In November 2012 several new, younger, members were elected to the BAAA board, including Iram Lewis and Harrison Petty and Carl Oliver. Several of the new members were excluded from the 2013 CARIFTA Games and 2014 IAAF World Relays organising committees. A vote of no confidence in all the executive board was taken at a BAAA general meeting in response. Members of the board previously voted to remove Lewis, Petty and Oliver, but the three challenged the legality of the move. The BAAA board later voted to suspend Sands as president for 30 days in November 2013. He issued a video response disputing the validity of the motion – he revealed that two groups within the BAAA had formed and each attended only their own meetings – one organised by the president, the others organised by the general secretary Oliver.