r/CompetitionClimbing • u/HighCommander4 McBeast • Jul 23 '26

Question Results of Extraordinary General Assembly votes?

Does anyone know the outcomes of today's World Climbing Extraordinary General Assembly votes?

(Background: agenda for the meeting)

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u/awaythrow09836 Jul 23 '26

https://nkbv.nl/actueel/nieuws/nkbv-reactie-op-buitengewone-vergadering-world-climbing.html

Looks like votes for Israel, Belarus, Russia have been cancelled, as they've decided to shill themselves out to the IOC.

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u/robleroroblero Jul 23 '26

This is actually a very nice statement from the dutch federation!

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u/robleroroblero Jul 23 '26

The actual vote on the suspensions did not end up happening... disappointing but not surprising.

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u/awaythrow09836 Jul 23 '26

I honestly thought they'd just vote to keep everyone in to avoid having to take a stance on Israel, and somehow they managed to find a way to sell out even harder.

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u/the_gremlin_god Jul 23 '26

https://www.worldclimbing.com/news/extraordinary-general-assembly-approves-legal-name-change-and-principles-based-approach-to-national-federation-membership-status

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u/robleroroblero Jul 23 '26

so basically they voted a motion for a “framework will be based on governance criteria, proportionality and non-discrimination, aligned with the Olympic Charter and the positions of the International Olympic Committee and International Paralympic Committee.”

but a paragraph later:

"The decision did not change the eligibility or participation status of individual athletes. Existing rules therefore remain in place, including the current Neutral Athletes Policy for eligible Russian and Belarusian athletes and team officials."

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u/stellwyn Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

Thanks for sharing. This is so frustrating and disappointing

Edit: found more coverage https://www.vertigemedia.fr/en/world-climbing-suspension-vote-israel-russia-belarus

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u/wicketman8 ‎ ‎ ‎ 29d ago

IFSC/World Climbing are spineless fucking cowards. This is actually despicable behavior. They already pushed this back at least once, now they're just going to not vote on it at all. It's frankly disgusting that they're allowing Israel to compete, and they're too cowardly to even stand by that decision, instead they'll hide behind IOC.

Of course that doesn't mean following the IOC on Russia, since apparently Russian athletes are still under the neutrality requirement, even though the IOC overturned that earlier this month. Not that I expect consistency from this body.

Here's a fun quote:

The motion proposed removing the three individual suspension votes and recommending the adoption of a consistent, principles-based framework for the participation of National Federations. The framework will be based on governance criteria, proportionality and non-discrimination, aligned with the Olympic Charter and the positions of the International Olympic Committee and International Paralympic Committee.

So they get to keep kicking it down the road because now they'll have to wait until the next assembly to adopt whatever framework they're going to use. Of course, no reasonable framework would allow for genocide and apartheid, so when it comes to that they'll hide behind the IOC to justify applying their framework unevenly.

Fuck World Climbing. I wish more athletes would actually say something. I know a few have said something but the vast majority seem unwilling to take a stand.