Summer sports federations have set up a task force to study their anti-doping programmes as Olympic officials consider turning over all drug-testing to an independent body.
For their part, the leaders of Japan's three largest banking federations told Mr. Takenaka's task force on Tuesday that they had enough money to write off their nonperforming loans and protect against future losses without an infusion of tax money, the leading business newspaper, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, reported.
Meanwhile Kenya's government and Olympic federation are yet to confirm that a task force to investigate allegations of a doping culture in their set-up, promised 12 months ago, has been established.
Mr. Mateo said the federation was also urging the Police Department to expand a task force of undercover officers who drive cabs.
The ASOIF council also set up a task force to look into how the federations are governed.
The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations said the task force will be headed by the archery federation president Ugur Erdener, who also chairs the IOC's medical commission.
Speaking in Edinburgh ahead of today's International Board meeting, Blatter also revealed that Fifa will be setting up a new anti-racism task force, led by Jeffrey Webb, president of the CONCACAF federation of countries in north and central America and the Caribbean.
At various times he was executive vice president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and of the UJA-Federation of New York's Joint Campaign as well as chairman of a task force on a fiscal crisis in New York City, a panel of leaders of major voluntary agencies sponsored by the Community Council of Greater New York.
The group, which oversees about 2,500 events each year, has assembled a task force to investigate safety issues stemming from Humble's death, so that "the federation does not find its hands tied in the future when a matter of animal welfare like this presents itself," Mr. Long said.
The government has a task force looking at the safety of women and the police, and two business federations, FICCI and the CII, are looking at how treatment of women at work can be improved.
