Alisa Camplin-Warner appointed ASC deputy chair

Alisa Camplin-Warner has been promoted to deputy chair of the Australian Sports Commission.

New deputy chair of the Australian Sports Commission Alisa Camplin. Picture: Sam Rosewarne

Alisa Camplin-Warner has been promoted to deputy chair of the Australian Sports Commission in the latest development of her post-Winter Olympic career in sports administration.

Retired aerial skier Camplin-Warner, who won Olympic gold at Salt Lake City in 2002, replaces Mark Stockwell after his departure in May.

Camplin-Warner also won bronze at the Turin Games in 2006 before retiring that year.

She has served on the ASC board since 2007 and has held leadership positions with the Collingwood AFL club, Olympic Winter Institute of Australia and Australia Sports Foundation.

The 42-year-old will travel to PyeongChang in South Korea in February as the Australia team’s deputy chef de mission.

As ASC deputy, she operates under chair John Wylie and on the same board as John Coates’ failed challenger to the Australian Olympic Committee presidency, Danni Roche.

Camplin-Warner said helping Australian athletes achieve long-term and sustainable success was a priority in her tenure.

Meanwhile, Coates kicked off a three-day evaluation of Tokyo’s preparations for the 2020 Olympics yesterday by emphasising the need for further cost cuts. The price tag of the 2020 Games has ballooned since Tokyo won the bid, even after a major cost-cutting effort.

Tokyo Olympic organisers have said that the estimated cost is now 1.4 trillion yen ($12.6 billion). When Tokyo was awarded the Olympics in September 2013, the total was 730 billion yen ($6.6bn).

“It is important to us that when the costs of the Games and the final analysis become public, they are going to be a reason to attract candidate cities,” said Coates, who heads the IOC’s co-ordination commission for the Tokyo Games. “To attract them rather than to scare them off.

“We want to work with you in that regard.”

Agencies