Mark Spitz slams British Swimming's 'foolish' performance review Who are these guys? One of those on the five-man panel was Bob Bowman, the coach who guided Michael Phelps to 22 Olympic medals, his eight titles in 2008 eclipsing Spitz's 1972 record of seven in one Games. The others were Scott - who has since resigned - double Olympic open water medallist Thomas Lurz, Harlequins director of rugby and former national director of the English Institute of Sport and Craig Hunter, ParalympicsGB chef de mission. Adlington was satisfied with her bronze in the 400m freestyle behind Camille Muffat of France and American Allison Schmitt, another of Bowman's charges in Baltimore. Adlington has been vocal in her recent criticism of British Swimming, hitting out after the publication of the review 10 days ago and claiming the swimmers had been ignored. She also questioned why a head coach to replace Dennis Pursley, who had returned to the United States as planned after the Games, had not been appointed. Scott resigned last month after being unable to move to Britain full-time from Australia where his family are based, as was recommended by the review. It means two key roles are now vacant although Mark Perry, head of development, has now been appointed as interim technical leader. Of Adlington, Spitz said: "Are they basing the whole programme on one particular swimmer just because that person had got older? Things work in ebbs and flows. Even Michael Phelps lost at London 2012. He didn't even get a medal in one of the races that he was world record holder in. Look at the whole concept. Statistically if you look at how many British swimmers actually made the finals with potential chances of winning a medal, it was probably 300 or 400 per cent more far more than four years before. The programme was actually stronger. You can't pin your hopes on one girl. Maybe the guys who make these concepts about examining why someone did so terribly should actually get in the water and see how tough it is. It is undoubtedly a time of change for British Swimming although the review found there was no single factor responsible for the team falling short, neither was there anything intrinsically wrong with the programme. There was a call for more dynamic leadership - especially between the March trials and the Games - as well as monitoring of coaches and athlete planning while commercial and media distractions were also noted. Meanwhile, on Wednesday British Swimming announced that former Manchester United director Maurice Watkins had been appointed as its new chairman. Watkins replaces outgoing incumbent Alistair Gray who led the governing body from the end of 2008 into the 2012 Olympics. Watkins will now lead them through the new four-year cycle into the 2016 Olympics and Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.