In the past week, there has been some upheaval in the US handball world. Apparently, a number of members of the USATH (US handball federation and National Governing Body for the US Olympic Committee) Board of Directors (BoD) have issues with a new set of by-laws hat were passed by the membership with an overwhelming majority of over 89% of the votes. Most recently, these BoD members have called in a short-notice, online emergency board meeting to remove USATH president Mike Hurdle and to overturn the membership vote on the by-laws. The emergency board meeting excluded Mike Hurdle's vote, but included a prohibited vote by proxy, in order to reach the 75% criterion for the removal of the president.
Incidentally, the new by-laws precipitate the removal of the current BoD. The USOC was made aware of the conflict as the dissenting members of the BoD contacted the USOC with their grievances. Consequentially, the USOC has frozen any funding to USATH and is considering to revoke its NGB status.

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