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Ninvalle for AIBA Abu Dhabi EC meeting
Steve Ninvalle
President of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association Steve Ninvalle will depart Guyana next week to attend an AIBA Executive Committee (EC) meeting in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The meeting was first scheduled for Baku, Azerbaijan but was shifted to the gulf state approximately two weeks ago.
The EC meeting will be held from July 11 to 14 and is expected to be the last gathering of the current EC before elections, slated for Moscow, Russia early in October.
AIBA has 203 affiliated countries over nine thousand boxers and five thousand officials but has been in turmoil in recent times following the resignation of Taiwanese Dr. Ching-Kuo Wu last October. Since then the body has had two interim presidents with the present Gafur Rakhimov of Uzbekistan being accused by the USA of having ties to the drug trade.
The International Olympic Committee has since threatened to pull boxing from the 2020 Olympics if AIBA does not reform. In 2014 in South Korea, Ninvalle became the first person from CARICOM to be elected to the Executive Committee of the 71 year old AIBA.
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