“As we agreed, on Wednesday, February 12 at the National Stadium, another meeting of the presidents of Polish unions with Minister Nitras took place to discuss the shape of the MSiT order again and try to relieve its content. But the most interesting and most important was what happened after more than two hours of over two hours the meeting. Today, Sport.pl journalists Kacper Sosnowski and Dawid Szymczak informed.
Presidents of Polish unions sent a letter to Piesiewicz. Here is its content
The result of this discussion? The activists decided to write a letter to the President of the PKol, in which they present their comments and call for him to give up his position. Initially, 22 presidents of union signed the letter. What if Piesiewicz does not resign? In this case, activists will try to dismiss it during the general meeting.
“The presidents wanted to keep their letter to the head of the Polish United Workers' Party secret and not play this matter through the media,” said Sport.pl.
This apparently failed. He reached the content of the letter Onet Sports Reviewwho published it in full.
Content of the letter to the President of PKol:
“Dear Mr. President,
When you were elected president of the Polish Olympic Committee in April 2023, we hoped that you would continue the way of predecessors who disseminated the ideas and Olympic values in Poland, and at the center of their interest were athletes. You promised that we would create the Olympic Committee “Together”, and the four -year term will give “all the great satisfaction with the achievements”. Instead, for months, however, we have been dealing with the abuse of the position of the President of PKol for personal purposes and self -promotion against the background of the most outstanding Polish athletes. We would like to remind you that PKol should be a guardian of the Olympic ideas, such as honesty, equality, solidarity, transparency and fair play principles. The foundation for each President of the PKOK should be the Olympic card, according to which the role of the National Olympic committees is to promote fundamental principles of Olympism, in particular in the field of sport and education. Meanwhile, the PKol, which has over 100 years of tradition, during your rule was brought to the role of the office of dubious quality of your person's promotion.
Our deep anxiety is caused by the results of the explanatory proceedings conducted by the President of the Capital City of Warsaw in the field of conducting the Committee's financial economy. The supervisory authority assessed that the financial management was carried out in violation of the provisions of the Act on Associations and the PKol statute. This anxiety is intensified by the report of the Audit Committee in the PKol, which clearly indicates the lack of transparency in the Polish Olympic Committee. We read in it that there are no legal grounds that would regulate the manner and legal form of determining your remuneration. Remuneration that none of your predecessors received.
The report from the Audit Committee shows that sponsorship agreements that you concluded with PKOs partners, and which de facto implemented sports relationships, were not known to relationships, which exposed them to high financial penalties. From the same report we learned that PKol gave Polish unions 51% of all sponsorship influence, the rest remained in your gesture and served to achieve the goals unknown to us. The charm of bitterness was poured out by the fact that the Audit Committee reports, not providing us to the board of the PKol. The fact that we learn from newspapers about the findings of the Polish United Workers' Party bodies, and not from the Lord violates the authority not only of ours but the entire institution.
The way you manage the Committee by the Lord hits the image of the Polish United Workers' Party and the broadly understood sports environment, which has its financial consequences. The withdrawal of business partners is an expression of a lack of trust in your activities and the result of changing the authority of the PKol into minor through activities contrary to the Olympic card. This also caused negative consequences for sporting associations, which, as a result of the lack of funds from the PKol, sometimes had to stop the implementation of some tasks. We are approaching half the term and after this period the balance of your rule is clearly negative. We are disappointed that athletes are not in the center of your interest. It is unacceptable that a public discussion was underway for nearly half a year around the delay in paying the financial bonuses that players and coaches expected for their special achievements at the XXXIII Paris Olympics 2024 Olympics.
Let us remind you that your decisions caused a deep crisis in cooperation with the Polish cycling union, which took away some players a chance for the Olympic start. In connection with the lack of any reflection on your part and, above all, the lack of perspective to improve the current situation, the undersigned, we call the Lord to resign from the position of the President of the Polish Olympic Committee for the good of Polish sport and Olympicism. Only your resignation will open the way to rebuild the authority due to the Polish Olympic Committee “
Will Piesiewicz bend? His previous actions indicate that he will try to defend his job. He translated the meeting of the PKOK board, which was to take place at the end of February, he also wants to organize private meetings with the presidents of sports unions.