The International Weightlifting Federation, headquartered in Budapest, Hungary, announced through its official website on 15th local time that the executive committee of the organization had approved the resignation proposed by Chairman Jean.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 16 (Reporter Liu Yang) The International Weightlifting Federation, headquartered in Budapest, Hungary, announced on the 15th local time through its official website that the executive committee of the organization had approved the resignation proposed by Chairman Jean.
After the 81-year-old Jean proposed to resign, the executive committee approved his resignation at the online meeting held on the 15th local time and announced that his resignation would take effect immediately. A Jean said that his resignation would help the international federation to elect a new generation of leaders through election, restart all the work affected by the epidemic as soon as possible, and ensure that the weightlifting program will meet a brighter future.
At the beginning of this year, German ARD television showed that a large amount of the Olympic earnings of the International Federation were hoarded in Swiss bank accounts, but they had never been audited. The ARD TV station also said that the collection of doping test samples of some weightlifting players was not standardized, and many of them were collected by the Hungarian anti-doping agency.
The program pointed its finger at Jean, while the international federation called the program “out of nothing, wasting time”. Due to the pressure brought by the broadcast of the program, a Jean was forced to retreat behind the scenes and resign as an honorary member of the International Olympic Committee. The International Federation is held by Papan drrea as its executive chairman to deal with the daily affairs of the organization. At present, an independent investigation team is investigating the events revealed in the program.
Papanderea said through the official website: “Thanks to a Jean for his contribution to the International Federation for more than 40 years, especially in recent years, he has led the formulation of weightlifting anti-doping regulations that meet the standards of the International Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Agency.”
Jean served as the secretary of the International Federation for 25 years. He was elected president in 2000, served as a member of the International Olympic Committee in the same year, and became an honorary member of the International Olympic Committee in 2010.