World body suspends Mexican federation
ByReuters
Updated 31/01/2016 at 00:13 GMT
Swimming's world governing body FINA announced it had 'temporarily suspended' the Mexican federation on Saturday after the country's decision last year to pull out of hosting the 2017 world championships in Guadalajara.
Best sporting pictures of 2015 - Members of Team Mexico perform in the synchronised swimming team technical final at the Aquatics World Championships in Kazan, Russia July 27, 2015
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The western Mexican city withdrew as host of the two-week event due to financial problems resulting from falling oil prices.
Budapest, the city that had been due to host the 2019 championships, stepped in as a replacement.
Meeting in the Hungarian capital, FINA said the suspension was due to Mexico "not fulfilling contractual obligations concerning the cancellation of the 2017 FINA world championships in Guadalajara."
It did not detail the obligations or say what impact the suspension would have on Mexican swimmers in the lead up to the Rio Olympics in August.
FINA also announced that a company run by former International Olympic Committee director-general Francois Carrard had been appointed to assess and review the body's corporate governance.
Carrard is also head of scandal-plagued world soccer body FIFA's reform committee.
FIFA is facing unprecedented pressure to overhaul its governance and improve transparency after being plunged into the worst crisis in its history with the arrest of officials by American and Swiss authorities probing corruption allegations.
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