USA Swimming has decided to team up with U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart. The man who brought down Lance Armstrong will join former USA Swimming president Jim Wood for a meeting next month with FINA executive director Cornel Marculescu in Lausanne, Switzerland. This meeting will be held to check in on anti-doping actions of swimming's governing body.
2. USA Swimming has decided to team up with U.S.
Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart. The man
who brought down Lance Armstrong will join former
USA Swimming president Jim Wood for a meeting
next month with FINA executive director Cornel
Marculescu in Lausanne, Switzerland. This meeting
will be held to check in on anti-doping actions of
swimming's governing body.
The concern lies with the way doping cases of
Australia's Kylie Palmer, China's Sun Yang, and
Russia's Yuliya Efimova were handled.
3. USA Swimming is keen to ensure that the likes of Katie Ledecky
and Michael Phelps compete against only clean athletes at the
2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
USA Swimming executive director Chuck Wielgus said this is an
effort to see if we can understand what's going on and maybe
why certain decisions were made the way they were. Wielgus
added USA Swimming has been extremely supportive of FINA's
leadership and also remarked the FINA executive director was
very quick to agree to a meeting so we were very pleased by that
and we saw that as a very positive response.
Wielgus added we want clean competition and ensure that the
water is clean for open water swimmers. He however added that
quality of water will not be discussed in the meeting with the
FINA executive director.
