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Current Judo executives should resign en bloc says Blackman

May 29, 2014 Sports

 

Former Guyana Judo Association (GJA) executive William Blackman feels the solution to the present constitutional problems affecting Judo locally could be easily solved if the current Raoul Archer led executives of the Judo Association of Guyana (JAG) resign en bloc and new elections are held.
“An IMC must be installed to organize the elections and Andy Moore should be made President and myself secretary. Senior Vice-President of (Guyana Olympic Association) GOA, Mr. Charles Corbin is the cause of all of this mess and should not be involved because he knew all the facts and still ignored all the concerns we had,” Blackman, an International Judo Coach, said.
When Judo was resurrected in 2000, the name of the Association was changed from the Guyana Judo Association (GJA) to the Judo Association of Guyana (JAG).
Judo was dormant in the 1980s and when competitions resumed in 2000, everything seemed on the right track to take the sport forward but things started to go wrong in 2004 leading to two factions being formed in 2009.
It was revealed that the Association went to the GOA for Arbitration again and then last year Elections were held to ensure that the game took off. But things reportedly started to fall apart again.
“Our President (Raoul Archer) went to Brazil for a congress this year and came back with updates and told us that the IJF (the International Governing body for Judo) did not recognize JAG leaving us with a Constitutional crisis,” 2nd Dan Judo Instructor Bruce Fraser said recently.
In 2012 National lightweight judo champion Raul Lall of the Rising Sun Judo Dojo became the first Guyanese Judoka to compete at the Olympics but Berbician Judo Instructor Moore questioned how was it that Lall was allowed to participate at the Olympics if the World Governing Body did not recognize the JAG?

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