First Vice-President of the Russian Synchronized Swimming Federation Olga Brusnikina said Russian representatives will be able to vote on draft new rules in the sport, despite the lack of a seat on the technical committee of the International Swimming Federation (FINA).
For the first time in 26 years, there will be no Russian representative on the Synchronized Swimming Technical Committee. None of the Russians joined FINA’s technical committees after the organization’s board meeting.
– Olga, our representatives are not in the technical committee, but there is a vote for new rules. Can we participate?
“The technical congress delegates will vote for them, and I hope our federation will be represented at this congress,” Brusnikina told .
– Was there any reason to hope that the Russians would still get places on the FINA technical committees?
– In principle, I was ready for such a decision as today, knowing what is happening in other international federations, where Russian specialists are not favored. It was planned, I understood that such a situation was possible.
I was surprised that the technical committee had changed quite dramatically – only six people remained from the previous composition. I was surprised that there was no representative from Ukraine, because they were with us in one of the innovation groups, they did a lot of work. The vice-president was a man (Steve Chew – approx.). Everyone knows him as a judge, but he was not a member of the previous technical committee.
To a greater extent, the people are all familiar, but there are also those that I don’t know very well precisely as synchronized swimming specialists. I wish the new composition of the technical committee fruitful work, to make our sport better, more popular, more meaningful. There is a lot of work to be done if the technical congress adopts the draft regulations.
I am happy for my colleague who replaced me as honorary secretary, Ana Montero. She had never come to the technical committee before, but she was very active in the innovation committee for the preparation of the new rules. He is a person known and respected by the whole world.
Source : MatchTV
