The Mexican Swimming Federation (fmn) went through difficult times, since the affiliated athletes did not receive their scholarships by the National Commission for Physical Culture and Sport (conade), leadered by Ana Gabriela Guevara.
A month ago it was announced that Nuria Diosdado and Joana Jiménez had been victims of Conade’s monetary cut.
Given the lack of support from Conade, the team led by Diosdado found it necessary to sell swimsuits and towels to meet their expenses towards the Paris 2024 competition.
Nuria Diosdado, Mexican athlete, represented Mexico in Tokyo 2020, as captain of the artistic swimming team. Before, she obtained 18th place in London 2012 and 11th in Rio 2016. She was a silver medalist at the Lima 2019 and Toronto 2015 Pan American Games. She also obtained the gold medal at the Mayagüez 2010 Central American Games in multiple categories. Seven gold medals where the Mexican flag waved at the top.
According to Diosdado, in 2021 the scholarships were stopped due to the process experienced by the former president of the Mexican Swimming Federation (FMN)Kiril Todorov, when accused by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) for the crime of embezzlement Faced with this situation, the International Swimming Federation stopped recognizing the manager as an authority on water sports in Mexico, according to media reports.
Prosecutor’s Office will continue investigation of former FMN president
Kirill Todorovformer president of the Mexican Swimming Federation (FMN)was again linked to the process by a judge for the crime of embezzlement, at the end of a hearing that lasted 20 hours on Friday, May 5, 2023.
The ex-director’s defense failed to try to prevent the Attorney General of Mexico continue an investigation into Todorov, who is accused of embezzling some $8.7 million that the fmn received from the state.
The audience began last Thursday and upon arrival, Todorovignored by the World Aquatics as president of the fmn Since January 2022, he has claimed to be innocent of the crime for which he is accused.
“I come to only one thing, to clarify the facts. There was never a diversion from the millions that they are fantasizing about, but from no penny,” he said.
Despite this, a federal judge decided that he should continue his process in freedom and gave a period of six months to gather more evidence.
Todorov has been left with almost no support since the World Aquatics He took away the recognition and replaced it with an emerging committee that has been in charge of organizing Mexico’s swimming qualifiers for international competitions.
He former federation appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport the determination of the international body, however the highest sports legal body in the world rejected the challenge and confirmed the sanction of the World Aquatics.
The only support left for Todorov is the olympic medalist Ana Guevaradirector of the National Commission for Physical Culture and Sportwho has said that as long as some Mexican authority does not declare him guilty of any crime, it will continue to recognize him as president of the FMN.
As part of the protection that Guevera, the Mexican government’s representative in sports, has given Todorov, he has cut financial support for water sports competitors, some of whom, like the artistic swimming team, have had to sell bathing suits to finance their preparation.
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