Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/01/10
By Joseph Yeh, CNA staff reporter

When the Legislature passed long-awaited revisions to the National Sports Act (國民體

(Taiwanese badminton player Tai Tzu-ying; CNA file photo)

育法) on Aug. 31, the government hailed it as a major step forward in ensuring that Taiwan’s often opaque sports associations will be run more openly and professionally.

A key change made was to require that all of these governing bodies of individual sports hold elections for their top posts within six months after the revisions took effect on Sept. 20.

The theory was that elections would help root out nepotism, get rid of association chiefs who have ruled their sports with an iron first or have been linked to scandals, and make the bodies more accountable to the athletes they serve.    [FULL  STORY]