By Tom DegunMarch 1 - Double Beijing 2008 Paralympic swimming champion Ellie Simmonds admitted she was

in cartoon, it really hits home that London 2012 is soon," said Simmonds, who in the cartoon is seen swimming

I think that what keeps me inspired is doing my best and doing what I love, which is swimming."

February 26 - Five-time Olympic gold medallist Ian Thorpe has refused to reveal the identity of the new coach he hopes will take him through to next year's London Olympics.

month.Thorpe won 11 world titles and set 13 long-course records before announcing his retirement from swimming

By Tom DegunFebruary 25 - Barry Hearn (pictured), the chairman of Leyton Orient, has revealed he will be requesting the assistance of West Ham United and the Premier League to help his club build a new 15,000-seater stadium at nearby Eton Manor on the Olympic Park, in return for not disrupting the handover of the London 2012 Stadium with legal challenges.

Eton Manor is currently being redeveloped and is due to host three temporary training swimming pools

February 25 - Live Nation Music UK have been appointed as the international event promoter for London's four "Fesitval Live Sites" during next year's Olympics and Paralympics, it was announced today.

Paralympic Games and we are delighted that Hyde Park will not only be home to the triathlon and marathon swimming

February 23 - World record holders Sue Powell (pictured) and Greg Ball will spearhead the Australian team at next month's Para-cycling Track World Championships being staged in Montichiari, Italy, from 11 to 13 March.

seventh Paralympics at London next year.He represented Australia in the athletics at the 1988 Games, swimming

metres of material was excavated to create the bowl for the Velodrome - enough to fill 19 Olympic-sized swimming

February 22 - The British Olympic Association's (BOA's) sport engagement team is now complete following the recent addition of seven new team members, including former runner Alison Wyeth (pictured), who competed in the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Games.

successful cycling team, including triple gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy.Armiger sits on the British Swimming

Programmes Performance Directorate and has been a member of the GB Technical Swimming Committee for

By Tom DegunFebruary 21 - Twitter workshops are to be held by the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) next month to demonstrate how easy it is to "fall foul of the social media" and prevent athletes following Stephanie Rice (pictured) and getting themselves in trouble at London 2012.

athletes with Twitter guidelines later this year and comes following a high-profile gaffe from Australian swimming

voluntarily taken part in the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, despite a directive from the Australian Swimming

By Tom DegunFebruary 21 - The BBC, for so long the only channel interested in disability sport in Britain, have suffered another blow after losing the television rights to broadcast this year's BT Paralympic World Cup after covering the previous six editions of the event.

Wheelchair basketball, athletics and swimming set to return to the programme this year while boccia and

wheelchair basketball on May 23-26 and athletics on May 27 with the Manchester Aquatics Centre hosting the swimming

By Tom DegunFebruary 21 - Coca-Cola-owned sports drink brand Powerade has launched a campaign featuring Paralympic star Richard Whitehead, the reigning 200 metre T42 world champion, to promote its drink formula ION4.

Team GB and ParalympicsGB for the London 2012 Olympic Games, to the test alongside two-time Olympic swimming

February 21 - Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has appointed Peta-Kaye Croft (pictured) as Parliamentary Secretary for the Gold Coast's bid to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Croft, a renowned environmentalist who is a qualified swimming instructor and who speaks Japanese, predicted

By Mike Rowbottom in Abu Dhabi February 20 - Dawn Fraser believes her fellow Australian Olympic swimming

"He retired too early, even though he had had 10 years of competitive swimming because he started

London 2012 Games.Fraser, whose own Olympic career was ended by a draconian ban from the Australian Swimming

But I was forcibly retired by the swimming authorities."

There was no money when I was swimming, but it wasn't a do or die."

coach and living in a room above a swimming pool."

But even to this day I don't like swimming in heated pools. I got used to the cold.

"I got rid of amateur status in swimming for our country.

By Tom Degun February 18 - Chelsea and England midfield star Frank Lampard has revealed that he wants to be selected to complete for Britain at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

"And swimming.