Rebecca Adlington believes that Ellie Simmonds’ ‘truly amazing’ achievements deserve to win her the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.

After conquering the pool, Rebecca Adlington has turned her attentions to two wheels, warming up for her 280-mile charity bike ride.

Rebecca Adlington takes the bronze medal as 15-year-old American Katie Ledecky took the women’s 800m freestyle Olympic title. With two golds from Beijing and now two bronze medals from London, Adlington becomes Britain’s most successful female swimmer.

Swimming is one of the easiest Olympic sports to understand with races in the pool being conducted over the middle eight lanes of a 50 metre long pool and including a variety of distances, from 50m (one...

Sportsister’s March cover girl Rebecca Adlington has secured her spot in the British Olympic team with a brilliant performance in the 400m freestyle at the British Swimming Championships yesterday. Joining her are Jo Jackson (400m free), Ellen...

Britain’s World Champions Rebecca Adlington and Ellie Simmonds are confirmed among a cast of hundreds of swimmers who will dictate the drama of the British Gas Swimming Championships 2012 at the London Aquatics Centre next month. Entries...