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Adrian Turner and Hornsby House Kids Welcome Olympic Torch to Wandsworth
Last week Olympian Adrian Turner of Total Swimming’s Make A Splash programme visited Hornsby House Primary school in Wandsworth to celebrate the arrival of the official Lo...
Monday 20 February 2012 at 17:26
Steve Parry and Liverpool Sporting Heroes Celebrate Olympics at Echo Arena
Olympic fever is hitting Liverpool this weekend as some of the city’s top sporting heroes gather together for a special FREE event! The Festival of Olympic Sports will...
Friday 20 January 2012 at 11:53
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BBC Sport Swimming 
Jackson ready for Olympic trials
Olympic bronze medallist Joanne Jackson believes she is getting back to form ahead of the London 2012 trials.
GB end losing water polo streak
Great Britain women's water polo team end losing streak by beating Germany 13-11 at the European Water Polo Championships in Eindhoven.
Leighton praises GB's improvement
Great Britain women's water polo captain Fran Leighton is encouraged by the team's improvement during the European Water Polo Championships.
Telegraph 
London 2012 Olympics: controversial Australian swi
Controversial swimmer Nick D'Arcy could represent Australia in London if he qualifies at national championships in March.
London 2012 Olympics: Aquatics Centre still has th
It may not have attracted the headlines in the same way as the Velodrome but the swimming and diving venue is every bit as impressive.
British coach Alexei Evangulov tells divers not to
Britain's divers have been warned not to be carried away with the home support at this week's Visa World Cup.
British Eurosport 
Disgraced D'Arcy gets green light for London
Swimmer Nick D'Arcy, who was expelled from the Australian team for the Beijing Olympics for assaulting a team mate, has been given the all clear to compete for selection for this year's London Games.
British Swimming deny hosting duties
British Swimming have denied reports they are stepping in to host the 2012 European Championship at the new Olympic pool.
Synchro legend Mengual retires
Spanish synchronised swimmer Gemma Mengual has said she is considering going into coaching after announcing her retirement on Wednesday following a career that made her one of the Iberian nation's most successful athletes.
The Guardian 
London 2012: Australia open door to troubled swimm
• D'Arcy kicked out of Beijing Games for assault on team-mate• Swimmer fined and handed suspended jail sentenceNick D'Arcy, the swimmer who was expelled from the Australian team for the Beijing Olympics for assaulting a team-mate, was given the all clear to compete for selection for this year's London Games on Tuesday.The 24-year-old D'Arcy attacked Commonwealth Games champion Simon Cowley in a Sydney bar in March 2008 causing injuries including a broken jaw, broken nose and broken eye socket. He received a 14-month suspended jail sentence in 2009.When Cowley was awarded A$180,000 [£120,000] in compensation by a civil court last year, however, D'Arcy filed for bankruptcy leading to an outcry and doubts about whether the Australian Olympic Committee would endorse his nomination for the team.Swimming Australia Limited on Tuesday informed the AOC that they were retaining the 200m butterfly specialist in their shadow team."SAL has clearly considered Nick D'Arcy's bankruptcy and advised the AOC they have not changed their endorsement of Nick D'Arcy's shadow team membership," Australia's Chef de Mission for the London Olympics, Nick Green, said in a statement."The AOC Selection Committee decided to be guided by SAL's response on this matter and determined that Nick D'Arcy will retain his membership of the Shadow Team."Accordingly, he is eligible for selection to the Australian Olympic team should he qualify and be nominated by SAL."D'Arcy is Australia's leading 200m butterfly swimmer and set the fastest time in the world so far this year (1:56.90) at the New South Wales championships earlier this month.The Australian Olympic swimming trials take place in Adelaide from March 15-22.Olympics 2012: swimmingSwimmingOlympic Games 2012guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
European Swimming Championships switched from Antw
• Antwerp passes meet to London after budget shortfall• London 2012 Aquatics Centre to host ChampionshipsThe European Swimming Championships will be moved from Antwerp to London because of a budget shortfall.The organising committee said on Thursday that the move was at the instigation of the European Swimming Federation (Len) and the event will now be held at the Olympic swimming facilities.The shortfall was in excess of €400,000 (£330,000), but Antwerp organisers were confident they could have found new sponsors to bridge the gap when Len decided to pull the championships out of Belgium.The event was due to be held from 16-27 May in Antwerp but it is unclear if the dates will remain the same in London.Len could not immediately be reached for comment and British swimming refused to comment pending a Len announcement.SwimmingOlympic Games 2012guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Ellen Gandy: Open water warfare and paddle-boardin
