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Reasons Why Reform Chief Carrard Might Be Turning In His Grave

Is World Aquatics reform on the rocks? Is it time we asked if the ‘bad old days’ of FINA are not so much over as evolving?

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by Craig Lord
Reasons Why Reform Chief Carrard Might Be Turning In His Grave
 Photo by Aniko Kovacs/World Aquatics from the October ground-breaking ceremony for the new World Aquatics HQ in Budapest

Reform recommendations were approved by FINA leaders in October 2021 more than a year before the sports regulator was rebranded as World Aquatics.

Make Way For The Aquatics Integrity Unit – Reform Committee Report In Full 7+ Years After Sweetenham Led Coaches Call For Change
THEMA, April 2025: As we begin to consider how the World Aquatics reform project is going and how well the Aquatics Integrity Unit is faring, here’s a reminder of what the Reform Committee recommended

Five years on, in a feature related to this week's SOS FORUM for paid subscribers, here are five reasons among many more why the chair of the Reform Committee François Carrard might be turning in his grave.



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by Craig Lord

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