February 18 - USA Synchro has revealed Premier Management Group (PMG) as its new corporate consultancy partner.

Terry Harper and the NGB's Board have provided us a terrific opportunity to help synchronised swimming

February 18 - The Australian Olympic Committee has announced another former swimming great, Kieren Perkins

Jordan Olympic Committee has embraced International Inspiration and is working closely with the national swimming

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearFebruary 16 - China's athletics team are to base themselves in Leeds in the final build-up to the London 2012 Olympics after the Yorkshire city beat off fierce competition from other regions in Britain to secure a deal.

countries.Serbia is to base its whole team there next year, splitting them between Leeds and Sheffield.The Dutch swimming

By Mike RowbottomFebruary 15 - Cyclists taking part in next year's Olympic time trial will set off and finish in the historic surrounds of Hampton Court Palace, it has been revealed.

Synchronised swimming takes place from August 5-7, and from August 9-10.

By Andrew Warshaw in London February 11 - After months of often bitter wrangling, West Ham United was officially confirmed today as the preferred bidder to take over the Olympic Stadium after the London 2012 Games.

Whilst on paper Tottenham's bid made far more commercial sense, the club had been swimming against the

February 11 - Some of Ireland's top coaches have attended a development seminar at the Irish Institute of Sport in the build-up to the London 2012 Paralympics. 

The daylong seminar was attended by coaches from archery, athletics equestrian, football, rowing, swimming

By Tom Degun February 10 - A swimming project that will give young people with physical, sensory or

It will be led by the ASA, the national governing body for swimming, and from March, the project will

offer youngsters who are identified at school as having "higher swimming ability" the chance

to improve through extra swimming sessions thanks to the 20 Swim Links projects that will be taking

Carole Barough, the ASA's National Development Manager for Disability Swimming, said: "By attending

"Not only will this help us to find the swimming stars of the future but it will also help to improve

By Tom Degun February 10 - The British Olympic Association (BOA) have revealed they will be issuing guidelines for Twitter to all 26 sports participating at the London 2012 Games in what is a clear attempt to stave off unwanted headlines.

David Sparkes, the British Swimming chief executive, welcomed the move as he said: "We will be under

By Tom DegunFebruary 8 - Britain's disability swimming team have just completed an intense two week training

goal for Simmonds and her teammates but it is the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) European Swimming

British team this season.The first qualification event for the European Championships is the British Swimming

which take place at the Manchester Aquatics Centre next month.John Atkinson, the British Disability Swimming

camp in Qatar was vital for getting the team into the best possible condition ahead of the British Swimming

By Mike Rowbottom in Abu DhabiFebruary 7 - Verena Bentele's achievement in winning five skiing golds at last year's Vancouver Winter Paralympics was marked in the plush surrounds of the Emirates Palace Hotel here tonight at the Laureus World Sports Awards.

accepted her award as World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability after winning the vote over her swimming

February 3 - USA Swimming have appointed Frank Busch as its new team director for next year's Olympics

to achieve the best and highest success we can," said the 59-year-old Busch, the 1998 United States swimming

national team director, but [with] no real change to the overall scope and nature of the position," USA Swimming

President Bruce Stratton said.USA Swimming executive director Chuck Wielgus praised Busch for his character

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearFebruary 2 - The Government have scrapped another of the legacy schemes launched by former Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell, the national 25th Hour campaign, which was aimed at using London 2012 to get people to volunteer in their local communities.

Government replaced Labour, the DCMS announced that they were scrapping a scheme to provide free swimming

storiesNovember 2010: Robertson launches new £135 million London 2012 legacy scheme July 2010: Swimming

gold medallist Ian Thorpe has confirmed he will come out of retirement and return to international swimming

I went to see the swimming venue for the London Olympics and it's an extraordinary venue and I could

It hasn't been something that I have taken lightly, making a decision to return to competitive swimming

"I never thought that I'd be swimming in a competitive way again.""I'm very glad that I am.

"If I was I wouldn't have stopped swimming, and especially going through the amount of training I have

It's big, it's enormous, but I'm prepared," he said, saying there were "things in swimming I haven't

February 1 - Five-time Olympic gold medallist Ian Thorpe is set to announce tomorrow his plans to try and qualify for London 2012, ending his five-year retirement.

close friends that he would be returning to the pool and would be lodging drug-testing paperwork with Swimming

Manager David Flaskas said Thorpe would address the media in Sydney "about his swimming future.