Irony has died for me a thousand times. That’s not a thousand little cuts. That’s a thousand roundhouse kicks. One of the better deaths was in 2010 when the International Centre for Sports Security was set up to ensure greater transparency in the bidding process for major sporting events.
The non-profit has a colour coded website with thrusting messaging. Our Story. Our Impact. Why Our Work Matters. Led by President Mohammed Hanzab, a former lieutenant colonel in the Qatar Armed Forces, it’s based in Doha and funded by Qatar. Well waddaya know.
So concern leached out again this week in the governing body rush for the moral high ground over Ukraine’s struggle. In that stampede as luck would have it, International Boxing (IBA) just couldn’t get a kick, when it decided to continue its opaque relationship with Gazprom.
In its wisdom the IBA …
- March 4, 2022
