An administrative error from swimming’s governing body FINA has cost former Alabama swimmer and Greek national swimmer, Kristel Vourna, a trip to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. A talented butterflyer, holding the national record for Greece in both the wmen’s 50-meter and 100-meter butterfly, Vourna was invited to the Games after posting what is considered a “B” cut standard time.

Vourna competed for her home country Greece at the 2012 London Olympic Games in the 100-meter butterfly where she finished 12th overall. The 24-year-old received a formal invitation from FINA on July 6th to compete at her second Olympic Games just to have the invitation retracted eight days later with a statement that she was “actually not qualified and that it was a FINA mistake that had originally led to the invitation.”

After realizing their error FINA issued an apology and invited Vourna to attend the Olympic Games…as a tourist. The angered Olympian responded bitterly, stating, “Unfortunately people’s mistakes are always paid by other people.”

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