The list of athletes with signed contracts to compete at the Energy for Swim 2018 event in Italy has grown to 37, even as FINA has informed federations that the meet is not authorized.
A rule interpretation by FINA has classified the event as an international competition that needs FINA approval, something the event doesn’t have and doesn’t have time to obtain. FINA rules say that athletes could face bans between one and two years for competing in an unauthorized competition.
Meet organizers say contracted athletes will still be paid 50% of their promised appearance money if the meet is cancelled.
In the meantime, the meet has added a number of high-profile stars to its contracted roster. You can see the list below, which now includes world record-holder Adam Peaty, who signed his contract after the FINA intepretation became public.
View the full list below of confirmed athletes so far:
SIGNED CONTRACTS
| Athlete | Nation |
| Adam Peaty | GBR |
| Alexandr Krasnykh | RUS |
| Anastasia Fesikova | RUS |
| Andrew Minakov | RUS |
| Bethany Galat | USA |
| Cameron van der Burgh | RSA |
| Chad Le Clos | RSA |
| Chase Kalisz | USA |
| Danas Rapsys | LTU |
| David Verraszto | HUN |
| Duncan Scott | GBR |
| Emily Seebohm | AUS |
| Femke Heermskerk | NED |
| Georgia Davies | GBR |
| Gunnar Bentz | USA |
| Katie Meili | USA |
| Katinka Hosszu | HUN |
| Kendyl Stewart | USA |
| Kliment Kolesnikov | RUS |
| Kristian Gkolomeev | GRE |
| Laszlo Cseh | HUN |
| Lisa Bratton | USA |
| Maria Ugolkova | RUS |
| Mark Szaranek | GBR |
| Max Litchfield | GBR |
| Mehdy Metella | FRA |
| Michael Andrew | USA |
| Michelle Coleman | SWE |
| Mikhail Romanchuk | UKR |
| Pieter Timmers | BEL |
| Ranomi Kromowidjojo | NED |
| Sarah Sjostrom | SWE |
| Sergey Fesikov | RUS |
| Sergii Shevtsov | UKR |
| Siobhan O’Connor | GBR |
| Tom Shields | USA |
| Veronika Andrusenko | RUS |
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No Italian swimmers signed?
No Asian swimmers. Only 1 from Australia.
Of 37 who signed contract 26 are Europeans.No Germans.
8 (?!) swimmers from USA
7 – RUS
6 – GBR
3 – HUN
2 – (NED, SWE, UKR, RSA)
1 – (GRE, FRA, LTU, BEL & AUS)
Maybe they just didn’t invite Asian swimmers.
The special thing about Italy is that the meet is held by Italian swimming federation. Are they going to protect their own swimmers and let others to stand out taking the consequences?😃
While nobody official with the ISL has confirmed this, what we’ve been hearing out of contacts in Asia is that Asian swimmer were invited, but that their federations have a much tighter control on their athletes, and that’s why we haven’t seen any commit yet. We may if FINA winds up clearing the meet.
Also interesting to see Russian swimmers take more actions than some teams who bashed them all the time.
Federica Pellegrini is slated to race the 200 free
If they all went, this would be quite the collective middle finger… Looking forward to this show down vs FINA!
It would be cool if Micheal Phelps came out of retirement and signed on to this meet
Or if he just did it for fun
the only way Michael phelps is coming out of retirement is to lead the looney toons to compete against the monstars and restore the talent of these athletes committed to participate in this event
seriously this whole story sounds like the plot of space jam