National ruling physique Swim England has apologised and private an essay from a website that suggested how women could demeanour slimmer in a pool.

The square suggested that women with a “jiggly belly” should equivocate wearing bikinis, and pronounced being pear-shaped has “often been a disease of women”.

The essay had been on a website given 2010, though was private after Simone Webb highlighted some of a calm in a thread on Twitter.

A Swim England orator told BBC Sport: “This was an aged web page from 2010 that does not paint a views of Swim England. As shortly as a essay was brought to a courtesy we private a page and are in a routine of replacing it with some-more suitable information.

“Swimming is one of a many permitted activities for people of all ages and abilities. We wish everybody to feel gentle in a H2O so they can take advantage of a many advantages swimming has to offer.

“We apologize for any corruption this aged information might have caused and wish this won’t deter people from stability to suffer a water.”

The Swim England website has published a new guide.