Rebecca Adlington has announced her retirement from competitive swimming. The 23-year-old under-performed at the London 2012 Olympics as she took b...

British Swimming has vowed to step up its performance in response to a cut in Swimming funding announced by UK Sport. Swimming was the major casual...

Apparently some badminton doubles players have been throwing matches so that they could finish in their desired place within the chosen group. Two pairs played against each other trying to lose with no subtlety whatsoever, taking it in turns to serve in to the net several times. The Badminton Federation consequently disqualified offending teams and players.

Rebecca Adlington failed to repeat the heroics of Beijing in front of her home crowd, finishing third in the 800m freestyle at the Aquatic Centre on F...

For years the BBC's voice of swimming was the unfortunately named Hamilton Bland, whose TV career ended in controversy in the late 90s. There's nothing bland about his successors, former Olympians Adrian Moorhouse and Andy Jameson, who sounded as though they'd swallowed several gallons of Red Bull as they jabbered their way through last night's pool action at London 2012.

Rebecca Adlington has won a bronze medal in the women's 400m freestyle swimming at the Olympic Games. The British swimmer was tipped to have a tou...

After the anti-climax of day one, Britain hoped for more success on day two, with and Rebecca Adlington took hope bronze at the Aquatic Centre and whi...

Young swimmers hoping to follow in the footsteps of their local heroine were hard at training at Rebecca Adlington's former pool this morning ahead of...

Two of Britain's golden girls will bid to get the country off the starting blocks in the hunt for Olympic medals. Swimmer Rebecca Adlington's atte...

Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington has vowed to avoid the internet during the London 2012 Games after being taunted over her looks and personality by ...