Fencer puts Sascoc to the sword
Fencer Juliana Barrett sues Sascoc sports body over Olympics qualification policy
Fencer Juliana Barrett is suing the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) for more than R5.5m for failing to enter her into the 2016 Rio Games. The basis of her claim challenges Sascoc’s controversial policy to reject all avenues of continental qualification for the Olympics across all codes. The only exceptions were football and cycling. Barrett won the women’s epee competition at the zonal African qualifying tournament in Algeria in April 2016 and the Fencing Federation of SA recommended to Sascoc that she be entered for the Olympics. Barrett alleges that Sascoc "intentionally‚ alternatively negligently‚ and wrongfully" failed to enter her before the June 6 deadline to submit Olympic entries. She argues in her particulars of claim that according to its own constitution‚ Sascoc has the power to select‚ "on recommendation from the relevant national sports federations"‚ teams for international multi-sport competitions. "Thus‚ properly construed‚ if recomme...
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