By Tom DegunApril 10 - Ben Clark, the promising 21-year-old swimmer from Poole who broke his neck last year in a freak accident, has stepped up his bid to compete at the London 2012 Paralympic Games by registering for the Inter Spinal Unit Games at Stoke Mandeville later this month.

formerly a lifeguard and a contender to compete at the London 2012 Olympics, dived into a wave while swimming

Salisbury, regaining sense and some voluntary movement in his lower body.He will now be competing in swimming

Clark swims three times a week at the Dolphin swimming pool and is in the gym twice a week.

By Duncan Mackay at SportAccord in London April 8 - Brazil is to use the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre as its training base for the London 2012 Games, it has been announced.

Centre, including volleyball, beach volleyball, handball, basketball, taekwondo, boxing, athletics, swimming

By David GoldApril 8- Chain Reaction Cycles has been announced as the official online bicycle store of the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series, which is due to open in Sydney tomorrow. 

cater to cyclists of all ability groups as well as providing a range of other sporting goods, such as swimming

By Duncan Mackay at SportAccord in LondonApril 7 - Kazan, which is officially known to be the sports capital of Russia, is to bid for the 2015 or 2017 FINA world championships, it was announced here today.

Russia's Ministry of Sport, Tourism and Youth, together with the All Russian Swimming Federation and

By Mike Rowbottom at SportAccord in LondonApril 5 - Mike Lee, advisor to the successful Olympic bidders for London 2012 and Rio 2016, and also to the bid which secured the 2022 World Cup finals for Qatar, defended the use of what he called "the 'L' word – Legacy" in the Debating Chamber at the former General London Council building here.

It might sometimes be a better fit to bid for something like a World Swimming Championships, or World

By David GoldApril 9 - Zone3, created by elite triathlete James Lock, hope to become the choice sports brand of athletes competing in the 2012 Olympic Games.

training at Loughborough University, and has created a new range of limited edition wetsuits, swimming

By Tom DegunApril 5 - Nigeria are set to base themselves in Surrey as they prepare for the London 2012 Olympics, despite the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) and the National Sports Commission (NSC) originally selecting Loughborough University as their training camp for the Games.

in the UK.The facilities include a 400 metre athletics track and field stadium, 25 metre competition swimming

By Tom DegunApril 2 - Sport has been rated as the third most popular career choice for young people in the UK according to an international study commissioned by AXA UK.

category features Winter Olympic gold medallist skeleton star Amy Williams as well as multiple Paralympic swimming

By Tom DegunApril 1 - Dame Mary Peters, the Munich 1972 Olympic pentathlon champion, has claimed that Northern Ireland feel cheated at the fact that they will not host any competition during the London 2012 Games.

2012 Olympics and Paralympics after it was revealed earlier this year that a £40 million ($63 million) swimming

Pacquaio, now a stablemate, in a state-of-the-art high altitude complex complete with running track and swimming

By Tom DegunMarch 29 - London 2012 have defended the allocation of tickets for athletes competing at the Olympic Games after Australian swimmers, including triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice (pictured), expressed disappointment that only one family member will get to see them live in action at the Games next year.

allocation would be just one.London 2012 indicated to insidethegames that due to the popularity of the swimming

cheaply for athletes buying them for family members; a premium ticket to a semi-final or final for swimming

By David GoldMarch 29 - Newham has joined the race to take over the £300 million ($479 million) 2012 Olympic Aquatics Centre after the Games even though the Borough's Mayor Sir Robin Wales has criticised the Zaha Hadid-designed building as being impractical to maintain

I don't know if you can take the roof off, I'm not a swimming pool designer."

Johnson revealed she is not intent on claiming medals at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming

number one in the world in the 100 metres breaststroke SB6 category after winning gold at the 2006 IPC Swimming

and then consolidating it with victory at the Beijing 2008 Paralympics.But at last year's 2010 IPC Swimming

It's really good for the sport though that swimming is growing all the time."

If you've won a swimming medal then you must have worked very hard to win it."

palsy and aged eight, she joined her first swimming club before making it on to the British team just

By Tom DegunMarch 27 - Australia are set to finish outside the top five at the Paralympic Games for the first time since 1992 according to research unveiled today by the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC).

than we did in Beijing, but we have lost ground across the key medal sports of athletics, cycling and swimming

By Tom DegunMarch 27 - Four-time gold medal winning Paralympic swimmer Marc Woods has returned from Malaysia, where he saw how London 2012's International Inspiration programme is making a difference to the lives of children and young people in the country.

that International Inspiration is doing in Malaysia," said Woods, who won a total of 12 Paralympic swimming