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Governance issues impacting summer Olympic international sports federations are at the top of the agenda at the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) general assembly being held in the Thai capital of Bangkok this week.

Being held as part of SportAccord 2018, the ASOIF general assembly, which includes presidents and secretaries general of Olympic summer sports, is considering the fallout from the mismanagement and corruption problems that have plagued world athletics governing body IAAF, world football governing body FIFA and world amateur boxing body AIBA in the past couple of years.

Aiming to improve governance, the meeting of ASOIF’s 33 member federations will condsider a report based on responses from a questionnaire submitted earlier this year to all sports on the Tokyo 2020 program.

With the report expected to outline key findings and plot the next steps in the project, the ASOIF general assembly is also to receive updates on the creation of a governance monitoring unit and from Tokyo 2020 organisers.

Speaking after an ASOIF Council meeting on Monday in Bangkok, ASOIF President Francesco Ricci Bitti said the annual meeting agenda “promises interesting discussions” with governance a “top priority”.

Commenting on the evaluation of federations’ governance, Ricci added “we will share in which specific areas progress was made since the first review, identify remaining challenges and put forward concrete proposals on how to address them.”

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will also give a report on matters related to international federations and the Olympic Games, with special emphasis on Tokyo 2020.

The greater responsibilities given to summer international federations in shaping preparations for the Tokyo Olympics will also be scrutinised as part of the ongoing push by the IOC to expand the role of international federations in Games planning.

With pressures from governments, public opinion, media and business interests, ASOIF has initiated a long-term study to examine the future role of international federations in sport. It wants to gain agreement on their status and responsibility in the future sports landscape between the interested stakeholders, particularly the public authorities at national and regional levels and business.

In a statement issued today, ASOIF advised “the same study will also look at the speed of change impacting sport from political, social, technological and economic influences.

“ASOIF believes that IFs (international federations) need to have an adequate understanding of what the future may look like when making decisions in a sports context, which will often affect them in the long term, e.g. when it comes to contracts with broadcasters and sponsors.”

With just months to go to the Buenos Aires Youth Olympics, Games organisers are also in the Thai capital to talk about the fine-tuning of preparations and answer federations’ questions about the event.

The fight against doping is the other key topic up for discussion. Development of the IOC’s long-awaited independent International Testing Agency, when it will begin operations and how it will service international federations’ needs is likely to become clearer by Tuesday evening.

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