At the end of the plenary meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Tokyo, the members unanimously approved changes to the Olympic Charter, which will once again significantly expand the power of the executive around President Thomas Bach.
Christoph Becker
Sports editor.
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Accordingly, it will be possible for the leadership circle to tip sports out of the program in the future if “the decisions of the IOC executive are not followed or if the international trade association concerned acts in a way that damages the image of the Olympic movement”.
A sport can initially be suspended by the executive, and a deletion from the program must be decided by the session.
The change in the rules in the charter caused hardly any inquiries among the members, only the President of the International Equestrian Federation, the Belgian Ingmar de Vos, said he was surprised to be confronted with such changes "on Sunday morning".
When he asked what process would lead to the executive branch being concerned with the suspension of a sport, the Australian Vice-President and Chairman of the CAS International Sports Arbitration Court, John Coates, replied with a reference to the International Weightlifting Federation (IMF), which had been operating in previous years had not followed the recommendations of the IOC executive.
Then de Vos also voted in favor of the charter amendment.
In addition, the IOC decided that it would only be about accreditations for the Olympic Games.
This is how the session reacted to the Maxim Agapitov case.
The IMF official, president of the Russian Weightlifting Association and interim president of the European Weightlifting Association, successfully sued the CAS for accreditation for Tokyo.