The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed with finality another appeal by the Philippine Swimming Inc. (PSI) for a stay of execution of a decision by the World Aquatics to withdraw recognition on the PSI.
“The urgent request for a stay of execution of the decision rendered by the FINA [World Aquatics] Bureau on 21 February 2023 filed by the Philippine Swimming Inc. on 24 March 2023 in the matter CAS 2023/A/9489 Philippine Swimming Inc. v. World Aquatics is dismissed,” wrote, Dr. Elisabeth Steiner, deputy president of the CAS Appeals Arbitration Division, in an order dated March 28, 2023.
“The costs of the present Order shall be determined in the final award or in any other final disposition of this arbitration,” the order added.
The CAS’s first dismissal order was stated in a 16-page letter that was a response to the PSI appeal sent to the Lausanne-based sports court last December 20, 2022.
In that first dismissal, the CAS affirmed the World Aquatics’s ordered the creation of a Stabilization Committee to handle the national sports association’s affairs.
In a separate order, the World Aquatics instructed the Stabilization Committee to conduct tryouts for the national team to the Cambodia Southeast Asian Games—an exercise conducted late last month at the New Clark City Aquatics Center.
