British Athletes Commission

The British Athletes Commission Ltd
Public
Headquarters London, England, United Kingdom
Key people
Pete Gardner, chief executive
Karen Pickering, chair
Website www.BritishAthletes.org

The British Athletes Commission (BAC) was set up in 2004 to represent the interests of athletes in Great Britain to the key decision makers in sport, and to help athletes in member sports set up and maintain athlete representative structures within their sport.

The BAC is an independent organisation representing the views of athletes to major decision making bodies such as the BOA, UK Sport and NGBs.[1]

The mission of the BAC is to ensure that UK athletes in world class performance systems train and compete within a fair, supportive and transparent system, which gives them the best opportunity of reaching their sporting goals, and helps prepare them for success in life after sport.

Structure

The Executive consists of:

There are also places on the executive for non voting members from the BAC partner organisations, UK Sport, the British Olympic Association, and the BPA.

The work of the BAC falls into 6 areas (represented issues) with at least one director responsible for each. The represented issues are:

Specific Responsibilities

Olympics

Areas of operation:

Areas of Representation:

On important decisions that require each of the Olympic Sports to vote, the representatives from British Athletes Council from the Olympic Sports votes by email, post or telephone.

Paralympics

Areas of Operation:

Areas of Representation:

On important decisions that require each of the Paralympic Sports to vote, the representatives from British Athletes Council from the Paralympic Sports will be asked to vote by email, post or telephone.

World Class Sport

Areas of Operation:

Areas of Representation:

On important decisions that require each of the World Class Sports to vote, the representatives from British Athletes Council from the World Class Sports vote by email, post or telephone.

Anti Doping

Non Olympic Sport

Athlete Services

References

External links

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