By Duncan Mackay  British Sports Internet Writer of the Year January 29 - Australia's Sports Minister Mark Arbib has announced a $2.5 million (£1.5 million) funding boost for a number of sports where they will be competing against Britain for medals at next year's Olympics in London, including cycling, rowing and sailing.

A new head coach forums is to be set up under the chairmanship of Britain's former head swimming coach

 cycling, rowing and sailing, the other sports who will benefit from the extra funding will be swimming

to look forward to in 2011, including the Track Cycling World Championships (March 23-27, Holland), Swimming

By Tom DegunJanuary 28 - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is looking to fill two newly-created posts - an anti-doping manager and a sports senior manager.

sports (athletics, alpine skiing, biathlon and cross country, ice sledge hockey, powerlifting, shooting, swimming

January 27 - Heather Mills has been injured in a skiing accident in Austria but it will not affect her bid to qualify for the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, she claimed.

believe they could do anything and now they are trying ice skating and rollerblading and biking and swimming

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearJanuary 26 - Rio de Janeiro wants to raise at least $500 million (£314 million) in "Olympic Bonds" to help prepare the city for the 2016 Games, it has been revealed by the Mayor Eduardo Paes (pictured right).

constructed for basketball, judo, taekwondo, wrestling, handball, modern pentathlon, fencing, tennis, swimming

and synchronised swimming, canoe and kayak slaloms, and BMX cycling.

(£49 million) will be spent on seven temporary structures for beach volleyball, triathlon, marathon swimming

January 22 - Children from a Sydney community enjoyed a day of sports activities - including cricket and traditional indigenous games - with past and present Ashes heroes Sir Ian Botham, Steve Waugh (pictured), Michael Vaughan and Paul Collingwood.

cricketers teamed up with Australia's seven-time surfing world champion Layne Beachley and Olympic swimming

January 20 - An inspection visit of Nanjing, host city for the second Youth Olympic Games in China in 2014, has left the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission "very impressed", they said today.

IOC member Alexander Popov, the four-time Olympic swimming champion who is now the chairman of the

By Mike RowbottomJanuary 20 - Ed Warner, chairman of UK Athletics, has indicated his support for the proposal that will be made public today for Crystal Palace to relocate from their current site at Selhurst Park to the Crystal Palace Park athletics site which Tottenham Hotspur want to refurbish as part of their plans to redevelop the London 2012 Olympic stadium exclusively for football.

the Greater London Authority.Palace are expected to propose a community athletics track and a swimming

merely men who make it a thing of sporting beauty.Modern pentathlon, embracing five sports - running, swimming

By Andrew WarshawJanuary 19 - Mike Lee (pictured), the man leading Tottenham Hotspur's public relations campaign to take over the Olympic Stadium after London 2012, insists legacy will form a crucial part of the club's detailed proposals and rejects growing claims they are merely being driven by money.

local authority, Spurs have switched their focus to moving from north to east London.The club have been swimming

January 19 - A major sports event programme which will give a multi-million pound boost to the Sheffield economy and position the city as one of the key UK sporting destinations in the countdown to the 2012 London Olympics has been announced.

Championship, the FINA World Diving Cup, the Yorkshire International Show Jumping, the European Synchronised Swimming

By Tom DegunJanuary 16 - Dan Bentley (pictured) has revealed he hopes becoming a sporting ambassador for Essex for the second time will help him win gold at the London 2012 Paralympics - just as it did at in Beijing.

My training includes nine hours of boccia, two hours of gym work and one hour of swimming, plus help

By Tom DegunJanuary 15 – International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Sir Philip Craven (pictured) has predicted 2011 will be another hugely successful year for the Paralympic Movement and said he expects new stars to emerge.

Paralympic World Championship events.The reception kicked off with a highlights video from the 2010 IPC Swimming

patrons.Photographs were also shown to guests from last year's World Championships in powerlifting, shooting, swimming

January 15 - A new website featuring double Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Adlington has been launched by Speedo to make learning to swim fun for children and parents.

information.Children can also access door hangers featuring favourite Sea Squad characters, a wallchart to track their swimming

tutorials online and printable guides to use on visits to the pool.From Start Splashing through to Start Swimming

how products within the Learn to Swim range work, and how they can be used to help develop a child's swimming

By Mike RowbottomJanuary 11 - Former British 100 metres hurdles record holder Blondel Thompson (pictured) is to become an arbitrator for the Court of Arbitration for Sport, based in Lausanne.

Football Association appeals board.That was extended in 2005 by sports resolutions to other areas such as swimming