The placement of sensationalist semi-information deserves the attention of the public only with a valid argumentation, said the Acting General Secretary of the Montenegrin Olympic Committee (COK) Igor Vušurović.
The holder of the Olympic gold medal, commenting on the process and decision-making on co-financing of national sports federations, said that in the past six years, efforts have been made to enthrone the head of complete Montenegrin sports in the form and actions of the first man of the ministry or administration.
Vušurović emphasized that, when he says that, he is not referring to Vasilij Lalošević.
"In a previously prepared decision with a personal twist, the director of the Administration through the back door introduces top Montenegrin athletes into the commissions who, on the first occasion, give up their work due to lack of seriousness. The other two rightly react to the decision of the first man of the Administration in relation to their proposals as members of the commission," Vušurović said in a statement delivered to the MINA agency.
He emphasized that the thesis of the incumbent that, after successful sports careers, athletes should be active participants in society falls flat.
"Their membership in the commissions is pro forma, because he, the Sports and Youth Administration, knows everything even without them, who and how many. I am of the opinion that the previous contests were not followed by this much sensationalism, pomp, petty politicking and bombastic announcements about painful knowledge that ready for disclosure, and they concern international documents," Vušurović said.
He pointed out that the populist stories about the percentage of people who play sports until the youth leave Montenegro, the recognition of the Kosovo Olympic Committee and the medals of their judokas, whose budget for this year is 700 thousand euros, do not lead to a solution to the situation in which Montenegrin sports find itself.
"Unfortunately, an employee of the Administration does not have a day of work experience in any of the national associations that expect money from the budget, so he cannot know what it is like when you are looking for a sponsor, making a payment plan to suppliers, feeling ashamed because you cannot meet the deadlines due to a lack of payment funds equipment because your last payment to the association's account was seven months ago," Vušurović said.
According to him, that part of knowledge of sports is acquired through practice and experience of working in associations, which in Montenegro is a rather stressful and thankless job.
Vušurović believes that the Administration for Sports and Youth, apart from monitoring the expenditure of budget funds, should also implement the strategy for the development of sports in Montenegro.
"Since Montenegro currently does not have such a strategic document, how is the state's interest realized, Vušurović asked.
Vušurović, as someone who successfully organized international competitions in Montenegro and worked according to the CDM Manual publications of the organizing committees of the games in Tokyo and Beijing, said that he did not know which documents were in question when the purchase of tickets for the mentioned competitions was mentioned because there were none there were.
"The discrepancy in this case can be a term from psychology, not at all related to the discrepancy between national and international reporting that is followed by audit reports. The placement of sensationalistic semi-information deserves publication and attention of our public only with valid argumentation, and until then, the Board of Directors of COK at the session on Tuesday will make a decision on the next steps of the nominally umbrella sports organization in Montenegro," Vušurović said.
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