At FINA Worlds a lot is happening. So far the Americans are not doing great and Katie Lydecky is sick. The backstroke wedges have been malfunctioning. The big controversy is over Sun Yang who probably shouldn't have been allowed to swim and has been shunned by an Australian swimmer and a British swimmer. Evidently last September he was supposed to give blood and urine samples for doping analysis. Blood was drawn and then he begin questioning the authority of the people obtaining the samples, had one removed, refused to give a urine sample and had someone break the blood sample. FINA gave him rebukes, which seems an underwhelming response. WADA will have a hearing, in September, after Worlds. What do you think?
Yes, a lot is definitely happening outside and around the pool at Worlds. It's disheartening. Organizations like FINA (and the NCAA) are supposed to apply rules impartially and without regard for politics.
If anyone read that last sentence without whooping with laughter I'd be surprised. :)
The way it's supposed to happen isn't the way it's been happening especially with FINA of late and anything regarding doping. I'm not sure how this would change yet it still has to change.
Yes, a lot is definitely happening outside and around the pool at Worlds. It's disheartening. Organizations like FINA (and the NCAA) are supposed to apply rules impartially and without regard for politics.
If anyone read that last sentence without whooping with laughter I'd be surprised. :)
The way it's supposed to happen isn't the way it's been happening especially with FINA of late and anything regarding doping. I'm not sure how this would change yet it still has to change.
