WCBS Board
Meeting in Taipei
It was during the World Ladies Pool
Championship that the WCBS arranged to hold its Board Meetings and
its General Assembly.
This was also an opportunity for the
IBSF, represented by Mike Peachey and myself, to again meet the
representatives of the WPBSA, WPA and the UMB.
The meeting was also a perfect
opportunity for a delegation from the WCBS, which included Mike and
three other Board Members, and together with the local K.O.C.
Organizing Committee to visit Kaohsiung to check the Venue, Hotel
and structures to be implemented for the World Games which will be
held in July 2009.
The WCBS is responsible for the
organisation of the Cue Sports Championships, when 16 Snooker
players, 16 Carom players, 16 men Pool players and 16 lady Pool
players will meet for one week for the great occasion of the World
Games.
The meeting was also important as the
President of the WCBS, Jorgen Sandman, announced his resignation
from his position at the WCBS General Assembly, explaining that
health problems and a particularly heavy work schedule were the
prime reasons for his resignation. With the full support of the
three divisions making up the WCBS, I was elected as President for
the rest of the current term up to the next GA in 2009.
I am particularly sensitive of the
trust that has been shown to me from the WPBSA, the UMB and the WPA,
and I made a commitment that I would do my utmost best and full
endeavour to prove the confidence that they have all placed in me.
The workload is particularly heavy with the organisation of the
World Games next year, the proposed revision of the Constitution and
the transfer of the headquarters of the Confederation.
I will in any case, true to my personal
principles and with the same policies as in force with the IBSF,
ensure of the complete transparency, full communication and
distribution of all work among the officers. The overall challenge
however, is quite different in that I have to add a new one for me,
of a constant quest to ensure a perfect harmony between all of the
three disciplines.
The WCBS is universal and this new
function is all the more rewarding!
News Courtesy: IBSF President - Pascal Guillaume
20 April 2008 - France
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