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Repeat of swim gear fiasco averted

SINGAPORE — The swim cap mix-up that marred Joseph Schooling’s Olympic Games debut in 2012 has resurfaced at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

SINGAPORE — The swim cap mix-up that marred Joseph Schooling’s Olympic Games debut in 2012 has resurfaced at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

TODAY has learnt that Singapore’s 11-member swim team would not have been able to compete in their original competition swim caps due to an administrative lapse.

While the size of the brand logo (20 sq cm) on their caps meets FINA rules, it exceeds the 6 sq cm limit imposed by the Commonwealth Games Federation on competition head gear.

The mix-up has been resolved after Speedo United Kingdom and Games organisers stepped in to provide the team with approved caps for the competition, which starts today.

Singapore Swimming Association president Lee Kok Choy called this incident “unacceptable”.

“We will conduct an internal inquiry to determine what transpired, and to take the appropriate steps to ensure that this doesn’t happen again,” he said.

At the 2012 London Games, a hiccup saw Schooling informed by an official minutes before his 200m butterfly heat that his TYR cap and goggles were not on the list of approved equipment.

A shaken Schooling completed the race well off his personal best.

A four-man panel of inquiry was set up after the Olympics to look into the incident.

At the last edition of these Games in New Delhi, a miscalculation by coach Ang Peng Siong resulted in the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay team being disqualified from the final after arriving late at the competition venue.

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