IOC Reforms of 1999 and International Federations
Posted By:
Dr. Ravee Raghavan from Puerto Rico
A very important change emerging from the 1999 IOC Reforms had to do with the introduction of term-limits for the Presidency and Executive Board. While the IOC Charter does say that NOC Charters must model themselves after it, few if any International Federations have followed suit on this important issue of term-limits.
For example the World Karate Federation has no term-limits and unlike the IOC Charter requires a 4-year Executive Committee term of service for all Presidential candidates (and to get into the EC one must be on the current Presidential platform), thereby preventing at-large candidates from the Congress of national federations from contesting.
The 1999 Reforms also empowered athletes and women by giving them more votes, but in the World Karate Federation, the Athletes Commission is merely a cosmetic unit with no voting rights in the EC. They are merely invited to attend EC meetings.
on Sep 22, 2009 03:03AM
