Time To Banish The Art Of Blazers Marking Their Own Homework
It's early days for swimming Integrity Units - there's a long way to go before the system is working as it should, it seems to many in aquatics. AQIU now has before it a submission from the Slovak swim community that makes the eyes water. What happens next will test the entire integrity ecosystem
FORUM - THEMA: A TEST OF INTEGRITY
The Slovak swimming community is fighting for the survival of almost half the clubs in its country. No fewer than 64 of them have been suspended from the state-funded federation that regulates their sport in the country.
A legal challenge has been mounted, and a submission outlining a catalogue of concerns was made to the European Aquatics Integrity Unit, which passed it all on to the global Aquatics Integrity Unit. Some of the key concerns would, sadly, not be unrecognisable among swimming communities worldwide.
So how's the integrity journey going? ...
