Colorado Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell said U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) chief executive Lloyd Ward should follow its former president Marty Mankamyer and resign.
Campbell said Ward told the Senate Commerce Committee last week that if there wasn’t confidence in him, he would resign if Mankamyer did. “Well, she has”, said Campbell.
Executive committee member Herb Perez and Pat Rodgers, the USOC’s former ethics officer, have also urged Ward to step down.
The Denver Post reports that interim president William Martin, the University of Michigan’s athletic director, is one of three front-runners named by insiders to head the USOC.
The Post, citing unnamed USOC sources, reports that the other two front-runners to replace Mankamyer are Paul George, a Massachusetts lawyer and a USOC vice president, and Michael McManus Jr., a USOC board member and the chief executive officer of Misonix Inc., an ultrasonic technology company in Farmingdale, N.Y.
