GENERAL INFORMATIN AND HISTORY OF CAS——国际体育仲裁院（GAS）概览（英文版.docVIP

GENERAL INFORMATIN AND HISTORY OF CAS Origins At the beginning of the 1980s, the regular increase in the number of international sports-related disputes and the absence of any independent authority specialising in sports-related problems and authorised to pronounce binding decisions led the top sports organisations to reflect on the question of sports dispute resolution. In 1981, soon after his election as IOC President, H.E. Juan Antonio Samaranch had the idea of creating a sports-specific jurisdiction. The following year at the IOC Session held in Rome, IOC member H.E. Judge Kéba Mbaye, who