IWF delays Congress after agreeing to need for completely new constitution Friday, 22 January 2021
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has moved it s two-day Constitutional Congress back by a month, but will go ahead with elections as planned in the last week of March.
The decision has been made because so much work is needed on improving the IWF s governance - one of the areas in which it has been criticised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The sport’s Olympic status is under constant review by the IOC after a series of corruption scandals and concerns over doping.
Last October, after the IWF Board ousted its reformist Interim President Ursula Papandrea of the United States, the IOC said it stressed the critical importance of continuing reforms within the IWF in order to ensure the independence of its anti-doping operations and the modernisation of its governance and management structures .