{"id":22617,"date":"2021-07-20T11:38:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T06:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=128153"},"modified":"2021-07-20T11:38:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T06:08:25","slug":"tokyo-olympics-six-polish-swimmers-have-returned-from-japan-due-to-an-administrative-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/olympics\/tokyo-olympics-six-polish-swimmers-have-returned-from-japan-due-to-an-administrative-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics: Six Polish swimmers have returned from Japan due to an administrative error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six Polish swimmers were forced to return from Japan before the commencement of the Olympics due to an administrative blunder by the Polish Swimming Federation (PZP). <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">On Sunday, the swimmers returned to Poland, threatening legal action, and called for the PZP\u2019s head to resign in the wake of the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There were 23 people on the swimming team that was sent to Japan. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cI would like to express my great regret, sadness, and bitterness at the situation,\u201d PZP director Pawel Slominski said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Slominski agreed to make a mistake, but claimed it was motivated by a desire to help others \u201callow as many athletes and coaches as possible to take part\u201d. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Alicja Tchorz, one of the six, posted a Facebook post criticising the PZP\u2019s \u201cincompetence,\u201d saying they had \u201cmisunderstood the rules.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine that you sacrifice five years of your life and\u2026 your sacrifice results in a total flop,\u201d Tchorz, who competed in the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, stated.<\/p>\n<p>Mateusz Chowaniec, another of the six, wrote on Instagram: \u201cThis is an absurd situation that should never have happened.\u201d <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">The PZP president was urged by Poland\u2019s culture and sports ministry to \u201cquickly submit explanations\u201d on the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were 23 people on the swimming team that was sent to Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":42803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1791,1891,191,638],"class_list":["post-22617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-athletes","tag-olympic","tag-poland","tag-tokyo-olympics"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}