World Aquatics
World Aquatics, formerly known as FINA, is the international governing body for the sport of aquatics, based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It oversees competition in six aquatic sports (swimming, diving, high diving, artistic swimming, water polo, and open water swimming) and organizes world championships and other international events.www.worldaquatics.org
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Nov 9, 2026
Hunter ArmstrongGUEST
Being that I did retire from the conventional side of the sport, I do have restrictions in what I can compete in.
Hunter ArmstrongGUEST
Um, so I can't go to anything national or international without letting, um, world aquatics and USA swimming USADA water, all of the branches.
Hunter ArmstrongGUEST
I have to let them know six months in advance before I come back so they can put me back in the testing pool.
Hunter ArmstrongGUEST
Um, but that's pretty much it.
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Hunter ArmstrongGUEST
I have to save the restaurants.
Hunter ArmstrongGUEST
I have to save the receipts.
Hunter ArmstrongGUEST
I have to take pictures, document everything that goes in my body because World Aquatics runs a strict liability.
Hunter ArmstrongGUEST
I'm responsible for everything that goes on or in me.
Mel StewartHOST
And no one has been able to crack this for two decades with a goggle that is truly comfortable, doesn't impede your experience, and you can wear in competition.
Mel StewartHOST
It's World Aquatics approved.
Mel StewartHOST
And there's no subscription price.
Mel StewartHOST
So it's like frictionless.
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Mel StewartHOST
It can't interfere with the experience.
Mel StewartHOST
We could write the biggest memoir of 2026 based on that and through the release of this technology.
Mel StewartHOST
A huge, huge, huge deal is that somehow the powers of Pentland and Speedo worked with World Aquatics and we are now in the world where you are race ready.
Mel StewartHOST
This technology is approved by the International Federation For people who are unaware, even people who have been in the sport their entire lives, there's the International Olympic Committee, which does not govern swimming.
Jill JaraczHOST
So according to Swim Swam, the pool, which is an outdoor facility, it's getting to be like 32 to 33 degrees Celsius in the water, which is 89 to 91 degrees Fahrenheit.
Jill JaraczHOST
And World Aquatics rules, because they are the ones running the show here, they state that water temps should be 25 to 28 degrees Celsius.
Jill JaraczHOST
That's a big difference.
Alison BrownHOST
That's not a degree.
Riccardo BallHOST
So what happens for the court of arbitration for sport if all the teams go, well, you can tell us we have to play them, but if we don't turn up, what are you going to do? Because it looks like nobody's going to play the Russians.
Alex ChapmanHOST
Yeah, and this is very much a case-by-case basis for some sports we saw with World Aquatics reinstated Russia earlier this year.
Alex ChapmanHOST
There's been... with all due respect to some other minor sports that have as well.
Alex ChapmanHOST
It's an ongoing discussion with World Athletics.
Cate CampbellHOST
Anyway, I don't know how that works.
Cate CampbellHOST
But World Aquatics has that as well.
Cate CampbellHOST
So that governs all the aquatic sports.
Cate CampbellHOST
So swimming, diving, water polo, synchronized swimming,
Adrian TobinGUEST
Uncle Toby's even back in those days when it was Ironman racing lasted no longer than 10 years.
Adrian TobinGUEST
We then went about the business of connecting with swimming, you World Aquatics, Swimming Australia, Athletics, Athletics Australia, World Athletics, Paddle Worldwide, Paddle Australia and International Life Saving and Surf Life Saving Australia and working with them and presenting that we wanted to disrupt the system, disrupt the sectors, but we wanted to do it in a way that was coordinated with them that took advantage of the amazing legacies that they had but curated a pure entertainment product that has been designed specifically to engage fans and something that many of them have tried but have been unable to crack.
Scott KeenanHOST
And I'm interested in that because, I mean, that's a lot of different stakeholders that you're trying to communicate with and get on side.
Scott KeenanHOST
And trust is so important when you're building something new like this.
speaker_0HOST
We'll see that drama unfold if it comes up later on.
speaker_0HOST
The only other weird wrinkle when it comes to qualification is that World Aquatics has a wildcard qualifying system from the World Cup.
speaker_0HOST
And there are a few American swimmers that did qualify already through that.
speaker_0HOST
Those swimmers are Luke Barr, Carson Foster, and then according to Swim Slam, either Shane Costas or Anna Poplowski.
speaker_0HOST
They said they reached out to World Aquatics for comment, didn't get here anything back from them.
speaker_0HOST
But Poplowski is entered at this meet where Shane Costas is not.
speaker_0HOST
So that might be a hint that he got the wildcard spot.
Coleman HodgesHOST
Next event, women's 400 free.
Coleman HodgesHOST
You've got Anna Poplowski, who, again, we think has earned that third World Aquatics wildcard spot, so...
Coleman HodgesHOST
According to what we know, she should be pre-qualified to compete at, in Beijing, but she's racing at us trials regardless.
Coleman HodgesHOST
Um, alongside her, you've got Claire Weinstein and Riley Erisman entered in this event too.
ScottHOST
Mm-hmm.
ScottHOST
We are swapped over from the World Aquatics rankings based on our algorithm.
ScottHOST
So Igor Kornev gets number one.
ScottHOST
He's the highest, obviously, new entry.
ScottHOST
And Peter Curtsy is number two.
ScottHOST
I'd be interested to see if people agree with us disagreeing with how World Aquatics calculate their points.
ScottHOST
From our calculations, I think Kornev's 50... fly world record his 50 yeah so did curtsy i think his 50 no did he hit two world records it might just been the one i think his 50 yeah i think it's 50 fly so cornev's 50 fly was 0.4 faster than the world record and curtsy's 50 back was 0.3 faster than the world record that was essentially the difference one one tenth of a second
DanHOST
Yeah, it's mental, isn't it? I think this is the correct way around.
Angus CookHOST
Okay, so leading on from the news, we actually do have a little bit more news, which is very, very relevant to today's episode.
Angus CookHOST
So Peter Curzia, who is the main focus of today's episode, was in the news recently because of the swimming world championships with World Aquatics.
Angus CookHOST
He won the 100 meter backstroke, so he's world champion in 2025 for that.
Angus CookHOST
He has a world championship silver in the 50 meters and the 200 meter backstroke.
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