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Canada’s sports minister defends her integrity commissioner’s complaint intake
3 minute read Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023Canada's sports minister defended the low intake of complaints by the new sports integrity commissioner and urged the country's sport bodies to sign onto the abuse-free sport program.
Pascale St-Onge appointed Sarah-Eve Pelletier as the country's first sport integrity commissioner amid a recent wave of former and current athletes pointing to toxic cultures in their sport and demanding change.
The office of the sports integrity commissioner (OSIC) began receiving complaints and reports June 22, 2020.
OSIC admitted 25 per cent in the first quarter and 33 per cent in the second quarter, citing jurisdictional reasons for the low percentage.
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Canada’s sports integrity commissioner under microscope for low complaint intake
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2 minute read Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — American executive Cindy Hook has been appointed as the inaugural CEO of the organizing committee for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brisbane.
The organizing committee announced the appointment Tuesday after engaging with 50 candidates over six months.
Hook was based in Singapore as CEO of Deloitte Asia Pacific until June and had previously worked for the international professional services network in the U.S. and in Australia, moving to Sydney in 2009 to lead the auditing practice for six years and later becoming CEO of the Australian operation in 2015.
“The opportunity to lead the Olympics and Paralympics is once in a lifetime,” Hook said. “The idea of setting up the organization, building the team, creating a vision and driving to a smooth delivery of Brisbane 2032 is very exciting and I expect it will be both challenging and rewarding.”
Tar Heels AD Cunningham to take spot on USOPC board
2 minute read Monday, Dec. 12, 2022COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham will be among the new members of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic board of directors beginning in 2023.
Cunningham will start on the board as Duke's former athletic director Kevin White leaves — keeping a major-college presence on a governing board that is trying to improve collaboration between the NCAA and its member schools. Typically, as many as 75% of the athletes on U.S. Summer Olympic teams have college experience.
Other incoming board members are Olympic bobsled champion Elana Meyers Taylor, USA Table Tennis CEO Virginia Sung and Gene Sykes, the former CEO of LA2028 committee who won the election to replace Susanne Lyons as board chair.
Starting their second four-year terms will be USA Wrestling chief executive Rich Bender, former EY (Ernst & Young) executive Beth Brooke, Paralympic swimmer Brad Snyder and Olympic swim champion John Naber.
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