Playing political hardball with the IOC is not a winning proposition.
SportAccord president Marius Vizer delivered a blistering critique of the IOC, its Agenda 2020 reforms, and its president, Thomas Bach, on April 20 at the SportAccord convention in Sochi, Russia . It was a headline-grabbing spectacle the world over.
In part, Vizer, who also heads the International Judo Federation, said, "History demonstrated that all the empires who reached the highest peaks of development never reformed on time and they are all headed for destruction. The IOC system today is expired, outdated, wrong, unfair and not at all transparent."