Problems in top Olympic Commities

The are problems between the British Olympic Comite (BOA) and the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG). The BOA gets twenty percent of the possible profit of the Olympic Games but BOA now wants this percentage to be calculated without the cost of the Paralympics, which will be held in London as well. LOGOG finds this nonsense, and is supported by the IOC chairman Jacques Rogge.

The BOA went into the Court of Arbitration in Sport in Lausanne. The IOC sees that action as an infringement of the policy. And so LOCOG led by Lord Coe, a popular British former top athlete, decided not to invite for his meetings the Chairman of the BOA, Lord Moynihan, a former rower at Olympic level and former minister of sport. And director Andy Hunt can stay home as well.

The expectation is that Moynihan will not survive this conflict as BOA chairman. And if the Court of Arbitration of the BOA rejects the claim, presumably Hunt can quit as director.