FORUM: On Where The China Crisis Came From - The Part Fick, DeBreda Handley & More Played In Swim History
In this week's FORUM, our Thema tees up a trawl back to the beginning of swimming's China Crisis; beyond our Timeline of World marks set in March through history, our candidate for the Director's Cut in our History of Swimming in 100 People and Objects is a coach, mentor, author, entrepreneur +
This week's Forum includes a trawl looks at World records set in the first week of March through history, among the entries one relevant to this week's short Thema before we pick up our China Diaries by going back to the beginning of a doping-soaked era and the accompanying harm to athletes in events highly relevant to the crisis of confidence in the World Anti-Doping Agency sparked by 28 positive tests at a gathering of China's elite swimmers and how it was all handled, 2021-2024.
That story, despite the relative silence of late, is not yet done: red threads don't fade just because officialdom slaps 'case closed' on the file.
We end this week's forum with a prime candidate for our Director's Cut In the SOS History of Swimming in 100 Series - Objects and People, for starters (not the same list): Louis deBreda Handley.
