The credibility of Olympic swimming, already suffering from spats and doping scandals, "has been further damaged by serious discrepancies in the entry times of a number of competitors," according to Andy Bull of the London GUARDIAN. The Olympic entry lists "show many of the swimmers competing in Rio achieved their entry times at the World Aquatics Championships in Kazan in August 2015." In nine cases "the entry times listed do not match the times recorded at those championships." Another eight "are listed as having achieved entry times in events in which they did not compete or were disqualified from." The Int'l Swimming Federation (FINA) said that "the mistakes were made by the Rio Organising Committee when they were compiling the entry lists." The organizing committee, although it declined to make a comment, said that ultimate responsibility lies with FINA, "whose technical committee, according to the ROC, signed off on all times at a meeting last week." Neither body "feels the credibility of the event has been affected." Last August, the Mexican swimming federation admitted that "it had faked many of its squad’s entry times for those same championships in Kazan." World Swimming Coaches Association Exec Dir John Leonard said, "FINA clearly does not care about veracity in entry times to its events as it allowed the Mexican delegation to submit false entry times to the world championships with no penalty" (GUARDIAN, 8/10).
