Athletes commission warns against punishing Wallace – 04/15/2023 – Sport

The controversy over the punishment by the Ethics Council of the COB (Brazilian Olympic Committee) against Wallace, from Sada Cruzeiro, has a new front: the Committee’s own athletes’ commission.

In a post on social media this Friday, the body opined that the three-month hook applied to the athlete sets “extremely harmful precedents for the Olympic movement.”

“On March 13 of this year, we sent an official letter to the COB’s Ethics Committee expressing our opinion that it is not up to said Council to judge cases that happen outside the scope of sports activity, as stated in the COB’s Code of Ethical Conduct, more specifically in Article 3, both in the caput and in the sole paragraph, where it is stated that the Code ‘governs acts and legal relationships constituted within the scope of sports activity'”, says a text published on the commission’s Instagram.

The Ethics Council, a body independent of the COB board, suspended Wallace over a social media post on January 31.

He was in a shooting club, with a gun in his hand and opened the application’s question box to answer questions from his followers. One of them questioned whether he would use that revolver to shoot the President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT). Wallace responded with the opening poll questioning who would do that.

The suspension would remove the athlete from the final stages of the Men’s Volleyball Super League, scheduled to start this Saturday (15).

Last Wednesday, he and Sada Cruzeiro obtained an injunction in the modality’s STJD (Superior Court of Sports Justice), interrupting the punishment until the judgment of the merits of the appeal presented. This would free you to enter the court.

The question is whether the court’s decision is valid or not, since the COB is the highest body for Olympic sports in Brazil. In a note, the Ethics Council confirmed that Wallace must comply with the suspension or the CBV (Brazilian Volleyball Confederation) will suffer “very serious” punishments.

“It is legally and logically non-existent decision of the Sports Court of the Confederation linked to the COB system, which contradicts the decision of the Ethics Committee of the Brazilian Olympic Committee, due to the explicit linkage of the CBV to the Olympic system, as a member. This is due to the fact that the STJD itself has declared itself incompetent – and correctly – to judge the subject matter of the present proceeding”, said the body.

Faced with the impasse, the CBV decided to postpone the match of Sada Cruzeiro against Farma Conde Vôlei de São José dos Campos. The confrontation moved from this Saturday to next Wednesday (19).