Change the articles of association of the athlete committee: Cannot combine management positions with international positions
In the new law, it is made clear that it is not possible to combine the role of chairman of the Norwegian athletes’ committee with a position on the international athletes’ committee.
– Then the leader must resign and a new leader is then chosen from among the other elected members, said leader Magnus Nedregotten.
The changes were adopted by the board of the Norwegian Sports Confederation and presented at an open hour for the press on Friday.
He said the changes were made to avoid the possibility of role conflict or the perception of role conflict.
Before Nedregotten took over as manager earlier this year, Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen was manager. He was then also a member of the IOC’s athletes’ committee, two roles that were unlikely to be combined under the athletes’ committee’s new constitution.
Rower Kjetil Borch, who was elected to this year’s athletes’ committee, sent a letter to the Sports Council expressing his disbelief in Jacobsen.
– The treatment of this letter prompted us to make this change, Nedregotten said of the rule change.
– The climate in the processing of this case is very constructive. It begins with an exchange of letters from Kjetil, with a request to address cases of mistrust. Then Kjetil was elected as a member of the performance committee. After that, we had several meetings and the dialogue was very constructive. “We agreed not to address the mistrust as the relevance of the letter is no longer that great,” he further said.
When asked about the athletes’ committee’s view on the IOC’s recent decision to allow athletes with Russian and Belarusian passports to participate in the Olympics in Paris under a neutral flag, taking into account a number of criteria, Nedregotten said that there were “some disagreements” on the matter. how exactly to convey the opinion of the group that appears.
– As a result, we have not had an official statement on our position as a sports committee until today, said Nedregotten, who further said that he had no comment on how big the division would be.
Nedregotten also said that the statute was changed so that the athletes’ committee could form a supervisory body.
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