The International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided on Tuesday to maintain the suspension of the Guatemalan Olympic Committee (COG), which it decreed on October 15, because the situation that prompted it has “deteriorated,” the IOC director reported. for relations with the national committee, the British James Macleod.
“The suspension will continue until the parties find an acceptable solution,” Mcleod said at a press conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, where the IOC Executive Board is meeting.
“We received updated information on the situation, which, in fact, has worsened,” he said.
The source of the sanction is the suspension of part of the COG statutes by the Constitutional Court of the Central American country, after a lawsuit filed by a candidate for the presidency of the organization.
After the IOC’s suspension, the Court ordered on November 2 that former soccer player Jorge Rodas take over as president of the COG, after a legal battle against the current president, Gerardo Aguirre.
But when Rodas attended the inauguration ceremony, he could not take the oath because the facilities of the Palacio de los Deportes, in the capital of the Central American country, were closed.
Source: La Verdad
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