Winter Olympics 2010: British bobsledder Adam Pengilly elected onto IOC committee

By Jacquelin Magnay in Vancouver Published: 8:38AM GMT twenty-five February 2010

Easy does it: Britain"s Adam Pengilly in movement at Whistler shifting centre Photo: PA

Pengilly polled 615 votes from the athletes at the Vancouver Winter Olympics circumference only forward of the alternative inaugurated part of ,womens hockey player Angela Ruggiero, of the United States.

Pengilly,32, from Taunton, will right away be a entirely fledged IOC part of for the subsequent eight years, together with the critical duration heading up to the London 2012 Olympics. He joins the Princess Royal, Sir Craig Reedie and Sir Philip Craven as British IOC members.

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In his choosing debate Pengilly had stressed how the athletes are the heart and essence of the Olympic Games.

Unfortunately, I listen to from athletes revelation of sporting governing body and administration department receiving all carry out out of their hands - of government regularly becoming different policies, or simply you do their pursuit poorly. And each time, it is the contestant who suffers., he said.

Therefore it is critical that we are mainly concerned in the decision-making and formulation of key issues in Olympic sport.

Pengilly pronounced he longed for to helop win the quarrel opposite doping, urge the drug contrast locale system, see at a career passing from one to another after competition and to chellenge the Olympic Committees and inhabitant federations to urge their practices.

Clearly Im really vehement to be representing the worlds athletes, and in sold winter athletes., Pengilly pronounced after conference the choosing results.

"It is a genuine payoff to be inaugurated by my peers and I will paint them to the really most appropriate of my ability.

"I would additionally similar to to try and safeguard that the family groups of athletes, who have helped and upheld them so much, have correct entrance to suffer the Olympic experience. To grasp this, I will plead re-introducing the host family programme.