Antonio Fernández Arimany has held a leading position in the administration of World Triathlon for a decade and a half. Since Monday, he is, as expected, president of World Triathlon, an Olympic IF which could hardly survive without the royalties from the IOC's marketing programme and which has long been characterised by good governance problems of all kinds.
Arimany does not like the reporting in THE INQUISITOR and SPORT & POLITICS, he says, although we have the documents to back up our findings.
Two days ago, I published an explosive letter of complaint from three now failed presidential candidates to the IOC leadership. Yesterday I documented the accusations against World Triathlon leaders during the election congress. And today Antonio Arimany is annoyed once again. It will not be the last time: the two-page list that I am publishing here today, raises many questions and completely calls into question the election on Monday.
I already documented yesterday that all those who have criticised the machinations of Arimany, Casado & Co in recent months have been brutally punished - none of them have won even a single ballot.
It could be because this so-called election was pre-arranged and therefore a farce. Was it?
Several witnesses tell me that this ominous list, which almost one hundred per cent reflects the official election result, was distributed hours before the election. The list was distributed in advance by email and WhatsApp, and the lists were also distributed in paper form at the meetings of continental confederations that preceded the congress on Monday.
This list is a set of instructions to certain parts of the electorate.
- The names of all 160 candidates for the positions to be elected do not appear on this list (there were people who withdrew their candidacies, so there may be a few less in the end).
- On this list, only those candidates who were ultimately "elected" appear in advance with almost 100% accuracy.
- There are 71 names on the list.
Only in two cases, for minor positions on the committees, does the "election result" differ. This needs to be explained, because in at least one of these two cases, the candidate who was on the list of those who should be elected did indeed receive the corresponding votes in the "election", but because a continental rule also applied, a representative from Africa was moving up despite having received fewer votes.
