Commission disbanded

THE Athletes Commission, set up to give international sports people a greater role in the affairs of the Olympic Council of Ireland, has been disbanded by the executive council of the OCI.

Since its inception the commission has been at loggerheads over a constitution that, the OCI insisted, should be changed to be in line with the Olympic Charter, though the athletes claimed otherwise.

The athletes took issue with three points of change enforced upon them relating to no mention of funding, which they had requested from the OCI, that no two athletes from the same sport could sit on the commission and that athletes had to be in good standing with their national federation.