Ethics complaint against the IWF president: "Elections were not free, it was more like a selection by a few people, mainly by Mr. Jalood"
The Winter Olympic Federations (WOF) and ASOIF's Council are meeting today in Lausanne. The elections of several IF presidents were recently marred by irregularities and corruption. Tomorrow, one of the beneficiaries, weightlifting president Mohammed Jalood, wants to be elected to the ASOIF Council.
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Of course, Kirsty Coventry and Thomas Bach will be present tomorrow at the Hotel Royal Savoy, where the General Assembly of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) traditionally meets. The first word will be given by ASOIF president Ingmar De Vos, IOC member and president of the Fédération Équestre Internationale (FEI).
Then the outgoing IOC president Bach and his chosen successor Coventry will speak – in that order. Bach was recently in Doha, where he is said to have heard confidential reports about dubious goings-on in the run-up to the ITTF election congress. He is said to have been approached about this not only by ITTF president Petra Sörling. Sörling won this election under turbulent circumstances and was ultimately glad to escape unscathed from the hell of Doha and the raging mob of election losers.
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If my information is reliable, as it usually is, then some serious discussions including IOC officials may have ensured that Sörling won by the narrowest of margins (104:102), shocking those who had firmly expected victory and invested so much in it. Hence the uproar. More on this shortly.
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On Wednesday, at the 49th ASOIF General Assembly, item 14 on the agenda will once again deal with good governance and the sixth ASOIF report on the subject. The problem with these reports is that they are largely based on self-reported information from the Olympic federations (IF), rather than on hard-hitting research or even official investigations, as would be necessary in quite a few ASOIF member federations.
If this were not the case, officials such as Husain Al-Musallam, president of World Aquatics and one of the most corrupt sports officials on the planet, would hardly be able to hold numerous honorary positions and vote at the ASOIF General Assembly. If this were not the case, fake presidents such as Antonio Arimany (World Triathlon), Rob Stull (UIPM), apparently corrupt figures such as Tayyab Ikram (FIH, field hockey) and many others would have no place at the ASOIF General Assembly.
I have reported exclusively on this in dozens of articles over the past few months and, among other things, documented election manipulation with numerous documents and witness statements:
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If things were done correctly in Olympic sport and at the congresses of Olympic IFs, then Mohammed Jalood, president of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), who has been residing in Doha for many years, would not be standing for election to the ASOIF Council on Wednesday.
But who knows, maybe Jahood will withdraw his candidacy right after the publication of this newsletter.
Or he is counting on finding enough supporters for himself and his machinations among the ASOIF crowd: Husain Al-Musallam, Sheikh Saud Ali Al Thani (FIBA), Gianni Infantino (FIFA), Hassan Moustafa (IHF), the fake presidents Arimany and Stull ... for example. That would be half the battle.
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In any case, four seats on the ASOIF Council are up for grabs (three for the period 2025-2029, one for 2025-2027) – there have been seven applicants so far.
- Mohammed Jalood (Iraq, Qatar), president of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF)
- Thomas Konietzko (Germany), president of the International Canoe Federation (ICF)
- Nenad Lalovic (Serbia, IOC), president of United World Wrestling (UWW)
- Ximena Restrepo (Chile), Senior Vice President of World Athletics, soon to be Sebastian Coe's successor at WA
- Jean-Christophe Rolland (France, IOC), president of World Rowing
- Marco Maria Scolaris (Italy), president of the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC)
- Andreas Zagklis (Greece), Secretary General of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA)
I already told you a bit about the fake IWF elections in Riyadh back in May. Unfortunately, the details got a bit lost in the shuffle of other events...
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... It's a shame, because I had already shown you the election results distributed in advance, as was once the case in World Triathlon under fake president Arimany, in this article:
IWF congress, Riyadh, May 2025
If I am correctly informed, this and some other evidence has now been forwarded to the IOC Ethics Commission.
You know that, for well-documented reasons, I do not think much of the work of Pâquerette Girard Zappelli as IOC Ethics and Compliance Officer. Pâquerette, an Olympic millionaire, is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
But let's put such concerns aside for a moment: who else should delegates turn to?
These are some of the allegations that were submitted to the IOC Ethics Commission regarding the IWF Congress in Riyadh and the machinations of president Mohammed Jalood:
