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British Swimming and Swimming Championships 2016 Ltd (SC2016) issued a statement<\/a>\u00a0back in November of 2016 to express their regret and apology for issues experienced last year at the European Masters Swimming Championships held in the London Aquatic Centre between 25th and 29th of May, 2016. \u00a0The meet was considered a fiasco due mainly to poor planning, logistics, staging and execution. \u00a0Many thought that the meet host put profit over protocol.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to July of 2017 and you will find that tempers have not simmered even though efforts have been made by Great Britain’s Technical Committee<\/a> and the resignation of David Sparkes<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Chief Executive, British Swimming Ltd. \u00a0Additional concerns have been raised over alleged cronyism<\/a> in choice of representation on a FINA level.<\/p>\n

Recently, leaders in the British Masters swimming community have issued an Open Letter expressing serious concerns:<\/p>\n

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Open letter to Maurice Watkins, Chairman of British Swimming, and the other Board members of British Swimming<\/span><\/h4>\n

Dear Mr Watkins and other members of the British Swimming Board,<\/span><\/p>\n

We are a group of Masters swimmers who have significant involvement in the administration of our sport and\/or who have had major international success in Masters swimming. Several of us formerly competed internationally at elite level.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are writing this open letter to express our serious concerns over governance in British Swimming and over the contemptuous and sometimes bullying manner with which the Board has treated our community. Most recently we have seen this in your decision to nominate a former Board member to FINA in total disregard of the wishes of stakeholders.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The immediate background, as you know, is the contribution of poor governance in British Swimming to the failure of the Masters event at the London European Aquatics Championships 2016 (although many of us had significant concerns over governance of swimming long before then). This event, as evidenced by a YouGov survey, was a disaster for competitors, described as a fiasco, shambles and the worst-organized Masters event ever.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, the Championships overall were a commercial failure, resulting in significant financial losses for British Swimming and UK Sport. Several hundred thousand pounds of these losses resulted from issues connected with the Masters event which might have been avoided by stakeholder engagement.<\/span><\/p>\n

As you also know, the event resulted in a legal settlement in Autumn 2016 over competitors\u2019 claims of breach of contract and gender discrimination. In this settlement competitors sought, and obtained, not individual compensation but an apology to the community and governance reforms, including reinstatement of our representation and a Masters budget.<\/span><\/p>\n

Related to that settlement, British Swimming also made certain assurances over future governance. You asked the community to overlook past failures and to \u201clook forward\u201d, based on these assurances. However, in the subsequent nine months we have been gravely disappointed<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The open letter highlights our serious concerns over the governance and behavior\u00a0of British Swimming in relation to Master Swimming affairs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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  1. A call to British Swimming to withdraw its nomination to FINA of one of its own former Board members (Simon Rothwell), made without following the proper procedure and against the wishes of stakeholders;<\/li>\n
  2. A call to address issues of gender discrimination, in accordance with a promise to do so in a public apology issued nine months ago but still not acted on (arising out of\u00a0the legal settlement with competitors over the 2016 European Aquatics Championships);<\/li>\n
  3. A call to address a culture of lack of responsiveness, contempt and bullying behavior towards stakeholders who have sought to raise their concerns.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Read Open Letter From Concerned British Masters Swimmers And Administrators<\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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