John Coates, the outgoing president of the Australian Olympic Committee, drafted his personal letter of advice stating that it was “laborious to think about anyone higher certified on this planet of sport” to be appointed to the organising committee of the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.
Coates is Australia’s most celebrated official within the Olympic motion and a vice-president of the Worldwide Olympic Committee. He stood down on Saturday as president of the AOC after 32 years. He'll change into the AOC’s inaugural honorary life president after the 2024 Paris Olympics, when he stands down from the IOC. The life presidency position was written into the AOC’s structure eventually 12 months’s AGM and Coates was formally awarded the place in March 2022.
An e mail despatched by Coates on 1 April 2021, to Matt Carroll, the chief government officer and vice chairman of the AOC, reveals he drafted a gushing letter of advice that he be allowed to affix the Brisbane Video games’ organising committee when Coates turns into life president of the AOC. Coates requested that the letter be signed by Carroll and despatched on to Peter Sheehan and Mark Cushing of BDO Consultancy, an accountancy agency concerned in establishing Brisbane’s organising committee after it was awarded the Video games. It's understood that the draft was reviewed and regarded by Carroll earlier than being despatched.
Based on Coates the honorary place of life president doesn't carry any voting rights on the AOC Govt “however it's going to carry affect, if they need it, throughout the organising committee”. Coates has been closely concerned in Australian-hosted Olympics as president of the AOC, vice chairman of the organising committee of the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and deputy chairman of the candidate management group for the Brisbane 2032 Video games.
The letter drafted by Coates for Carroll begins: “As you recognize, the Olympic constitution and the Olympic internet hosting contract present that the AOC ought to be represented on the Brisbane Ocog [Organising Committee of the Olympic Games] by our president, presently John Coates, and me as CEO (secretary basic).
“After 31 years, John won't contest the presidency when his present time period concludes on the AOC AGM in Might 2022. So he'll maintain the NOC president’s place on the Ocog till then and get replaced by whoever is elected as AOC president.”
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The letter goes on to notice that “it's doubtless” that the AOC government will appoint Coates as its honorary life president at a while sooner or later and urges them to incorporate a place for the veteran sports activities administrator on the organising committee.
“I'm attaching John’s long-form CV and significantly refer you to his Rowing, IOC, Australian Olympic groups, Olympic bids, Socog, Icas/Cas and different sporting occasions,” it continues. From these I hope you and the OCLG [Olympic Candidature Leadership Group] will agree that John is uniquely certified to proceed so as to add worth to the Brisbane Ocog following the conclusion of his membership as an impartial IOC member at finish 2024.
“Certainly, it's laborious to think about anybody higher certified on this planet of sport. Accordingly, you and the OCLG are requested to incorporate a place for AOC honorary life president on the Ocog commencing on the conclusion of his membership as an impartial IOC member.”
On 25 March 2022, nearly 12 months after the letter was despatched by Carroll, Coates was appointed to the honorary life president position by the AOC government committee.
In an announcement, the AOC stated: “The AOC members overwhelmingly determined in 2020 to vary the AOC structure to create the honorary life president position and the AOC government unanimously agreed to nominate John Coates to the position on 25 March 2022. The position won't come into impact till after the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games.
“For readability, the AOC government could select to nominate both the president or the honorary life president to at least one place on the Ocog, whereas the chief government officer would be the different AOC consultant. That can be a call for the AOC government after Paris 2024,” they stated.
“For additional readability, the contents of the letter addressed to BDO Consultancy don't suggest that Mr Coates be made honorary life president of the AOC. The letter proposes, as indicated above, that the position of honorary life president of the AOC could possibly be included on the Ocog board after the Paris Olympic Video games in 2024 and that John Coates would doubtless be appointed to that position.”
A lawyer performing for Coates stated: “Mr Coates has not breached the AOC’s guidelines or processes, and we refer you to the AOC CEO to confirm this.”
Ian Chesterman, who served as Australia’s chef de mission to 6 winter Olympics and is AOC vice chairman, will succeed Coates after defeating former Olympic swimmer Mark Stockwell by 67 votes to 26 in a vote on the AOC’s annual basic assembly on Saturday. IOC president Thomas Bach, who travelled to Sydney to attend the AGM, congratulated Chesterman and hailed Coates, saying he was “leaving the AOC in an incredible state”.
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