Roast dinners are ill-suited to an Australian summer but a trip to the beach takes the grind out of training• Introducing the Guardian's Olympic diaristsI don't think I'll ever get used to Christmas in Australia. My family always make a point of having a proper British roast dinner on Christmas Day, even when it's 35C [95F] outside. I was sweating while I was eating, it was that hot. But the flip side of being down here at this time of year is that is I spend a lot of my time down at the beach doing outdoor training, which I love.In the last couple of years I've got into doing the open water competitions down the coast. It's just a day at the beach combined with a training session, so I get the best of both worlds. And you get pretty good prizes for winning. This year I won one of the biggest races in Victoria – the Pier to Pub. I got a travel voucher for winning, which I plan to spend when I have a holiday at the end of this year.Open waters are really horrendous to race in. They are completely different to pool swimming because it's really rough and you get hit in the face quite a lot. The Pier to Pub was girls and guys at the same time and the guys are a lot rougher than the girls, I got a few elbows to my face in that race. It's also hard because you can't really see where you're supposed to be going. You have to just pick a landmark in the distance and sort of aim in that direction, which can be difficult with the strong currents and the splash from other people.I like them, despite all that, because they're such a change of pace from being at the pool. There is no pressure on me because I don't really do enough of them to have any sort of profile. It's nice to just be an unknown in a race competing for the fun of it. I also think it helps with my fitness, I just see it as a kind of cross training. I see paddle-boarding the same way. I got a board for Christmas. It's great. I can just paddle around on the nice flat water. It improves my core strength, and it's also just really fun. My dogs have got into it as well and they quite happily sit on the front of my board as I take them out to sea.The Australian State Championships have been going on for a couple of months now, I did the Queensland States in December last year and we just had the Victorian States a few weeks ago. Quite a few high-profile Aussie swimmers were there which made for a good competition.I got to see Ian Thorpe in the flesh for the first time. I still get really star-struck when I meet legends of the sport like Thorpe. It's quite surreal seeing him swimming when I've only ever watched him on TV, and that was years ago when I was little.I was really happy with how I raced at the States and I'm feeling really strong in and out of the water. There is quite a lot of rivalry between the Aussies and the British swimmers. I like being over here because I get to race the best that they have in Australia on quite a regular basis, it's really great to be around these swimmers and to be against them at all the meets so when it comes to racing at the majors I'm ready. I know I can match them.It's a funny feeling that the Olympic trials are so soon. I'm not thinking too much about them, I never think about the trials until I'm in England and I'm about to do them, I find that thinking about them now takes too much emotional energy and nerves. The only time I ever really think about it is when I see an Olympic advert on TV. Though being in Australia there isn't too much advertising for the Olympics. I feel like it's a benefit for me to be out of it and away from all of the pressure. It's been a great sunny summer and I've got a lot done, but now I can't wait to get back to England and race in the Olympic pool at the Olympic trials in March.Olympics 2012: swimmingOlympic Games 2012SwimmingEllen Gandyguardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Sportsbeat 
Inside the Games 
China continue medal dominance at London 2012 divi
By Tom Degun at the Olympic Aquatics Centre in LondonFebruary 21 - China continued to pick up medals on day two of the London 2012 diving test event as the reigning Olympic and world champion Chen Ruolin (pictured) claimed gold in the women's 10 metre platform event here.
Chinese win opening London 2012 diving test event
By Tom Degun at the Olympic Aquatics Centre in London February 20 - The formidable Chinese duo of Qin Kai and Luo Yutong ensured that there were no upsets on day one of the London 2012 diving test event as the reigning world champions claimed an easy victory in the mens 3 metre synchro competition here.
FINA President excited about London 2012 Olympics
By Tom Degun in LondonFebruary 20 - Julio Cesar Maglione, President of the International Swimming Federation (FINA), has expressed his excitement with 250 of the world's best divers, including Britain's teenage sensation Tom Daley, competing at the London 2012 diving test event at the Aquatics Centre on the Olympic Park.
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