London 2012 Olympics: BOA taekwondo row over Aaron Cook's omission could lead to legal action The challenge of selecting athletes for a home Olympics has shone a light on the practices and procedures of some of the smaller governing bodies, who often have little experience of administering millions of pounds in public funding. As reported by Telegraph Sport, fencing has had to delay announcing its team following four appeals from athletes overlooked for 2012. On Wednesday, British Fencing issued a statement clarifying its position following allegations that the selection procedure may have been abused in some cases. Taekwondo's governance has been criticised in the past, particularly in a KPMG review and a UK Sport review. A fractured sport with several domestic bodies and two international governing bodies, it was challenged to come up with a structure competent to handle £4.8 million of investment over four years. On Wednesday the UK Taekwondo Development Council, a splinter organisation, wrote to Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt asking him to examine allegations of political bias in Cook's omission, and to look into the wider governance. The UK Sport review found concerns over selection that are now being played out in an unforgiving spotlight: "Concerns had been expressed that the policy and procedures for selecting athletes for national teams and for inclusion in the academy and world class performance programmes are insufficiently transparent and robust so that they could be open to allegations of personal favouritism and influence."