By Tom DegunApril 18 - Paralympic gold medal winning swimmer Liz Johnson has laid the final tile in the Aquatics Centre competition pool to mark 500 days to go to the London 2012 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony.

After the Games, the Aquatics Centre will become a 2,500 capacity venue providing two 50m swimming pools

At the British Swimming Championship in Manchester a few weeks ago I was really pleased to secure my

British International Disability Championships is one of the best attended events in the disability swimming

By Tom DegunApril 17 - Singapore have become the latest nation to confirm they will train in Surrey ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

August 14 this year.Around 40 athletes and 26 officials from the four sports of badminton, shooting, swimming

and completed in April last year, the University of Surrey owned facility boasts a 50-metre indoor swimming

Beijing 2008 Games, Team Singapore competed in six sports - athletics, badminton, shooting, sailing, swimming

He represented Britain three times in swimming at the Paralympic Games from 1996 to 2004, winning three

By Tom DegunApril 16 - Great Britain's top table tennis stars Paul Drinkhall and Jack Hunter-Spivey joined local schoolchildren in Sheffield in order to celebrate the city hosting the final edition of the annual Sainsbury's UK School Games this September.

Sheffield.The programme now includes cycling, athletics, badminton, fencing, gymnastics, hockey, judo, swimming

, table tennis and volleyball with disability events in swimming, athletics and table tennis.Director

By David GoldApril 15 - Swim Wales have announced that the first annual Dragon Open Water Swim will take place later this year on August 6, with the possibility that the event could lead to qualification for future Commonwealth Games.

The event will be taking place in Swansea off the Mumbles coastline, bringing a major international swimming

take part in the event, with more spaces planned in future years.With the possibility of open water swimming

race for Welsh athletes.The new event could also help a potential future Swansea bid to host a major swimming

When I travel to different parts of the world to compete I see how popular open water swimming has become

By David GoldApril 14 - Speedskaters dominated the United States Olympic Committee's (UOSC) Athletes and Team of the Month awards for March, with Katherine Reutter and Shani Davis the most prominent winners.

top of the men's rankings.Nathan Adrian came third after helping the University of California's men's swimming

team claim its first NCAA swimming championship in 31 years.The US women's gymnastics team came second

Grey-Thompson, Britain has never had such a prolific wheelchair wizard, a sport he took up after trying swimming

By David GoldApril 13 - Italy are aiming to bring home 31 medals from London 2012 as they look to build on their success from the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and secure a top ten finish in the medal table, officials have revealed.

has been the main beneficiary of funding with almost a quarter of the Government contributions, with swimming

By Mike RowbottomApril 12 - Wrestling has become the latest British sport to be accorded Host Nation Qualification places at London 2012.

The BOA has now confirmed that wrestling, fencing, synchronised swimming, beach volleyball, basketball

By Mike RowbottomApril 11 - Eight British fencers will have the opportunity to compete at London 2012 following the latest announcement on Host Nation Qualifications places by the British Olympic Association (BOA).

the BOA's Director of Sport Sir Clive Woodward.The BOA has now confirmed that fencing, synchronised swimming

By Tom DegunApril 11 - A group of 18 men and women have been given a cash grant so they can pursue their dreams of representing the United States at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

gymnastics).The 2011 Paralympic hopeful recipients are: Zena Cole (track and field), Michael Hughes (swimming

), Daniel Rizzieri (track and field), Ileana Rodriguez (swimming), Joseph Underwood (swimming), Daphne

have named a formidable team of 43 to compete at the 2011 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming

London 2012 and National Performance Director John Atkinson, who has been in charge of the disability swimming

The squad for Berlin was selected following the British International Disability Swimming Championships

By Tom Degun at Lee Valley Athletics Centre in London April 11 - Supermarket giant Sainsbury's have today launched the 1 Million Kids Challenge which aims to encourage a million children from across the UK to try out a Paralympic sport ahead of London 2012.

King, Cultural Secretary Jeremy Hunt, ParalympicsGB vice-chair Ann Cutcliffe and double Paralympic swimming

By Emily GoddardApril 10 - Brunel University will play host to the South Korean Olympic team after being named as its official London 2012 training camp following a special ceremony attended by several dignitaries.

in the women's 67 kilogram category - two in weightlifting and one each in badminton, judo and swimming