Flood of problems for Rome Worlds organizers

ROME: Turning tennis courts into swimming pools is the least of Rome's worries ahead of the World Aquatics Championships next month.

Many facilities are not ready, prosecutors have been probing alleged irregularities at a related project and the organizing committee president threatened to quit after a row with the swimming federation.

"There's no use denying that we've had problems," Domenico Fioravanti, Italy's double breaststroke gold medalist at the Sydney Olympics and a championship sponsor, told Reuters.