Home swimmer Alberto Razzetti earned the first gold of the European Aquatics Championships at Rome’s Foro Italico as he won the men’s 400m individual medley.

Gymnast Adem Asil was the star of the show for hosts Turkey as he captured individual all-around and team gold medals at the Islamic Solidarity Games here.

Esmaeili Varaghoul to win the women’s under-67kg title.There was a one-two-three for Turkey in the Para swimming

World, Olympic and Commonwealth gold medallist Adam Peaty has confirmed he will not compete at the European Aquatics Championships which begin tomorrow in Rome.

European Junior Championships there.Sarah Sjöström of Sweden promises a surprise when she takes off her swimming

is expected to compete in the same events in Rome and has a surprise in store when she removes her swimming

I like to surprise people when I take my swimming cap off, so many Swedish girls have blonde hair so

I like to surprise people," Sjöström said.The first medals are due to be won in in artistic swimming,

Work to install a footbridge linking the Stade de France and the site of the Olympic Aquatics Centre during the Paris 2024 Olympics is set to be completed this week.

manager of Solideo, said.The Olympic Aquatics Centre is due to host diving, water polo and artistic swimming

The Islamic Solidarity Games are due to formally open in Konya tomorrow, although medals have already been won in several sports.

programme, although non-Olympic aerobic gymnastics is also due to be contested in Turkey.Track cycling, swimming

Birmingham said its goodbyes after a marvellous staging of the 22nd Commonwealth Games tonight - and music, pouring out of the city down the years, was the main medium.

next year having served two full terms.There was only one glitch - after Britain’s multiple Paralympic swimming

Australia's Chef de Mission Petria Thomas has lauded the country's athletes, coaches and support staff after the nation became the first to win 1,000 gold medals in Commonwealth Games history here.

medals on the 10th day of competition at Birmingham 2022.Thomas won nine golds at the Games during her swimming

Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) chief executive Katie Sadleir has hinted here at the possibility of a staging a future "multi-countries" edition of its flagship multi-sport event in Africa or the Caribbean.

the sport programme should be flexible, and now we only have two compulsory sports in athletics and swimming

The Tunisian National Olympic Committee (CNOT) is set to collaborate with the Tunisian Scouts after a draft agreement was approved by the CNOT Board.

medals at Tokyo 2020 - Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi's taekwondo silver and a shock men's 400 metres freestyle swimming

World Netball President Liz Nicholl has said here that the governing body is pleased that the sport is being discussed as part of Hamilton's bid to stage the 2030 Commonwealth Games, but that it would prefer matches to be staged in the host country Canada.

we know that with all future Commonwealth Games there is a risk for sports other than athletics and swimming

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The huge support for Para-sport competitors at the Birmingham 2022 Games has been "very positive", according to International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Andrew Parsons, but he insists the Paralympics will remain a stand-alone event "for the foreseeable future".

I was at the swimming when the swimmers and Para swimmers were together, and at the 3x3 basketball when

Some events we can have this integrated approach, but if you see the number of athletes for example in swimming

, it is a very limited swimming programme in terms of the number of events and the classes."

Birmingham has been backed to bid for the Olympics with Commonwealth Games champion Ama Agbeze claiming the English city is "ready" to put forward its case to stage the Games.

million ($100million/€83million) Sandwell Aquatics Centre has also been built in time for the Games.The swimming

Air badminton, beach sprint rowing, 3x3 basketball, and surfing have been added to the Bali 2023 World Beach Games sports programme.

The quartet joins core sports open water swimming, beach water polo, beach soccer, beach handball, individual

As the Commonwealth Games are being televised around the world via the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre (NEC), 150 local youngsters are contributing and benefiting from the experience.

and making their main output on BBC 1, so they’re choosing whether to be showing Adam Peaty in the swimming