Four of the top corporate sponsors of FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, took coordinated aim at the organization’s president, Sepp Blatter, on Friday, calling for him to resign and labeling him an obstacle to reform.

Mr. Blatter immediately rejected the demands of the four companies — Visa, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Anheuser-Busch InBev — suggesting that FIFA saw the public statements as little more than an idle threat.

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Yesterday , the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee  (TTOC) in collaboration with the US Olympic Committee (USOC) hosted  a Sports Marketing and High Performance Workshop at Olympic House,121 Abercromby Street.
Presenters were TTOC President Brian Lewis, Michael O'Conor , USOC Managing Director- Business Development and Michelle Brown, Director, Performance Operations & Strategic Planning.
Brown has responsibility for developing the annual and quadrennial plans for the USOC Sports Performance Department while  O'Conor is responsible for marketing revenue.

Marcel Aubut has formally resigned as President of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) today after several more allegations of sexual harassment were made against him.

The offical announced earlier in the week that he was stepping down on a temporary basis for the duration of an investigation which has been opened against him.

Since the 1970s with the introduction of the first reliable drug test and full-scale testing of athletes at the Summer Olympics in Munich, identifying dopers and imposing sanctions has evolved from traditional urine and blood tests to include proactive investigative techniques.

With the support of a dedicated anti-doping community that includes athletes, fans, coaches, governments, and law enforcement, WADA has been able to introduce innovative anti-doping regulations, allowing anti-doping organisations to apply sanctions in cases where there is no positive doping sample, yet where there is still evidence that a doping violation has occurred.