OpEd: How Low Do Federations Sink Before the IOC Steps In?
02/18/21
The IWF is the new benchmark and I’m with the IOC – a new reformist presidency is desperately needed.
by Callum Skinner
Around the Rings
Callum Skinner won gold and silver medals in track cycling at Rio 2016. (Global Athlete)
I have never been one to shy away from what I - and I believe scores of others - see as the obvious in modern-day Olympic sport: ineffectual sports governance. The examples are too plentiful and too regular to shy away from, and it’s one of the reasons I became a passionate and prominent athlete advocacy campaigner following my Olympic Gold at Rio 2016.