I have not checked whether everyone who participated in the 5th International Forum for Sports Integrity at the Olympic House or online today has no skeletons in the closet and lives up to the standards of integrity and good governance as a sports official.
All I can say for certain is that the woman standing in front of the Olympic flag (to the right of IOC athletes spokesperson and Executive Board member Emma Terho) is living proof of how the IOC has been allowing integrity to decline within the Olympic family for many years: the so-called Ethics Secretary Pâquerette Girard Zapelli, who collected two million dollars for her dubious services during the last Olympiad.
These services consisted primarily of resolutely dismissing all kinds of ethics complaints. I recently reported on a well-documented case involving the esports family business of long-time IOC Vice-President Ser Miang Ng, and even there, dear Pâquerette Girard Zapelli, the two-time millionaire per Olympiad, saw no reason to take action.
