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A trio of elite swimmers have filed a lawsuit against FINA in U.S. district court for its threat to sanction any athletes that competed in an International Swim League event. U.S. Olympic gold medalist\u00a0Tom Shields<\/strong>, U.S. National champion\u00a0Michael Andrew\u00a0<\/strong>and Hungarian Olympic gold medalist Katinka Hosszu<\/strong> are all plaintiffs in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

In the lawsuit, “the plaintiffs charge FINA with unlawfully restraining competition in the market for top-tier international swimming competitions.” The San Francisco-based law firms\u00a0Farella Braun + Martel LLP and\u00a0Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP filed the suit. Simultaneously, the two firms filed a separate suit on behalf of the International Swim League, alleging anticompetitive conduct.<\/p>\n

In a press release (copied below), the swimmers and ISL CEO\u00a0Ali Khan\u00a0<\/strong>explain why they are disappointed FINA has moved to block the first professional swim league. They criticize FINA for restricting swimmers’ opportunities to earn additional prize money, as well as FINA’s restrictions on distributing its profits to athletes.<\/p>\n

These complaints echo other recent comments from Olympic gold medalists\u00a0Cate Campbell<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Adam Peaty<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read the full press release<\/a> below. Also check out the full lawsuits from Shields, Andrew and Hosszu<\/a> and from the ISL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A pair of top U.S. swimmers and a top Hungarian swimmer filed a class-action lawsuit today against F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Natation (\u201cFINA\u201d), the international organization that controls access to the Olympic Games and World Championships, over its threats to ban swimmers from the Olympic Games if they compete in events that FINA does not pre-approve.<\/p>\n

On behalf of elite swimmers around the world, the plaintiffs charge FINA with unlawfully restraining competition in the market for top-tier international swimming competitions. Their lawsuit follows FINA\u2019s crackdown against a twoday competition that a new professional league planned to sponsor in Turin, Italy, in late December 2018. Organizers were forced to cancel that meet after FINA said it would ban from the Olympics any swimmer who swam in it. As result, swimmers lost the chance to compete for more prize money and were blocked from earning appearance fees.<\/p>\n

The popularity of competitive swimming has soared over the last decade. Its athletes believe a professional league that will compensate its best athletes and better reward them for a lifetime\u2019s worth of hard training and sacrifice is long overdue. Tom Shields, an Olympic gold medalist who, along with FINA World Champion swimmer Michael Andrew and Olympic gold medalist Katinka Hossz\u00fa, is a lead plaintiff in the proposed class-action lawsuit, said he joined the suit because he has dreamed for years of seeing the sport expand to include a professional league. \u201cWe are closer now than ever before to making that dream come true,\u201d he said. \u201cBut that dream is being blocked by FINA.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a simultaneous filing, the International Swimming League (\u201cISL\u201d) separately sued FINA for its anticompetitive conduct. The ISL was responsible for coordinating the Turin event that FINA blocked, and it has plans to roll out a series of matches in 2019 featuring approximately 300 of the world\u2019s best swimmers. \u201cGoverning bodies and commercial enterprise co-exist in other sports and even work together for the betterment of the sport. But FINA\u2019s priorities just are not aligned with those of the swimmers, and as a result the sport has not been allowed to evolve with the times,\u201d ISL CEO Ali Khan said. \u201cThe ISL deserves a chance to offer swimmers more opportunity to compete and earn a living, and the swimmers deserve not to be shackled to FINA\u2019s whim. And the laws here and in Europe require that ISL has that chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Driven in significant part by swimming\u2019s growing popularity, FINA earned about $118 million in gross revenues from all aquatics events in 2016 and 2017. It paid only 12.5 percent of that amount to athletes in the form of prize money.
\n\u201cVery few select swimmers make a living swimming, while FINA is making a killing,\u201d said Andrew, who in 2013 became the youngest swimmer to go pro. \u201cFINA\u2019s main consideration is not for swimmers. FINA set our sport back into the dark ages by blocking ISL\u2019s request. They can co-exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

To prevent swimmers from participating in non-FINA events, and thereby maintain its control over swimmer-derived revenue, FINA recently rewrote its rules so that it could ban swimmers from competing in events even when they did so in their individual capacity or as part of a team that is not affiliated with any FINA member federation. FINA undertook that action only after the ISL refused to pay FINA a $50 million fee that FINA had demanded as the price for FINA\u2019s approval of ISL events.<\/p>\n

Through that and other measures, FINA effectively makes elite swimmers its world-wide indentured servants who can compete only in FINA events and who can earn only what FINA is willing to pay. FINA\u2019s actions leading to the forced cancellation of the ISL events\u2014initially to be in Las Vegas but which FINA pressure moved to Italy\u2014have been met with universal international condemnation from swimmers. Those actions are now being met with forceful legal challenges, the first to be pursued against FINA\u2019s iron-fisted grip over swimmers\u2019 opportunities. \u201cThere is simply no justification for FINA\u2019s efforts to prevent ISL from expanding opportunities for both swimmers and their millions of fans around the world,\u201d ISL\u2019s Khan said.<\/p>\n

Neither of the two lawsuits challenge FINA\u2019s authority to operate as the gatekeeper of the Olympic Games. Rather, they allege that FINA unlawfully wields that power to prohibit swimmers from participating in non-FINA events or in any events that FINA does not formally approve.<\/p>\n

Katinka Hossz\u00fa, a three-time Olympic gold medalist and seven-time World Champion, said the lawsuit instead seeks to allow swimmers a fighting chance to earn their due. \u201cMy passion has always been to push swimming in the direction where swimmers are partners of the governing body, not just muppets,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cISL takes swimmers seriously, not like FINA.\u201d
\nThe lawsuits state claims for violations of the Sherman Act, for tortious interference with contractual relations or prospective economic relations, for collusion to unreasonably restrict competition, and for monopoly. The lawsuits seek injunctive relief and monetary damages for the named plaintiffs and for all class members.<\/p>\n

The class-action lawsuit is Shields, et al. v. FINA, Case No. 18-cv-07393. ISL\u2019s lawsuit is International Swimming League, Ltd. v. FINA, Case No. 18-cv07394. Both suits are pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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