Does USOC Chair Probst Need Longer Term To Gain Long-Term Clout?
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Writer Says Probst Should Be
Chair For At Least Eight Years |
USOC Chair Larry Probst needs to remain in his position for "at least eight years" because that is the "only way to begin addressing issues highlighted in post-mortems after the dismal failures of the last two U.S. bids to host a Summer Olympics," according to Philip Hersh of the CHICAGO TRIBUNE. The U.S. has "no clout in the Olympic world," and the USOC leadership has "changed so frequently in the past decade it has developed none of the relationships to create such clout." The U.S. currently has "zero presidents of international federations with sports still on the Olympic program," and zero places on the 15-member IOC Exec Board. The U.S. also has just "two IOC members -- compared, for instance, with five each for Italy and for Switzerland," and neither U.S. member is "considered a major player in the IOC." No USOC President or Chair has been an IOC member since Sandra Baldwin in '02, and her IOC stay "lasted less than four months because she resigned as USOC chair after admitting to falsifying her academic history." Former USOC Chair Peter Ueberroth, who held the position from '04-08, "had made too many enemies on the IOC to be considered as a member." Hersh noted Probst recently said that he "intends to serve the full four-year term mandated by the USOC board when it made him chairman last year." The current USOC bylaws "allow board members to serve one six-year term." But the "time has come for the USOC board to amend its bylaws and extend that term to at least eight years." Hersh: "How much relationship-building could Probst do in less than three years, anyway?" Any decision on extending the chairman's term "must wait until after the USOC selects a new chief executive, which Probst said should happen before the end of the year, although it might take until mid-January" (CHICAGOTRIBUNE.com, 11/9).
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