Glossary

Governance credibility

Governance credibility is the value driver behind practitioner sport: trust in the integrity of competition, the transparency of selection, and the legitimacy of the institutions that confer a title. NxtStride does not adjudicate governance credibility independently — recognition status within the IOC-recognised family (membership, continuity, standing) is the observable proxy the whole framework runs on. This is a stated methodological choice, not a claim that recognition status is identical to credibility itself.