Established high performing British Olympic sports such as rowing, sailing, swimming and cycling

December 22 - World diving champion Tom Daley has stepped out for the first time on one of the dive boards where he hopes to go for gold at the London 2012 Olympics.

the Games everybody will have a chance to emulate Tom Daley and other athletes when the diving and swimming

The Aquatics Centre, complete with its 160m long wave-shaped roof, will be where the swimming, diving

, synchronised swimming and the swimming discipline of the Modern Pentathlon will be held at the London

December 21 - An Intercontinental Skeleton Cup and two stages of the Alpine Skiing World Cup got the winter sports season off to a flying start at the Annecy 2018 playing field in Val d'Isere.

Following the Alpine Skiing World Championships in 2009, the media centre was transformed into a swimming

Association SHOOTING International Shooting Sport Federation Great Britain Target Shooting Federation SWIMMING

Federation Interationale de Natation Amateur Amateur Swimming Federation of Great Britain TABLE TENNIS

By Tom DegunDecember 20 - Confusion surrounds the future of the Netherlands Antilles and whether they will be allowed to compete at the London 2012 Olympics after the autonomous Caribbean country ceased to exist as a separate territory.

The International Sport Shooting Federation (ISSF) and the International Federation of Swimming (FINA

December 20 - An organisation dedicated to promoting sport and helping young people has been selected as a Community Olympic Development Programme (CODP) partner by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC).

Paralympic sport through clinics and programmes in archery, badminton, gymnastics, weightlifting, wrestling, swimming

By Tom DegunOf all the world's many famous Paralympians, it is South African swimming sensation Natalie

sporting reputation.Growing up, it was soon very clear that Du Toit was unusually talented in the sport of swimming

A host of swimming experts felt certain that South Africa had a future Olympic champion on their hands

Having finished a swimming practice, Du Toit was riding to school on her scooter when, out of nowhere

Du Toit managed to survive after a week in intensive care but it appeared her promising swimming career

within three months she was not only walking again with the aid of a prosthetic limb, but back in the swimming

Her new aim was to compete in the disability swimming events at the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games.Du

Also, I've pretty much achieved everything I set out to achieve when I took up Paralympic swimming."

By Tom DegunDecember 17 - Multiple Paralympic medalist shooter Im Yeon Kim of South Korea has won the Asian Paralympic Committee's (APC) Athletes' Representatives election after polling more than twice as many votes as the nearest candidate and will now represent the views of athletes on the APC's Executive Board for the next four years.

Sunday [December 19], has seen hosts China dominant from the outset.This was clearly illustrated in the swimming

China topped the medal table for the pool picking up 102 medals, 48 of which were gold.The final day of swimming

seven participation sports, including the only sports with more than two million weekly participants - swimming

participation in major sports has a huge impact on the overall growth of grassroots sport due to their size.For swimming

By Tom DegunDecember 16 - Heather Mills (pictured), former wife of Sir Paul McCartney, has been offered a place on the adult development squad of the British Disabled Ski Team for a trial period as she continues to pursue her dream of representing Britain at the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympic Games.

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

By Tom DegunDecember 15 - Host nation China have sent a clear warning shot to the world ahead of London 2012 with a phenomenal display at the 2010 Asian Para Games where they claimed an astonishing 157 medals - 77 of them gold - in just three days.

The enthusiasm and support were at the swimming earlier this morning and the basketball yesterday."

By Tom DegunDecember 13 - Takuro Yamada of Japan secured his place in sporting history by storming to victory in the men's S9 400 metres freestyle final to claim the first ever gold medal of the inaugural Asian Para Games.

The classification of both S8 and S9 in swimming event is for wheelchair athletes and amputees while

December 8 - With just four days to go to the start of the 2010 Asian Para Games in Guangzhou, China, officials are working on the final transformation from last month's 16th Asian Games.

wheelchair basketball and para table tennis.The Games will feature 19 sports, including athletics, swimming

By Tom DegunDecember 6 – The Asian Para Games in Guangzhou, which start next Sunday (December 12), will be "the opportunity of a lifetime" for disability athletes in Asia to compete in a major multi-sport event and for top competitors to rehearse for London 2012 according to Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) President Dato' Zainal Abu Zarin.

cycling, football five-a-side, football seven-a-side, goalball, judo, powerlifting, rowing, shooting, swimming

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearDecember 4 - Thomas Bach was today re-elected as President of the German Olympic Sport Confederation (DOSB) until 2014.

was re-elected as vice-president of the DOSB while Christa Thiel, the President of the German Swimming