British Swimming has confirmed that water polo and diving groups is not going to be getting into the rearranged 2021 World College Video games.
The choice has been taken because the Worldwide College Sports activities Federation (FISU) has failed to offer assurances that Russian and Belarusian athletes can be faraway from the occasion.
This 12 months’s World College Video games is because of happen in Chengdu, China, between 26 June and seven July.
A British Swimming assertion stated: “British Swimming continues to sentence the atrocities being dedicated on the individuals of Ukraine following the unwarranted declaration of battle by the Russian management, supported by the management in Belarus – and our help for a ban on Russia and Belarus from all aquatics competitors continues.
“On the closing entry date for the World College Video games, we now have not been supplied with assurances from the Worldwide College Sports activities Federation (FISU) that Russian and Belarusian delegations will probably be faraway from the 2022 occasion, which is because of be held in Chengdu, China later this 12 months.
Continued solidarity
“As such, we now have taken the choice to not enter British Diving and British Water Polo groups for this occasion. It is a determination absolutely and collectively supported by British Swimming and all Residence Nations.
“This determination is taken out of our continued solidarity with the individuals and athletes of Ukraine, and with the protection of our athletes, workers and officers on the forefront of our minds.
“Given the congested nature of the 2022 swimming calendar, the choice had already been made, previous to the battle in Ukraine, that Britain wouldn’t be sending a swimming crew to this 12 months’s World College Video games
“We’d additionally prefer to acknowledge BUCS and their communication, efforts and endeavour to help British Swimming and the Residence Nations all through this course of.
“We sit up for working collectively for future Video games.”
