As minutes suggest, senior IOC member Ser Miang Ng, who is also Honorary Chairman of World Taekwondo's Kukkiwon, has obviously been campaigning for Virtual Taekwondo, a game developed by his children's companies – with the aim of it being included in the Olympic Esports Games and other events.
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.
Shortly after Nita and Mukesh Ambani successfully supported the enthronement of IOC president Kirsty Coventry, their busy daughter Isha was given a board position in the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB). Another small step towards the Ambani Games in 2036.
Part 1: A third of the presidential posts in summer Olympic IFs will be filled by December. So far, it's been a man's world: two fake presidents, five incumbents, three new bosses and the big question of whether Alisher Usmanov, who is sanctioned in three dozen nations, will lead the FIE again.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
DPRK athletes endure rigorous checks for potential contamination by foreign influences. The selfie of table tennis medalists from North Korea, South Korea and China was widely regarded as one of the top Olympic moments in Paris. In North Korea, it could lead to severe consequences for the athletes.
UIPM board member and treasurer John Helmick, son of former corrupt IOC member Robert Helmick, was sent home from Paris. The pentathlon official is alleged to have traded in accreditations on his own account. UIPM president Klaus Schormann refuses to answer specific questions about the case.
Thrilling times ahead of us. Important decisions are being made for the future of Olympic sport - everything is interwoven: the IOC presidency, the Russia issue, Saudi Arabia 2034, the 2036 and 2040 Olympics, the 2030 and 2038 Winter Games, WADA ... there could be landslide changes.
The IOC will have its tenth president or its first female president next year. Elections will be held at the session in Greece in March. In June, Thomas Bach will hand over the Olympic sceptre in rotation after twelve years.
About the IOC's non-transparent disciplinary commission, the decision of commission chair Denis Oswald to caution a courageous Afghan woman, which in turn led to her disqualification by the world federation - and about other practices under the Great Olympic Leader.
Saudi Arabia, India and Qatar are known to be in the mix among several nations vying to host the next available Summer Games in 2036. The IOC is considering changing Summer Games to autumn due to climate change.
The Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM) is once again creating bad news. John Helmick, son of a former IOC vice president and ally of UIPM Supremo Klaus Schormann, who has been in office for 31 years, has had his Paris accreditation withdrawn. The case raises many questions.
