I found it strange that the article said that they expected 12000 athletes but then Marculescu (head of FINA) said that Riccione was too big"but this isn't going to happen in Kazan","We have to construct a realistic event with a realistic number of athletes".
I think he's correct. Kazan is 800 km east of Moscow. You could say it's in the middle of nowhere for most people.
Not sure I like the idea of the events being concurrent or not. I figure masters are likely to get the shaft and it's going to mean even more people packed into one metropolitan area. Hopefully even though the story says the events will be held "concurrently" what they really mean is "consecutively" like USMS LC Nationals and Olympic Trials last summer in Omaha. I can't see how they'd do it any other way, really.
I found it strange that the article said that they expected 12000 athletes but then Marculescu (head of FINA) said that Riccione was too big"but this isn't going to happen in Kazan","We have to construct a realistic event with a realistic number of athletes".
I think he's correct. Kazan is 800 km east of Moscow. You could say it's in the middle of nowhere for most people.
Not sure I like the idea of the events being concurrent or not. I figure masters are likely to get the shaft and it's going to mean even more people packed into one metropolitan area. Hopefully even though the story says the events will be held "concurrently" what they really mean is "consecutively" like USMS LC Nationals and Olympic Trials last summer in Omaha. I can't see how they'd do it any other way, really.
