She was speaking Friday at the Council on Foreign Relations, where the moderator pointed out that Lagarde was once on France's synchronized swimming team, so she should know a thing or two about how to coordinate with others.

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In the meantime, Fina, Swimming Australia, and ASADA all said they would launch investigations into how information about Thorpe's case came to be leaked to the French newspaper L'Equipe, which first broke the story.

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