Swimmers forced to quit open water races
The men’s and women’s 25 kilometre open water races at the World Championships ended with fingers being pointed as high water temperatures forced 14 swimmers to quit during the competition at Jinshan City Beach.
The United States had recommended to their teams they did not even compete because the water was already 30.5 degrees – just 0.5 below FINA’s recommended upper limit – at 6am when they were due to go, even though the start time had been brought forward two hours.
