Minutes from the 2003 ITU Congress, Nice France
Athlete Committee Section

a) Athletes Committee: Isabelle Turcotte-Baird reported that since the
last Congress in Cancun, Mexico, November 2002, the following action has
been taken:

i) Regular communication (emails) to the committee members updating them
on issues arising, ITU action plan and discuss where we stand. (Topics
included: uniform issue and insurance issue in Australia, prize money,
SARS, rules in ITU events not always followed by organizers, race numbers,
world ranking points errors, New York World Cup issue, WADA, number of
world cups)

ii) Responded to athlete's emails/phone calls in a timely matter,
followed up and informed them on ITU's action plan on the issue.

iii) Wrote a document describing the ITU Athlete's Committee purpose and
objectives

iv) Wrote a recommendations report to ITU coming from the 2002
Athletes' Committee meeting in Cancun.

In the future, we have identified the following challenges as requiring our
action.
i) There is a need for the committee to meet at least twice a year, or
even at least once where ALL members attend and without the stress of
competing the next day. Budget for all athletes to attend the congress is
an issue, not enough money to send all athletes to meeting.
j) Athens 2004, technical issues, rules and regulations in general: need
involvement of an athlete representative in many of the ITU committees, so
there is an athlete's voice.

ITU President Les McDonald asked that Congress endorse the Athlete
Committees request to expand to include 2 athletes from Duathlon and Long
Distance Triathlon. Motion passed unanimously.