More than 90 athletes seeking to reform Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton don’t know what lies around the next curve after the national governing body’s annual general meeting was adjourned Sept. 29 in Calgary.
President and acting CEO Sarah Storey tabled the annual financial report, but refused to allow a vote on her leadership due to alleged concerns over membership eligibility.
“A lot of us are hanging around just to kind of see the change happen and maybe if the change is positive, stick around for another Olympics,” Rahneva said in an interview. “I think Canada can be such a medal contender, in skeleton and bobsleigh, there's so much potential here, we're just severely under-resourced. That comes from the current leadership.”
Frustration with Storey’s leadership had festered since her original 2014 election. As vice-president, she helped draft a new version of BCS bylaws in 2013 and was accused of using those new rules to win the presidency. Storey is also the BCS acting chief executive, despite the Canadian Sport Governance Code stating that no board member should be chief executive during their term as a director.
The financial report showed Sport Canada contributed 73% of BCS’s $4.12 million revenue in the year ended March 31, 2022, which also included $412,600 from the Canadian Olympic Committee, $278,176 from sponsors, and $210,530 from IBSF. “I would like to hold BCS accountable to the bylaws and policies and the procedure of the meeting,” Rahneva said. “And so the motion was seconded right away, when I first put it forward, by another athlete. I said you guys have to be accountable to your policies, you can’t just use the policies when it suits you.”
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