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The darling of Shiny and Lying Klaus, who lost 50:51 and still became UIPM president
Modern Pentathlon has the boss it deserves, after a strange election that fits the location of Riyadh perfectly: US-American Robert Stull, previously known for some dubious business practices, was "elected" president with the support of SG Shiny Fang and Frequent Traveller Monarch Klaus Schormann.
Pentathlon leadership in the sights of law enforcement authorities
Welcome to the UIPM congress! Decades of dubious Olympic deals in World Pentathlon could have serious legal consequences: an explosive secret report about the machinations of UIPM executives is being examined by criminal authorities, tax investigators and anti-corruption units in several countries.
Usmanov's important confidant in fencing, feared by many: Vitaly Logvin, a Soviet-Uzbek-Mexican string-puller
He is the oligarch's all-purpose weapon in the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (FIE). His CV is at least as interesting and controversial as his reputation. You must get to know Vitaly Logvin Grechuhin, shortly before FIE's election congress in his and Alisher Usmanov's hometown of Tashkent.
9 November 1989: what the opportunists and perpetrators of corrupt Olympic systems must learn from the fall of the Berlin Wall
On this anniversary, the executives and employees of the IOC, World Aquatics, Fencing, Triathlon, Pentathlon and many other suspiciously opaque organisations – along with their servile, highly paid legal and propaganda minions, mostly from Switzerland and the UK – should take a lesson in democracy.
German NOC in crisis mode: thirty per cent less money from the IOC for 2025-2028
At a board meeting, DOSB discussed a ‘worst-case scenario’ and is looking for solutions for several million euros that will soon be lost due to a reduction in IOC royalties of around 30 per cent. On another topic: there are, of course, still no concepts and budgets for the so-called Olympic bid.
Klaus Schormann and Shiny Fang are looking for moles: "help us to identify the source of these leaks"
Part V: At 3 p.m., in just a few minutes, UIPM monarch Klaus Schormann and his secretary general Shiny Fang will meet with IOC boss Thomas Bach. You, dear readers, are not supposed to know about this meeting – and you should not read the following email that Fang has just sent out. Voilà...
HON Circle Monarch Klaus Schormann visits Thomas Bach
On 7 November, UIPM president Klaus Schormann will be the IOC's president's guest at the Olympic House at 3 p.m. Shortly afterwards, he will fly to Saudi Arabia for 8 days and wants to come back as HON president. I have prepared a list of questions that IOC boss Bach should definitely ask Schormann.
IOC Presidential Index (I): clear lead, surprising bottom of the league
Do you like Excel spreadsheets? Are you interested in statistics and fascinated by the question of how sport politics can be translated into forecasts? Here you go: the ranking of the 7 candidates for the IOC election in 2025. In a similar way, I predicted the 2013 result quite accurately.
Trading in Olympic accreditations and upgrade cards? What UIPM monarch Schormann claims to his fellow board members
Part III: Before we take a deeper look at further documents, contracts and machinations from the UIPM, let us briefly read an email in which monarch Klaus Schormann tries to explain certain events to his colleagues on the Executive Board – let us check whether his assertions are correct.
Ethics complaint against UIPM monarch Schormann for "acting corruptly" and improper influence on "the result of any UIPM election"
Part II: For months, an explosive ethics complaint has been filed against the UIPM president, which is receiving special treatment and being kept secret. This casts the strange events surrounding treasurer John Helmick in Paris in a new light and could have been an act of perfidious revenge.
The notorious practices of UIPM monarch Klaus Schormann (I): the trade in Olympic accreditation, disguised as sponsor contracts
Part I: Read the original of a so-called sponsor contract that Klaus Schormann, in violation of the UIPM statutes, signed on his own authority, with a strange consulting firm whose owner had just been convicted of tax fraud and went to prison shortly after the contract was signed.
New witnesses and chat protocols on World Triathlon scam: "the whole election was rigged!"
Before I turn your attention to another Olympic IF scandal (stay tuned) and report on ANOC's General Assembly in Portugal this week, I don't want to withhold some developments on the obvious election fraud at World Triathlon – with ICAS vice president Antonio Arimany in the center of the conspiracy.
The heat is on: World Triathlon, the fake elections, the fake president, fake leadership and those responsible for widespread collusion
THE TIMES has taken up the reporting on the dubious events in World Triathlon. Other media will follow. THE TIMES reports additionally, that a former candidate has lodged a complaint of bullying and threatened to withdraw from the presidential race.
Mafia culture in World Triathlon covered by the Olympic family through inaction
The fake elections have so far no consequences for those who organised the swindle and are its biggest beneficiaries. There are calls for new elections while the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), of which fake Triathlon boss Antonio Arimany is Vice President, endorses the scam by inaction. Q&A.
World Triathlon: fake president, fake elections, fake oversight
Since we broke the story, more witnesses have come forward to confirm the widespread election collusion at World Triathlon. We have names, documents (as exclusively published), photos and video footage. Is there anyone in Triathlon and the Olympic family willing to stop this madness? The athletes?