Diving-No medal sale as airline steps in to fly Mexican Olympians to worlds


FILE PHOTO: Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Diving - Women's 10m Platform Synchro - Final - Tokyo Aquatics Centre, Tokyo, Japan - July 27, 2021. Gabriela Agundez Garcia of Mexico and Alejandra Orozco Loza of Mexico in action REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's largest airline has offered to fly Olympic divers Alejandra Orozco and Gabriela Agundez to this year's world championships for free after government funding cuts forced them to try to find ways to pay their own passage.

Elite Mexican aquatic athletes have been driven to selling towels and bathing suits among other fund-raising initiatives since government funding was cut in a row over the governance of the Mexican Swimming Federation (FMN).

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