Vertical Blue 2022: Athletes Give Up Country Flags To Dive Under One Ocean

Due to fresh geo-political events, there had been several incidents in present competitions where athletes maintain had the nation flags they dive under changed.

Components began with the resolution of organizers to buy away Taiwanese athletes’ nation flags at some level of the 2021 AIDA World Depth Championships, held in Cyprus, ensuing from complaints from Chinese authorities.  With the present war in Ukraine, AIDA was also alive to on banning Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing in competitions dominated by AIDA ideas, such as Vertical Blue.

With the total uncertainty and political complexity in the present local weather, Vertical Blue organizers maintain organized for a One Ocean flag to be displayed at some level of Deans Blue Gap.

Per sources shut to the tournament, right here is “as an example a unified community and exhibit that all of us stand together as freedivers in improve of every and each other, irrespective of geo-political dynamics and/or circulate actors who sadly withhold positions of energy in rather a pair of governments.”

Twenty athletes at Vertical Blue maintain also voluntarily given up their nation flags to “stand in cohesion with international locations which had been assign in an untenable scenario.”

We now maintain confirmed that the 20 athletes are:

1. Fatima Korok (Hungary)
2. Mateusz “Matt” Malina (Poland)
3. Ben Zyons (USA)
4. John Aristizabal (Colombia)
5. William Trubridge (Fresh Zealand)
6. Simon Bennett (Chile)
7. MingChung Huang (Taiwan)
8. Jung A Kim (Korea)
9. Sheena McNally (Canada)
10. Camila Jaber (Mexico)
11. Jani Valdivia (Peru)
12. Stefan Randig (Germany)
13. Yu-Chieh “Jay” Ku (Taiwan)
14. Gary McGrath (Sizable Britain)
15. Junko Kitihama (Japan)
16. Misuzu Okamoto (Japan)
17. Yasuko Ozeki (Japan)
18. Hanako Hirose (Japan)
19. Hiraku Chinomi (Japan)
20. Claire Paris (USA)

This implies the athletes will not maintain their nation flag displaying in outcomes, in the diveye dwell movement, or replays.  It could perchance well perchance also be changed with the One Ocean Flag under.

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