NGB Leaders Seek More Information Regarding Scherr's Ouster

NEXT STEPS: The AP's Eddie Pells reported NGB Council Chair and USA Triathlon Exec Dir Skip Gilbert is "scheduled to meet Thursday" with USOC Chair Larry Probst. USA Gymnastics President Steve Penny: "We're trying to get to a place where everyone understands what's going on." Pells noted the NGBs and Chicago 2016 officials are "concerned about Streeter's ascension to CEO from the volunteer board of directors -- whether it's legal and ethical for a board member who allegedly helped engineer the CEO's ouster to take his job." Streeter said that there was "no conflict of interest" (AP, 3/9). Meanwhile, the WALL STREET JOURNAL's Matthew Futterman reports Streeter will arrive at USOC HQs in Colorado Springs tomorrow, and her "first order of business" will be to end the "stalemate with the [IOC], which wants to cut the USOC's generous share of premium Olympic sponsorships and U.S. media rights for the Games" (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 3/10).

BAD TIMING: In Boston, John Powers writes the timing "couldn't be worse for an abrupt change at the top" of the USOC, as the '10 Vancouver Games are "less than a year away, and Chicago's bid for the 2016 Games is at a critical point, with a presentation to the IOC executive board in Denver due later this month and a site visit from the evaluation commission in early April." When there is "instability and dysfunction at the top, as there was when Scherr took over in 2003, the family takes the hit." Streeter's "biggest challenge may be to convince the family -- including its IOC godfathers in Switzerland -- that the bad old days of petty infighting and revolving-door officials won't return" (BOSTON GLOBE, 3/10).

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