Sports FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2015 Pearson, Tallent lead Australia team for worlds SYDNEY: World medallists Sally Pearson, Kim Nicholas Hough (110m hurdles), and Youth Team Mickle and Jared Tallent headline Australia’s 26- Olympic Games medallist Brandon Starc (high Men strong track and field team named yesterday for jump). 800m: Jeff Riseley, Alex Rowe. 110m hurdles: the world championships in Beijing in August. “The intention of the selection policy is to nomi- Nicholas Hough. High jump: Joel Baden, Brandon Starc. Pearson (100m hurdles), Mickle (javelin) and nate the most competitive possible team to repre- Discus: Julian Wruck. Javelin: Hamish Peacock. 20km Tallent (20km walk, 50km walk) all won medals at sent Australia for Beijing 2015,” Athletics Australia walk: Dane Bird-Smith, Jared Tallent. 50km walk: Chris the Moscow championships two years ago. chairman of selectors Dion Russell said. Erickson, Jared Tallent. The Australian squad also includes “Thirteen of the athletes selected themselves as Commonwealth champions Eleanor Patterson a national champions with at least one IAAF qualifi- Women (high jump), Alana Boyd (pole vault) and Dani cation standard.” 100m: Melissa Breen. 200m: Ella Nelson. 5000m: Samuels (discus throw), as well as national record Selectors will decide next month on the final Eloise Wellings. 100m hurdles: Michelle Jenneke, Sally holders Melissa Breen (100m) and Alex Rowe line-up for the men’s and women’s marathon, Pearson. 400m hurdles: Lauren Wells. 3000m steeple- (800m). 10,000m and 50km walk. The 46-strong Australian chase: Madeline Heiner, Victoria Mitchell. High jump: Others to join the team from the recently com- squad at the 2013 world championships won three Eleanor Patterson. Pole vault: Alana Boyd, Nina pleted national championships include medals (two silver, one bronze). Kennedy. Long jump: Brooke Stratton. Discus: Dani Commonwealth Games finalist Jeff Riseley (800m), This year’s team will prepare for the August 22- Samuels. Javelin: Kim Mickle, Kathryn Mitchell, Kelsey- IAAF World Junior Championships medallist 30 Beijing worlds in Wakayama, Japan. Lee Roberts. — AFP IOC releases compensation figures for Bach, members LONDON: In what it described as a vital show of office space and equipment required for IOC financial transparency, the International business in their home countries. The IOC said Olympic Committee on Thursday disclosed how Bach works 365 days a year but will forego the much its members receive in allowances and per daily reimbursements received by others mem- diem payments - including an annual 225,000 bers. While in the past the president received euro ($242,000) sum for President Thomas Bach. those allowances, “for the sake of transparency The IOC ethics commission urged all other the indemnity will now come from one single sports organizations in the Olympic movement source,” the IOC said. to follow suit and publish their payment policies, The ethics commission set a single fixed sum an appeal that will put pressure especially on - linked to inflation - of 225,000 ($242,000) “to FIFA and its president, Sepp Blatter. cover some of the president’s personal costs The IOC released its “indemnity policy” cover- related to the execution of his function.” “This procedure will lead to savings for the IOC and to transparency,” the committee said. The figure does not include Bach’s housing in Lausanne, Switzerland. The IOC pays for his accommodation in a suite at the Lausanne Palace hotel, where predecessors Jacques Rogge and Juan Antonio Samaranch also resided dur- ing their years in office. Salaried position The issue of whether the IOC presidency should be a salaried position has been debated BIRMINGHAM: In this April 11, 2010 file photo, Carmen Jorda of Spain, slides off the track dur- for years. Rogge, near the end of his term, pro- ing the Indy Grand Prix of Alabama Firestone Indy Lights Series auto race at Barber posed that his successor be paid, but the idea Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala. There’s a whiff of sexual apartheid in the latest madcap was dropped when most of the candidates said suggestion from F1’s billionaire boss Bernie Ecclestone, that teams should launch a champi- they would not accept a salary. onship exclusively for women. — AP One candidate, Sergei Bubka, said he backed the idea because the presidency is a full-time job. But he said he would have donated his Surgery to sideline Pedrosa LAUSANNE: In this Wednesday July 9, 2014 salary to charity because he was well-off enough file photo, International Olympic Committee to go without pay. The IOC decision to release (IOC) President Thomas Bach speaks during the figures contrasts with the secrecy of other for at least two races a press conference after an executive board bodies such as FIFA. meeting at the IOC headquarters in “The IOC ethics commission invites all the MADRID: Repsol Honda rider Dani Pedrosa tors and medical professionals that I trust, Lausanne, Switzerland. — AP sports organizations of the Olympic movement will miss at least two races after deciding to they are all in agreement that this is the only to establish a similar policy and make this public, undergo more surgery to try to fix a persistent option for me. ing the reimbursements for Bach and other in order to increase transparency within the arm problem, the Spaniard’s team said yester- “We will have the surgery on Friday and members as part of the “Olympic Agenda 2020” sports movement,” Ndiaye wrote. day. they will use a special technique to help close reforms passed in December. “Among the princi- The presidents of FIFA and European soccer Pedrosa, 29, will go under the knife in the wound to try and prevent this issue con- ples of good governance for sports organiza- body UEFA do receive salaries, but they have not Madrid today, with an estimated recovery tinuing to affect me.” Pedrosa, whose compa- tions, transparency is certainly one of the most been made public. Blatter, whose organization period of four to six weeks, meaning he will triot Marquez has won the last two champi- important,” IOC ethics commission chairman has been dogged by financial and corruption definitely miss the MotoGP in the United onships, has not won a race since the Czech Youssoupha Ndiaye said in a letter to members. scandals, said in the past that his annual salary States on April 12 and the race in Argentina a Grand Prix last August. — Reuters “It is the IOC’s responsibility to apply this to its was “perhaps a bit more” than $1 million. week later, Repsol Honda said. own governance and ... to increase the trans- According to a report in Britain’s Sunday Test rider Hiroshi Aoyama will temporari- parency of its management.” Times newspaper last year, members of the FIFA ly take Pedrosa’s place in the team along- IOC presidents and members are considered executive committee receive $200,000 a year, as side world champion Marc Marquez, they volunteers and do not receive a salary, but their well as $500 per diems. added. travel, housing costs and other expenses on UEFA President Michel Platini’s annual salary Pedrosa is suffering from a problem com- Olympic duty are covered. The IOC said execu- has been reported in a French business maga- mon among motorcycle racers. Pressure tive board members and commission chairs will zine as 3.2 million euros ($3.4 million). Also builds up in the forearm, causing intense receive $900 daily on Olympic business, includ- Thursday, the IOC announced that Paquerette pain, and makes riding a bike exceptionally ing the day before and after meetings to cover Girard Zappelli would serve in the newly created difficult when the muscle becomes too big for travel days. Regular IOC members will receive position of chief ethics and compliance officer. the ‘sack’ that it sits in. $450 a day at meetings and at the Olympics. She has worked for years as a special representa- “Obviously this isn’t the news I wanted to Members can also receive an annual sum of tive to the ethics commission. Will Keenan was be sharing with everyone,” Pedrosa said. $7,000 for “administrative support,” referring to appointed chief internal audit officer. — AP “However, after speaking with some key doc- Dani Pedrosa.