IOC Gives FINA Thumbs Down on New Olympic Events

LAUSANNE - The IOC has turned down FINA's request to expand the schedule of swimming events in Athens. FINA had requested that they be permitted to add 50m sprint events for all strokes in Athens and also to add Open Water swimming events to the schedule.

These requests were turned down and in fact the IOC has issue a new lower quota for the number of swimmers permitted to participate in Athens. The list of participants in Sydney was 1,448. In Athens this has been lowered to a maximum of 1,300.