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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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