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Juicy stuff posted today:
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The same kind of high handed disregard for organizational mission statement was manifest in the new CEO of USATF, Doug Logan's appointments of athletes and others to his USATF Audit Panel. This panel was charged with interviewing and reviewing with people within USATF about the best practices and worse practices within USATF. . . . There were no physically disabled members of the panel. There were no members representing youth a category of athletes that USATF is mandated to serve and represent by the Amateur Sports Act and the USOC by-laws. Of a panel of seven, only one was a woman in a sport where approximately 50% of the Olympic team is female and women won nine ( 9 ) and men won fourteen ( 14 ) of the twenty three ( 23 ) Olympic medals won in Beijing. Racially, blacks routinely win more than 80% of the U.S. medal count at major international competitions, including the Olympics. Black representation on the original Audit Panel was approximately 33% !
The pit bull for this disinformation was Lynn Cannon, the secretary of the board. She went on a constant and comprehensive campaign to discredit the "dissenters" and "dissidents" as the cause of board conflicts despite the fact that it was she who struck another board member and shouted an obscene expletive as she stormed out of a meeting, abdicating her secretarial responsibility in the process. Her animosity and disruptive presence became so troublesome that she was asked off several USATF committees. . . . She persisted in her personal attacks on the character of certain board members, even going up to the election volunteer table for Stephanie Hightower at the convention and raging tearfully, " How can you support this person ? She is the most evil person in track and field ! "
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