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2024 and 2028 Olympic Games to be held in Paris and
Los Angeles respectively
On 13 September 2017,
the Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) held in Lima, Peru, elected Paris and Los Angeles as host cities of the 2024 and
2028 Olympic Games respectively. On this occasion, the IOC President Thomas
Bach said that ''this historic double
allocation is a 'win-win-win' situation for the city of Paris, the city of Los
Angeles and the IOC''. The idea of a tripartite agreement whereby two
editions of the Olympic Games would be awarded at the same time was presented
by a working group of the IOC Vice-Presidents established in March 2017. Both
Paris and Los Angeles have pledged to make the Olympic Games cost-efficient, in
particular through the use of a record-breaking number of existing and
temporary facilities. In addition to economic aspects, it will be worthwhile to
keep an eye on how both cities will address human rights and other similar concerns
that may arise in the run-up to the Olympic Games.
FIFA President accused of interfering with the work of
the FIFA Governance Committee
On 13 September
2017, Miguel Maduro, a former Chair of the FIFA Governance Committee who was summarily dismissed in May 2017, appeared in the UK House of Commons to give testimony on the undue influence that FIFA's President Gianni
Infantino allegedly exerted over the work of the Governance Committee. Most
importantly, Maduro claimed that Infantino attempted to interfere with the
Governance Committee's decision to bar Vitaly Mutko, a Deputy Prime Minister of
Russia, from sitting on the FIFA Council. The former Chair of the Governance
Committee commented that Infantino ''chose
to politically survive'' and carried on to assert that FIFA has a ''deeply embedded structure that is extremely
resistant to independent scrutiny, transparency and accountability''. FIFA
denied Maduro's accusations, stating that ''exchanges
between the administration and FIFA's committees […] are logical and even desirable, so for these exchanges to be portrayed
as undue influence is factually incorrect''.
The CAS award in Jersey
Football Association v. UEFA
In its press release of 28 September 2017, the CAS communicated that it
had delivered an award in the dispute between the Jersey Football Association (JFA)
and UEFA which emerged from the JFA's application for UEFA membership submitted
in December 2015. The CAS set aside the decision rendered by the UEFA Executive
Committee on 1 September 2016 in which the JFA's application for UEFA
membership was rejected, and ordered that the respective application be
forwarded to the UEFA Congress for consideration. In view of the CAS, it is the
UEFA Congress and not the UEFA Executive Committee that is competent to
consider membership applications. It should be stressed, however, that the CAS
dismissed the JFA's request to ''take all
necessary measures to admit the JFA as a full member of UEFA without delay'',
noting that the UEFA Congress has discretionary powers to admit new members. In
this regard, the CAS further held that, on the basis of the evidence provided,
it appeared that the JFA did not satisfy the requirements for UEFA membership
laid down in Article 5(1) of the UEFA Statutes.
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