Does this affect you?

Kattefjaes

At this point, you have to wonder what's cause and what is effect. Maybe you don't get to be senior in sports governance unless you're massively corrupt, a dealer in influence and kickbacks. The structure seems to produce an overtly political climate- just one that's more closed and secretive than most governments are allowed to get away with.

It may not be so much a case of "oh no, a horrible corrupt bastard has been put in charge of ", more "oh, look, this person is now in charge of , they're obviously a cheat who knows game the system and grease palms".

No, I don't know how to fix it, but I bet the answer includes fewer secretive conclaves off the record. 

Your chances of getting the right person may be almost nil, if by definition, you need to be a scummy wheeler-dealer to get that high in a sports organisation. A selection pressure that favours the dishonest, if you will.

As dear old Douglas Adams put it:

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

 

15West

Wow factor coming.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/25/dick-pound-wada-report-explosive-wow-factor-iaaf

 

Cheerful Dave

Should I be concerned that Dick Pound seems to want his report to be 'explosive' (in his words)?  Isn't that one step too close to the sexed-up dossiers in the past that were altered to suit a particular agenda?

Kattefjaes

Dick Pound being "explosive" really doesn't sound SFW.

SideBurn

Quoting Douglas Adams Kattefjaes  the man was a genius