EXCLUSIVE: The IOC Ethics Commission received a comprehensive complaint against the former IOC Vice-President from Singapore, who is alleged to have mixed his many positions with family business in several respects in connection with esports, the Olympic Esports Week and the Olympic Esports Games.
Triathlon corruption is now attracting considerable interest among athletes and some of the biggest names in the sport. Rightly so: be outraged! Demand an independent investigation and new elections! For anyone who missed my reports in late 2024, here are the facts that describe a mafia-like system.
EXCLUSIVE: The head of the American confederation, Liber García (Uruguay), rigged elections with other continental princes and the then secretary general Antonio Arimany. The new triathlon boss Arimany is also ICAS vice president. An opposition is calling for an investigation and new elections.
The Winter Olympic Federations (WOF) and ASOIF's Council are meeting today in Lausanne. The elections of several IF presidents were recently marred by irregularities and corruption. Tomorrow, one of the beneficiaries, weightlifting president Mohammed Jalood, wants to be elected to the ASOIF Council.
The World Olympians Association (WOA) is not the first organisation that the IOC has dissolved or arranged to be dissolved. In autumn 2022, the more important GAISF was killed off – the trail led to the IOC headquarters. The WOA case is much better documented. Read the most important correspondence!
Play the Game published a paper for an entity called ClearingSport. On the one hand commendable, on the other hand, after a variety of consultations, core problems are only insufficiently described in it. Compromises beyond recognition. Can an agency be forced on the sport system ruled by the IOC?
A whistleblower claims to be bullied and sexually harassed by several IOC members and other senior officials over more than a decade. A number of IOC members and directors, the secretary general and president Thomas Bach have been informed about the incidents. The victim received no help.
Why Kirsty Coventry will become IOC president next week. What would have to happen to prevent it – an ethics complaint against Bach et al, for example. What the latest multi-billion dollar TV deal has to do with the election, and the dubious paths that led Coventry in the IOC in the first place.
The salaries of the IOC directors remain exorbitantly high. Frontrunner Christophe Dubi gets more than Christophe De Kepper. More than $50m are paid in the four-year cycle – most likely several millions more. Read the full list for 2023. And: Jacqueline Barrett passes the baton to Mattias Kaestner.
The IOC has further tightened the rules for the presidential election campaign and made them absurd beyond recognition. Debates are prohibited. Questions in the IOC plenary not allowed. This index compares and checks the suitability of the candidates – everything that the IOC leadership prohibits.
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.
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.
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?
In the next weeks, several presidential posts in Olympic IF will be filled. The first decision will be taken at World Triathlon Congress in Spain on 21 October. Three presidential candidates complained to IOC president Thomas Bach about the dubious machinations of the Spanish Triathlon leadership.
... she submits her candidature by Sunday. Go ahead and bet while the odds are still attractive. Could anybody beat the Moroccan? Nicole Hoevertsz? At least nobody would have to talk anymore about the non-transparent IOC rules and the strange opinions of a dubious IOC Ethics Commission.
Will Thomas Bach have the Olympic Charter amended and begin a third term in office? Will he even step down once in this millennium? Who has he chosen as his successor? Many questions, important background information and some answers.
