Questionable coincidences have been discovered within the new management of the LOC

The elections of the management and government committee of the Latvian Olympic Committee (LOC) held on Tuesday, June 4, raised the query of whether or not what occurred might possibly be thought-regarding honest play.

People who find themselves not notably well-known in sports activities circles got here to the management. As well as, the LOC government committee will now not have a number of federations representing sports activities which might be acknowledged as priorities within the means of allocating state funding. For instance, basketball, soccer or athletics federations. Additionally, the taking pictures federation, whose president is Latvia’s first Olympic standard-bearer following the restoration of independence, Raimonds Bergmanis, won’t be represented. He sees doubtful coincidences within the new management of the LOC. “Now it seems that among the many members, each particular person and within the government committee, 4 federations out of those 15 [приоритетных]. And it appears unusual that these federations which might be among the many precedence ones weren’t given confidence,” Bergmanis famous in an interview with Latvian Tv.

However the Secretary Normal of the Latvian Basketball Union (LBU) Kaspars Tsipruss emphasizes that he respects the opinion of the manager committee. For him, an important factor now might be the preparation of the lads’s staff for the Olympic qualifying event, which will probably be held in Riga. “Sport is a mirror of society. Political energy needs us to be united, however whereas society may be very divided, that is mirrored in politicians and in relation to sports activities,” Zipruss stated.

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