International swimming federation FINA voted to re-brand ‘World Aquatics’ at its Extraordinary General Congress in Melbourne on Monday.
Fédération Internationale de Natación – French for International Federation of Swimming – was the official identify of the governing physique courting again to 1908.
FINA president Hussein Al-Musallam mentioned the transfer would unite all aquatic athletes “under one brand” for the primary time.
“We need a name that reflects the entire FINA family, a name that can be used with pride by our artistic swimmers, divers, high divers, open water swimmers and our water polo athletes,” he mentioned. Told.
FINA delegates additionally voted to undertake a brand new structure, which incorporates the creation of an unbiased Aquatics Integrity Unit to develop into operational from January 1, 2023, amongst different reforms.
Membership of the federation’s govt bureau will now be topic to an age restrict of 75, seven years after former president Julio Maglione abolished the earlier limits, permitting him to run for a 3rd time period in 2017.
The presidential time period restrict will now additionally match the Olympic Charter of the International Olympic Committee, which has a time period of eight years, renewable as soon as for 4 years.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
