The COC Athletes Council representing the views of high-performance athletes, is tasked with reviewing and providing recommendations to the Canadian Olympic Committee on a range of issues that directly impact Olympic and Pan American Games hopefuls. It meets to discuss such issues as team selection and planning, funding allocation and how to best support Canadian athletes to help them achieve podium success at upcoming Olympic Games.
Following the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, six athletes were elected by their peers to the Canadian Olympic Committee’s Athletes’ Council to represent the concerns of Canada's amateur athletes over the next Olympic quadrennnial. Amongst those athletes is Iain Brambell - who is currently chair of the Athletes Council and has sat on the COC's Executive Committee since 2004, but are Canada's amateur athletes benefiting?
Brambell, is currently residing in Australia, and is over 7, 000 miles and a half a world away from the issues facing Canada's amateur athletes. With Brambell now consumed with matters in Australia and Canada's amateur athletes facing a number of important issues isn't it about time Brambell did the honorable thing and resign from his position? After all, one has to wonder if Brambell would have been re-elected to the council , if Canada's amateur athletes were informed that he was setting up shop in Australia after the Beijing Games.
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