By Emily GoddardFebruary 16 - Two-time Paralympic champion Graham Edmunds has been elected onto the British Swimming Board as the athlete representative.

The 38-year-old represented Britain at Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012 to win two gold medals

in world record times in the 4x100 metres freestyle relay at both the Athens and Beijing Games.Edmunds

summer's Games on home soil and said he is delighted to take up his new role, where he will represent all

My key aim will be to improve the communication process all the way through from athlete to the right

silver in the 4x100m medley relay at that same tournament.He also has two World Championships bronze medals

werewolf design to celebrate his stunning feat at the London 2012 Paralympics that saw him win four gold medals

Paralympics.The performance came shortly after Weir won his sixth London Marathon title in April to equal the record

media lunch by race director Hugh Brasher, who admitted he is looking forward to seeing Weir go for a record

He won the Mini London Marathon seven times in his youth and his six wins in the London Marathon currently

Dave Weir proved one of the stars of the London 2012 Paralympic Games as he stormed to four gold medals

racing helmet.Stevens and his company Rich-Art Concepts cater for individuals and organisations from all

What a year 2012 was for British dressage: two Olympic gold medals followed by the revelation that the

inevitable speculation as to whether the five-time King George VI steeplechase winner might make it all

odds, that he might just amaze us all by pitching up at Rio, I can point to what, if not a precedent

racehorse who got close to top level at an Olympic sport.Mr Frisk won the 1990 Grand National in a record

sheer heart-stopping excitement and wish him well.David Owen worked for 20 years for the Financial Times

By Tom DegunJanuary 13 - Diana Taurasi has been named the 2012 USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year after helping take her side to victory at last year's Olympics in London, completing a remarkable change in her fortunes.

Olympic gold medal.Taurasi averaged 12.4 points a game to guide the United States to an undefeated record

Phoenix Mercury in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), has now won the award three times

Teresa Edwards, who was Team USA Chef de Mission at the London 2012 Olympics, has won the award more times

USA Basketball is very proud to celebrate Diana's accomplishments in 2012 and we are grateful for all

the USA Women's National Team has maintained such excellence and captured five straight Olympic gold medals

By Emily GoddardJanuary 11 - Evgeniya Kanaeva, the most decorated rhythmic gymnast in the history of the discipline, has announced her retirement from competitive competition after she was named as vice-president of the Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation.

The 22-year-old Russian, who is the only rhythmic gymnast to win two individual Olympic all-around titles

gold medals three times consecutively between 2009 and 2011, as well as earning 13 gold medals at the

European Championships – she won all five possible gold medals at the 2009 European Championships in

Baku.She set the record for taking the highest number of gold medals won in a single Rhythmic Gymnastics

World Championships when she took all six titles at Mie in 2009, going on to repeat her unparalleled

By Duncan MackayJanuary 8 - Istanbul today published details of its bid to host the Olympics and Paralympics in 2020, promising a Games set against an "incomparable backdrop" of Europe and Asia, the first time it will have been staged on two continents simultaneously.

lines, Bosphorus crossings and the first phase of what will become the world's largest airport – are all

Paralympics is successful This wide-ranging investment will allow Istanbul to offer athletes average travel times

Istanbul hosted 12 major international sporting events, including the WTA Championships which posted record

Indoor Athletics Championships which was a sell-out and produced Turkey's first ever indoor athletics medals

fileJanuary 2013: Cities bidding for 2020 preparing to hand in Candidature filesDecember 2012: Record

By Duncan MackayJanuary 3 - David Weir has signed a new two-year sponsorship deal with Penta Consulting, a recruitment company based in Wallington, the wheelchair racer's home town in Surrey.

