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Shiny Fang’s contract as UIPM secretary general extended to 2025 Thursday, 6 May 2021
Shiny Fang has had her contract as secretary general of the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) extended until June 2025.
Fang will continue to manage the UIPM administration throughout the Paris 2024 Olympic Games cycle, where modern pentathlon will be a core sport on the programme for the 26th consecutive Summer Games.
Now in her ninth year as secretary general and based in the new UIPM Headquarters in Monaco, Fang has overseen a major expansion of UIPM’s operational staff and changes to the competition format, which is currently being re-shaped to take place in a single area over 90 minutes ahead of its appearance at Paris 2024.
Sunday, 2 May 2021
Athlete empowerment, punishments for multiple doping violations, and age and term limits for Executive Board members are some of the points of contention among nations who have sent feedback on a draft Constitution to the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).
The document, drawn up by independent experts, will be voted on at a Constitutional Congress in two months.
It is subject to change before the vote if points made in the feedback are approved as amendments.
Both the amendments and the Constitution itself require a two-thirds majority to be passed.
Mike Irani, the IWF Interim President who admits that weightlifting is in turmoil says that the governing body is at a turning point at the Congress.
Divided views on athlete power and doping bans in IWF Constitution feedback insidethegames.biz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from insidethegames.biz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
New dates confirmed for SportAccord 2021 as 19th edition now set for November in Ekaterinburg 04/07/21
LAUSANNE, Switzerland – SportAccord has confirmed new dates for the SportAccord World Sport & Business Summit 2021, with sport’s most influential global gathering now set to take place from 7-12 November 2021 in Ekaterinburg, Russia at the IEC Ekaterinburg-Expo.
The decision to push back the dates for the World Sport & Business Summit to November was taken by the SportAccord Executive Committee. SportAccord is in close dialogue with its partners in Ekaterinburg, the Sverdlovsk Oblast region, and the Russian Federation. This move will provide greater safety and certainty to attendees in the context of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic but certainly to allow the greatest impact for our hosts.