SINGAPORE - Local athletes have more say in their national bodies than ever before, but more can be done to empower them at the executive level so they are able to effect change.
"There is the idea from those that are not, that the athletes' representatives will use the opportunity to gain information and undermine ... and so they just don't trust their athletes enough. MARGINAL IMPROVEMENT Chay says the overall landscape has been seen an improvement; when he was elected SNOC athletes' commission chair in 2017, just one NSA - the Singapore Swimming Association - had an athletes' commission.
The national sports agency has told ST that it is supporting efforts by the NSAs"to professionalise and strengthen their governance" and that it has"provided guidance through a set of Governance Principles for NSAs and a template of a model constitution" to help them revise their respective charters.A STEP BACKWARDS SA's bid to remove its athletes' representative's voting rights, therefore, is seen as a step backwards by some.
"The athletes' is just as important if not more so than the other members as they ... the most important stakeholders in this sport - the athletes," added Soh. Soh, who won the marathon at the 2015 and 2017 SEA Games, added that he believed every NSA should have not just one but two athlete representatives - one male and one female - with both accorded voting rights at executive level.
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