Senior sport officials give their view on the need for a World Anti-Corruption Agency, Part 2

Following an open letter to the Olympic Committee calling for actions against corruption in sport, Play the Game has asked several Senior officials in the Olympic world: Is there a need for a World Anti-Corruption Agency (WACA)?

Juan Antonio Samaranch (Spain), IOC Honorary President, IOC President from 1980 to 2001

 “We have the Ethics Commission working very well. That is enough.”

Hassan Moustafa (Egypt), President of the International Handball-Federation (IHF)

“We don’t need an agency to fight against corruption. In my view sport is in principle clean. There are from time to time sorts of corruption, which has to be dealed within the different federations.”

Richard Pound, IOC member in Canada, longtime IOC Vice President and former President of WADA

“I don’t think the form of how we organize the fight against corruption matters that much as the fact that we recognize that there is a problem. Sport has to play its own part in doing this. But it cant provide the competences. I think that we got to find some way of paying more attention to it, making sure that the sport movement does what it can and we engage the official authorities and international agencies of a governmental nature to help with the problem.”

Sam Ramsamy, IOC member in South Africa

“At the moment we have the Ethics Commission which not only looks after issues regarding corruption, but all other matters that are related to bringing sport into disrepute. What we do need

Walther Troeger, IOC member in Germany

“We are a part of the society and we are not better. We have to deal with the corruption problem, that is not to be questioned at all. I am not sure if we need an Anti-Corruption-Agency or if existing organizations of that kind can help us, is a totally open question for me. I am in the middle of my thinking process.”

Denis Oswald, IOC member in Switzerland, President of the International Rowing Federation (FISA)

“We have to be very careful regarding good governance and respect of ethics principles. I am not sure that we need a real Anti-Corruption-Agency, but certainly we have to put in place the necessary mechanism that we don’t have corruption in our sport.”

Senior sport officials give their view on the need for a World Anti-Corruption Agency, Part 1

Senior sport officials give their view on the need for a World Anti-Corruption Agency, Part 3

Senior sport officials give their view on the need for a World Anti-Corruption Agency, Part 4