Cameroon Sports Federations always in turbulence

One year before the end of the Olympiad (period between two Olympic Games) from 2012 to 2016, the state of many sports federations is not the best.

It must be said that the renewal of the executive in 2013 has not been a bed of roses.

Battles between clans and trench warfare, general meetings canceled and times of suspensions by international guardianship is difficult to navigate, especially since it is often the most prominent federations that find themselves in the spotlight.

The most emblematic case concerns the Cameroon Football Federation, which lives almost on life support since the establishment of the Standards Committee in July 2013 after controversial elections and a suspension of Cameroon internationally. This structure was to "normalize" things in Tsinga in eight months, but it is already two years. And in a context where the fratricidal battles continue to rage, one may ask when all these will end? One thing is certain in any case, it's been an Olympiad for nothing in football.

The Cameroonian rugby either was not spared in recent years by infighting that penalized top athletes. Already suspended by the International Rugby Board, Cameroon had been reinstated after new elections were held last year. But a conflict between the new president and vice president will lead the federation to a new suspension. Besides this disorder, the management of certain subsidies by Cameroonian officials is also involved. Consequently, rugby is the dead weight.

The Cameroonian volleyball federation is obviously also a problem of men since the president and one of his vice-presidents are at loggerheads. At the point where the two general meetings called were canceled in less than three months. If it is not to generalize, the Cameroonian sports movement is not spared; fighting, baseball and softball, weightlifting, power lifting, badminton or judo. Battles are not without consequences for athletes who are the main concern.

Amid this situation, the role of the Chamber of Conciliation and Arbitration of the National Olympic and Sports Committee of Cameroon (CNOSC) is increasingly questioned. Like that of the Ministry of Sports and Physical Education sometimes intervening in some way in federations.

The existence of the instance of CNOSC, which meets the requirements of the International Olympic Committee, has in any case handled these conflicts. And its decisions have often been the subject of several complaints.

Losers complain, you might say. In any case, one can clearly worry about a situation that is not to fix the Cameroonian sport. Yet there is reason for hope if we stick for example to the situation of the Cameroonian Cycling Federation. If one cannot say that there is more complaints from that side, one can still recognize that it has put order into its business after two years of conflict.