IOC Rocked By Sex Abuse Allegations & Accusations Of A Failure To Act On Eve Of Vote To Elect New President
As Olympic governors prepare for a change of guard tomorrow, a whistleblower says she was treated like a slave and "prey" by an Olympic boss and that IOC leaders failed to act when she pleaded for help and made Thomas Bach aware
The race to choose the next President of the International Olympic Committee has been buffeted at the eleventh hour by excoriating allegations of sexual harassment in the movement, perpetration and failure to act all put down to IOC leaders.
On the eve of the vote to elect the next IOC leader, the abuse allegations cut to the heart of the African Olympic diaspora, the accountability of the IOC and the robustness of its ethics and integrity operations.
Among lines in an investigative report that catch the eye at The Inquisitor are:
- Thomas Bach was informed in 2022
- a female assistant called to her Olympic boss's office says she was asked 'Do you have the work instrument?' - and its turns out he means a condom;
- and the whistleblower claims to have been bullied and sexually harassed by several IOC members and other senior officials over more than a decade. A number of IOC members and directors, the secretary general and president Thomas Bach have been informed about the incidents. The whistleblower says she received no help in her complaints against the top African Olympic bureaucrat and politician.
The report cites a whistleblower as saying that she was treated like a slave and "prey".
