sarah Storey has backed top disability stars to compete in able-bodied sporting competition as long as they still treat the Paralympic Games as the pinnacle.

The 33-year-old from Manchester, who was born with a deformed left hand, started out in the sport of swimming

By Tom DegunAugust 18 - British BMX star Shanaze Reade admitted that she is excited at the chance to step out onto the London 2012 BMX track tomorrow to take part in the UCI Supercross World Cup which will act as the test event for the Olympic Games.

90m.Some 14,000 cubic metres of soil was used during the construction which is enough to fill the Olympic swimming

By Tom DegunAugust 20 - Britain's multiple Paralympic champion Sarah Storey has backed top disability stars to compete in able-bodied sporting competition as long as they still treat the Paralympic Games as the pinnacle.

The 33-year-old from Manchester, who was born with a deformed left hand, started out in the sport of swimming

By Tom DegunAugust 18 - Craig McCord, Canada's Paralympic swimming head coach, has revealed that it is

Canada finished in tenth place in the swimming medal table in Beijing as they claimed a total of 23 three

since 2003, has overseen a major development programme to get more individuals involved in Paralympic swimming

I was on the verge of burnout before I got the opportunity to get into this role in Paralympic swimming

By Tom DegunAugust 17 – London 2012 has revealed details of its plans to host International Paralympic Day on September 8 this year with Trafalgar Square set to stage the event and South African superstar Oscar Pistorius lined up to be one of the star attractions.

will also be some of Britain's top disability athletes in attendance including multiple Paralympic swimming

By Duncan MackayAugust 15 - Leeds will be the main European base for China during the build-up to London 2012, it has been announced.

athletics,n the sports that will be based in Leeds are mountain biking, fencing, modern pentathlon, swimming

By David GoldAugust 15 - Australian swimmers swept to glory at the Pan Pacific Para (PPP) Swimming Championships

preparatory tournament ahead of next year's Paralympic Games.Full results from the Pan Pacific Para Swimming

Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park after claiming victory there today in the London 10 kilometre Marathon Swimming

intermediate timing points and also how LOCOG teams have operated today, alongside the International Swimming

spectacular venue for this test event and in 2012 it is going to make a great setting for the Marathon Swimming

organisers are making the safety of the athletes their number one priority ahead of the Olympic marathon swimming

consciousness mid-race.The tragic incident was the first death in the 102-year history of the International Swimming

The nature of marathon swimming is that every course is different and that is what makes it so exciting

pair in Shanghai to become world champion and therefore qualify for the London 2012 Olympic marathon swimming

still have athletes to cheer as Rachel Williamson and Lucy Charles, both of whom are from the British Swimming

By Tom DegunAugust 11 - Cadbury has today announced the final two athletes to complete its team of six athlete ambassadors with Paralympic stars Richard Whitehead and Jordanne Whiley being unveiled.

at the London 2012 Paralympics.The Paralympic duo join the four other Cadbury Athlete Ambassadors in swimming

has announced that all of the samples collected and analysed for banned substances from its European Swimming

image of Paralympic sport with the competition in the German capital being the last major disability swimming