{"id":27001,"date":"2011-04-15T13:46:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T18:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/uncategorized\/2011\/04\/fina-admits-to-lack-of-safety-measures-in-fran-crippens-death-releases-set-of-recommendations\/"},"modified":"2014-07-28T23:05:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T06:05:30","slug":"fina-admits-to-lack-of-safety-measures-in-fran-crippens-death-releases-set-of-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/fina-admits-to-lack-of-safety-measures-in-fran-crippens-death-releases-set-of-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"FINA Admits to Lack of Safety Measures in Fran Crippen&#8217;s Death; Releases Set of Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAUSANNE, Switzerland, April 15.  SHORTLY after coming under <a href=http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/lane9\/news\/26990.asp target=_blank>heavy fire<\/a> from U.S. Open Water Review Commission Chair Dick Pound for a lack of cooperation, the FINA Task Force appointed to investigate Fran Crippen&#39;s death on Oct. 23, 2010 has come forward with its findings.<\/p>\n<p>First, FINA&#39;s Task Force hedged its bets regarding Crippen&#39;s actual cause of death by alluding to a &quot;potential (although not proven) existence of cardiac abnormality and the possible occurrence of uncontrolled exercise-induced asthma in unfavorable race environmental conditions.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Task Force did, however, state that &quot;many safety measures were not adequately addressed at the Fujairah event.&quot;  The Task Force went more in-depth later in its report stating that &quot;safety measures were not addressed or properly implemented at the Fujairah Event by the Organizing Committee and the FINA representative.&quot;  The Task Force did attempt to leave some room for interpretation stating that &quot;overriding all these factors are the Open Water Swimming safety Rules and Regulations that in some instances are too vague, leaving room for interpretation.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Task Force further stated that &quot;inadequate surveillance and safety measures made it difficult, and at times impossible, to recognize and act upon an athlete in distress.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Task Force also produced several pages of recommendations moving forward that include medical clearance of athletes, transponders and GPS technology as well as a allowed temperature range of 18 degrees Celsius (64.4 degrees Fahreinheit) to 28 degrees Celsius (82.4 degrees Fahreinheit).  The Task Force recommendation on a maximum temperature is actually lower than 31 degrees Celsius (87.8 degrees Fahreinheit) suggested by the U.S. Commission.<\/p>\n<p><i>Swimming World<\/i> contacted Richard Shoulberg, longtime coach to Fran Crippen, today about the report. &quot;I&#39;m ecstatic that they&#39;re making progress and not waiting for Shanghai (the site of the world championships, where the FINA Congress planned to meet next on this issue). A lot of great things are happening now, however overdue. But that&#39;s how the world works. It will never bring back Fran, but our goal was to make the sport safe. I&#39;m happy they are making progress.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In relation to the report&#39;s recommendations on the water temperature limits, Shoulberg said, &quot;This new recommendation puts into question whether Shanghai will be able to meet those standards.&quot; Shoulberg alluded to the possibility that the site of the open water races at the world championships &quot;might be a hot environment,&quot; especially compared to London, which will be much colder in relation to Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>Shoulberg went on to suggest that the world championships needs to mirror the same conditions as the site of the following year&#39;s Olympic 10K race.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#39;m hoping the (USA Swimming) open water commission will reconsider its maximum open water temperature to come more in line with FINA&#39;s,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>For a complete run-down on the eight-part Task Force report, click <a href=http:\/\/www.fina.org\/H2O\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=2062:fina-task-force-report&#038;catid=288:special&#038;Itemid=179 target=_blank>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAUSANNE, Switzerland, April 15. 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