The members of ASOIF are the 26 International Sports Federation that are on the programme of the summer Olympic Games. At the meeting they became once again 28 ASOIF member federations taking part since the addition of the International Rugby Board and the International Golf Federation, representing the two new sports on the Olympic programme in 2016, were unanimously admitted to the association during the Assembly.

The ASOIF members agreed a new system on how they divide their share of the revenues from the London 2012 Games, on condition that the basis for the current system of grouping the federations is reviewed by the IOC post-2012 to be applied to the 2016 Games in Rio. The estimated ASOIF revenue share for 2012 is $375 million, up from $296 million for Beijing. The 26 members on the programme of London 2012 are divided into A-B-C-D categories, with Athletics alone in the top tier getting about $35 million next time around and sports in the B group receiving about $19 million each.

On the contentious question of the overall  Games revenue split, including the United States Olympic Committee share, progress have been made. According to ASOIF Director, Andrew Ryan:  “The sides are dealing with each other and the federations, although they want to keep up the pressure, are happy to wait and see how the current negotiations turn out in the next few weeks”.

The IOC has also decided to set up working groups and commissions to follow up on the 66 recommendations adopted at the IOC Congress in Copenhagen last November and ASOIF representation will be included in all. This will eventually feed through to any necessary changes in the Charter foreseen for the IOC Session in Durban in July 2011.

The ASOIF members tackled the area of autonomy by adopting new “model clauses” for disputes affecting national federations at a time of increasing government interference in the affairs of some national federations and NOCs.  While international federations have suspended national federations in some cases, the juridical basis for this has been unclear. Now there are model clauses developed with the help of FIFA and the UCI covering the legal aspects. ASOIF members have now requested reconfirmation from the IOC that only IFs have the authority to recognise a national federation in a given territory.

ASOIF members also unanimously called on the IOC to re-examine current rules on athlete Games apparel so that athletes would be allowed to wear national federation logos on their sleeves with the approval of the respective NOC.

ASOIF and the IOC plan to jointly carry out a full review of the Singapore Youth Olympic Games and the Youth Olympic Games project in general after the first edition this year.

On the anti-doping front, ASOIF is evaluating the data from an independent study of costs and is in the process of finalising conclusions and recommendations to make the fight against doping in sport more efficient. 

The members of ASOIF presented the following day the outcomes of their General Assembly to the IOC Executive Board in a joint session.