Contributions are welcome.
Now for the rumours behind the news. What encouraging news it was to hear that two steel girders collapsed at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Centre late last month. The girders were part of a construction meant to support a roof extension over the Olympic pool and apparently weighed about 4 metric tonnes each. The brick award goes to the French Swimming Federation for a monstrous oversight at the 1996 Paris World Cup. It was confirmed in late March that Russian butterfly star Denis Pankratov's world record times cannot be recognized as world records nor listed in the FINA world rankings as no doping control was carried out.