IOC EB Member Anita DeFrantz, IOC Member Ivan Dibos and many experts from various field gathered in Seoul, Korea on 28th April, 2014 for the Conference on Good Governance in Sport. The ISC Conference 2014: Good Governance was hosted by the International Sport Cooperation Center of Korea (ISC) with the official support of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Good Governance is an essential element for a better and advanced sporting organisation. Good Governance of the Olympic and Sports Movement has been highly emphasized by IOC President Thomas Bach and significantly covered in the Olympic Agenda 2020. Also, SportAccord has been strongly suggesting their member IFs to respect the principles of Good Governance.
Anita DeFrantz, Board Member of the USOC, delivered a keynote speech titled "For Sports Governance, is Good Enough?". In her speech, DeFrantz questioned that "Why should the standard be good and not great?" and added "The nature of sport is to go beyond what is normal. It is to achieve greatness." DeFrantz, who has been the president of LA84 Foundation since 1987, added "If the sport governing bodies at each level focus on the elements of good governance, sport at every level will experience an increase in the number of people who are interested in and willing to be part of supporting that sport."
Ivan Dibos, who has an academic background in Business Administration himself, introduced the concept of Good Governance in his "Principles of Good Governance" presentation. Dibos, IOC Member since 1982, first covered the 7 principles of Good Governance proposed by the IOC. He also pointed that "the call for Good Governance in sport happened much more slowly than in other sectors." "This has to do with traditional closed hierarchic self-governance of the sporting world." he said. Dibos also pinpointed that "the quality of the self-governance of International Non-Governmental Sports Organisations has been increasingly questioned due to the commercialization of sport, which painfully exposed governance failures such as corruption and bribery, but also made sport subject to the more avaricious and predatory ways of global capitalism." The doyen of the IOC concluded his presentation by urging the importance of Good Governance in Sport Organisations and protection of the autonomy in sporting world.
Two of Korean Olympic Gold Medalists attended the conference and delivered a speech respectively of Good Governance in the perspective of an athlete.
Seung-Hoon Lee, speed skating silver medalist at the Sochi 2014 and gold medalist at the Vancouver 2010, shared his concern for the life after the athlete career and stated "I hope the act of Good Governance in sports organizations will help athletes to have better future." The 26-year-old also expressed his delight of meeting Anita DeFrantz who personally presented the medal to him at the Team Pursuit Men event of Sochi 2014.
Suk-Hee Shim, short track speed skating gold medalist at the Sochi 2014, said that "Fairplay is the most valuable lesson I learned from competing in YOG Innsbruck 2012 and Sochi 2014." The 17-year-old added that she thinks "a good athlete coming from a good organization is like a good kid from a respectable family." The rising star of Korea’s winter sport concluded her speech saying that "I believe all the experts gathered today will give us an insight of how to make better environment to have good athletes."
The ISC is a non-profit organisation funded by the Korean government which was founded to promote collaboration in sport and benefit sporting community. The ISC hosted its first IOC supported event last year, ISC Conference 2013: Global Athlete Development, with the attendance of IOC EB Member Claudia Bokel and Juan Antonio Samaranch and IOC Member Rita Subowo and Barry Maister. Followed by the successful event, The ISC also developed Team Korea Education Programme (TKEP) for Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) which aim is to educate the Korean athletes who compete in the Olympic Games.
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