In an article on with Craig Lord on the Swim News website Loughborough's Liam Tancock and fellow world champion Aaron Peirsol, of the US, have called for swimming bosses to adopt a standardised starting block for backstroke specialists who have been discriminated against these past two years.

Serving as spokesmen for concerned leading backstroke specialist the world over, the two men note that they have faced a variety of unfamiliar equipment on arrival at big international events, including the Olympic Games and World Championships, in 2008 and 2009.

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