Earlier this week Kuwait lodged a $1 billion (£804 million/€916 million) lawsuit against the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in the Lausanne Civil Court for suspending the country.

Kuwait was suspended from the IOC last year and barred from this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro due to Government interference.

A new sports law granted by the Sports Ministry, with the power to take over all sports bodies and National Federations, as well as being able to control decisions including appointments and financial matters, prompted this decision.

Since then, relations have detrioriated.

The KOC was dissolved and replaced with the body led by Sheikh Fahad.

This is not recognised by any international sporting body and IOC have sent a letter threatening him with legal action for infringing trademark and branding rules.

He was not invited to the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) General Assembly which closed here yesterday.

"[The] NOC is exerting efforts to lift the ban imposed by IOC and some international sport federations on Kuwaiti sport," Sheikh Fahad told the Kuwait News Agency. 

"Lifting the ban requires [the] cooperation of [local] clubs and sport federations with the NOC, which is the goal of the NOC."

Sheikh Fahad claims to have met with sporting leaders in Saudi Arabia and Arab sporting leaders in an attempt to gain local support towards resolving the dispute. 

But insidethegames understands there is no chance of the sports world backing down as they believe there is little chance of the legal case in Lausanne being successful.

Sheikh Fahad is believed to be an ally of Sheikh Salman al-Humoud Al-Sabah, Kuwait's Minister of State for Youth Affairs at the centre of the conflict with the sports world.

Sheikh Salman resigned as head of the Asian Shooting Confederation last year after standing unsuccessfully against Mexico's Olegario Vazquez Raña to become head of the International Shooting Sport Federation in 2014, an election he lost by 165 votes to 128.

He blamed his cousin, the ANOC and Olympic Council of Asia President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, for his defeat after it was alleged beforehand that he used his Government position to illegally collect votes.

It is thought that many of the subsequent developments in Kuwait have been a form of revenge against Sheikh Ahmad and the wider sports world.

There was no body representing the KOC participating at the ANOC General Assembly but Sheikh Fahad alleged figures representing the previous organisation were present.

He claimed to have referred their participation to their legal department to take "necessary action".

Athletes from Kuwait were only able to compete as independent athletes at Rio 2016, where shooter Fehaid Al-Deehani won what would have been a first Olympic gold for the Gulf nation in the double trap event.