A ban on the cap worn by Team GB's first black female Olympic swimmer is being reconsidered. Alice Dearing, 24, had previously been told the headgear designed to fit over dreadlocks, braids and Afros could not be worn at the Olympics because it did not fit 'the natural form of the head'. But the International Swimming Federation (FINA) is now reconsidering the ban after experts asked how it could possibly enhance performance, The Times reports. Ms Dearing had written on the Soul Cap website: 'People used to tell me my hair was ''too big'' for the cap — never that the cap was too small for my hair.'