Opinion: Will ISAF get trapped by political concessions for 2016 ?

7:22 AM Thu 28 Oct 2010 GMT

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A lot has been written about the ISAFs Olympic Commissions report and the resulting Executive Committee submission in the last weeks. There is no doubt that the Olympic Commission has done an outstanding job by firing the first bullets on some of ISAFs holy cows, however there is still a huge risk that the final decision makers inside ISAF fail half way up the hill. This article focuses on the risk factors resulting from the obvious discrepancies between the Olympic Commission report and submissions 096-10 and 097-10 Risk Factor 1: Core and remaining events The Olympic Commission has suggested to ...

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by Markus Schwendtner