SportAccord Newsdesk -- IOC Execs Meet Federations; WADA on Costs

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(ATR) The IOC Executive Board will meet with the umbrella Olympic sport federation organizations on Tuesday.

Meetings are taking place in London at the SportAccord Convention. SportAccord is the organization for all recognized sport federations.

First up: ASOIF, representing the summer sports, with AWOIF for the winter sports immediately after.

Three and a half hours of Tuesday’s agenda are blocked off for the meetings.

Several key issues with the federations remain to be addressed.

One of those includes the re-negotiated broadcast revenue sharing agreement. Federation leaders are unhappy that the new deal will not go into effect until 2020, meaning it will be eight more years before they receive more money from the IOC.

Also proposed: automatically adding each federation president as an IOC member.

Denis Oswald, current ASOIF president, serves on the EB as an ASOIF representative. However, his term expires in 2012, and elections will not be held until 2013. ASOIF is petitioning the EB to keep that slot open until a new president is chosen.

With the 2012 Olympics in London looming, several questions about the Games linger.

Currently, the outdoor venues do not have covered seating, but a request was made for all outdoor seats to be covered.

The federations also want their logos displayed on team uniforms during the Games. As it stands, the only branding they have inside the arena during the Olympics comes from their flags hanging from the rafters.

IOC rules do not permit advertising on the field of play during competition.

A joint press conference with IOC president Jacques Rogge, ASOIF president Denis Oswald and AIOWF president René Fasel is scheduled for later Tuesday.

The IOC EB will meet Tuesday and Wednesday.

WADA Director Says Agency Sensitive to Costs

World Anti-Doping Agency director general David Howman says the agency is sensitive to costs of anti-doping controls for the 28 summer Olympic federations.

Howman spoke Monday at the ASOIF assembly taking place in London on the eve of the SportAccord Convention.

ASOIF president Denis Oswald pointed to the amount of money spent, $21 million, with less than 1 percent of doping tests yielding positive results. Oswald said this amounted to a cost of $115,000 per positive sample.

Howman says WADA can come up with anti-doping programs that are built on cost, taking into account the money available from a federation for its anti-doping program.

Howman suggested ways to stem the costs of testing, such as deterrence programs – and elimination of the "B" sample now needed to confirm a positive test. Howman noted that criminals can be sent to prison based on a single test.

"Why is sport the only collector of bodily sampling where you collect two samples?" Howman asked. He said the number of B samples that failed to back up a positive A sample in the past two or three years has been almost zero.

Without citing specific cases Howman also noted that sample tampering is also a problem with some athletes schooled on how to manipulate a sample. He said large quantities of water consumed by some athletes post-competition may be attempts to dilute a chemical, "not to combat dehydration".

Boxing Dinner, Clarification

Boxing federation AIBA is the host for Tuesday’s SportAccord dinner.

Other media reports said that sports management company IMG terminated its relationship with AIBA and the World Series of Boxing.

However, AIBA saysit was the onewho decided to separate from the firm.

WSB is 75 percent owned by AIBA, 25 percent by IMG– at least under the arrangement in place for the debut season wrapping up next month.

With reporting in London by Ed Hula.