Weir, who won four gold medals at the London 2012 Paralympics, will become a brand ambassador for the

company who were rated as the UK's number one "Giving Something Back" programme by The Sunday Times

over the next two years in the build up to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014 as he competes all

Weir is targeting winning a record seventh Virgin London Marathon title this year and competing in next

at [email protected] storiesDecember 2012: Weir targets London Marathon record

As predicted, it's trebles all round as Sir Brad, Sir Ben, Dame Sarah and virtually the entire cast of

Sailor Ben Ainslie received a knighthood, even though he has less than half the number of gold medals

that dressage rider Lee Pearson has won in the Paralympics Six-times gold-medal wheelchair racing winner

There Irish eyes are definitely not smiling when they scan the record 127-strong list of those about

in Northern Ireland that rowers Peter and Richard Chambers (left and second right), who won silver medals

Not my best ride, actually the first time I've won at the worlds without breaking the world record, but

So LA turned out to be a mixed bag of results, but I did get a full set of medals.

second slower than my Beijing winning time and still some 9/10ths of a second slower than my world record

I made my start just as I have countless times in training, however something was wrong, the gate held

He now has eight Paralympic medals, five of which are gold, from cycling and swimming

By Tom DegunDecember 29 - Bradley Wiggins is among those associated with the sucess of London 2012 rewarded with a knighthood in the Queen's New Year Honours List published today. 

time trial.Sailor Ben Ainslie also receives a knighthood after the 35-year-old from Macclesfield won a record

Paralympic cyclist Sarah Storey will become a Dame after she won four gold medals at London 2012 I can't

believe the number of times we've said this year, 'Oh, can 2012 possibly get any better?'

Ellie Simmonds, equestrian star Charlotte Dujardin and Paralympic equestrian star Sophie Christiansen all

receive an Order of the British Empire (OBE's) after their gold medal winning performances at London 2012.All

UK Sport: "It's all about taking part."

Paralympic boards bore the headline "Mission 2016" – and that mission, it was soon confirmed, involved record

UK Sport have set Team GB the target of winning more medals at Rio 2016 than they did at London 2012

Paralympic medals at the most recent Games cannot realistically be bettered, and that funding will be

He has worked for the Daily Mail, The Times, The Observer, the Sunday Correspondent and The Guardian.

Yet 26-year-old Jenna McCorkell, from Northern Ireland, has just won a record tenth British title in

Jenna McCorkell is a ten-times British figure skating champion Equally, anonymous are Britain's top

When we did the first show in our opening series people started flooding into ice rinks all over the

Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland have little hope of world or Olympic medals But Keith Horton, the association's

Indeed, between 1976 and 1984 ice skaters won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award three times

By Tom Degun November 12 - Eight-time London 2012 Paralympic gold medallist Jacqueline Freney has been crowned the 2012 Australian Paralympian of the Year at a gala awards ceremony in Sydney.

It is an absolute honour, I didn't expect this at all," she said."

All my hard work has finally paid off and to win this award and experience the amazing public support

, both in world record times to earn the honour of being Australia's flag bearer at the London 2012 Closing

2000.Fitzgibbon's strategic sailing skills and Tesch's competitive nature and natural talent were for all

than any other Australian, putting his name in the record books with 13 golds.His five gold, two silver

By Mike RowbottomOctober 26 - British Olympic champions Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis were named Athletes of the Year by the British Athletics Writers' Association (BAWA) at the organisation's 50th annual awards event today.

have picked up British athletics' top prize, and both have now been named Athletes of the Year four times

after winning a bronze medal in London.The 29-year-old west Londoner has now won the men's award more times

than any other athlete, moving ahead of all-time greats Lynn Davies, Sebastian Coe, Linford Christie

and Jonathan Edwards who were all triple winners.Ennis retained the Cliff Temple Award for Female Athlete

, a category introduced by BAWA to mark the success of the 2012 Paralympic Games.Weir won four gold medals

Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah, Greg Rutherford – all delivered as expected at this summer's London Olympics

; Rutherford, indeed, delivered over and above.But the final figure of six medals garnered on home ground

in a different and, dare one say, subtler fashion.Peters' success in moulding the minds of Britain's all-conquering

"He has gone on record as saying his achievements are all about 'boxing the chimp'.

Previously he has worked for the Daily Mail, The Times, The Observer, the Sunday Correspondent and The