![]() This major gathering will elect the new FINA Bureau, FINA Audit Committee and FINA Ethics Panel for the period 2021-2025. The FINA Bureau also approved the FINA Financial Statements for 20, to be further discussed by the FINA Congress on June 5, 2021. Both are part of the FINA staff for over 20 years. Moreover, Mr Pedro Adrega, presently Head of FINA Communications Department, assumes the role of FINA Interim Deputy Executive Director. It was also decided that an interim solution will be implemented from Mawith Mrs Marcela Saxlund Medvedev, until now FINA Deputy Executive Director, being nominated as FINA Interim Executive Director. The FINA Bureau members recognised the outstanding devotion and role of Mr Marculescu in the development of Aquatics in the five continents, contributing to make our Sport a pillar of the Olympic Movement. The FINA Bureau met today online for its first 2021 gathering, and accepted the resignation of Mr Cornel Marculescu, FINA Executive Director for the past 35 years. ![]() Update: FINA has confirmed the SOS story broken this morning and has accepted the resignation of Cornel Marculescu and issued the following statement shortly before 6pm Central European time: FINA Accepts Resignation & Makes Saxlund Temporary Boss, Communications Man Pedro Adrega No2 The ruling Bureau discussed the matter when it met in online session today and after that gathering confirmed the story broken by SOS this morning. He also states that he would leave in May (events after we broke this news decelerated his departure). SOS has had it confirmed that Marculescu, a Romanian and polyglot who has navigated the politics of Olympic sport and drawn financial benefits and controversy to FINA, recommended in a resignation letter sent on March 1 to the federation’s leadership that his deputy director, Marcela Saxlund Medvedev, takes on the top job. Exclusive: Cornel Marculescu, the executive director of FINA who turns 80 this year, has stepped down from his role as the boss of the international swimming federation after 35 years with a hope that the the keys will be handed over to his assistant of the past three decades. ![]()
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