Dominican Mejia Oviedo to be proposed as new COI Member
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic,
August 11, 2017 –
Dominican Republic’s Luis Mejía Oviedo will be one of nine new
members proposed by the Executive Board of the International
Olympic Committee for election at the IOC Session in Lima, Peru
from September 13 to 16.
Mejía Oviedo is one of five individual members –three women and
two men- while the other four represent the National Olympic
Committees and the International Federations.
Alongside Mejia Oviedo the individual members are Baklai
Temengil of Palau, Kristin Kloster Aasen of Norway, Khunying
Patama Leeswadtrakul of Thailand and Jiri Kejval of Czech
Republic.
Mejía Oviedo and Kejval are presidents of their respective
National Olympic Committees, while Temengil and Kloster Aasen
NOC are vice presidents. Leeswadtrakul is the president of the
Thailand’s Badminton Association.
Representing National Olympic Committees Continental
Associations will be proposed Neven Ivan Ilic Alvarez of Chile
from PASO and Khalid Muhammad Al Zubair, president of the Oman
Olympic Committee who presides the Arab Continental Association
of NOC.
The representatives of International Federations will be
proposed Jean-Christophe Rolland of France, president of the
World Rowing, and Ingmar de Vos of Belgium, president of the
International Federation of Equestrian Sports.
These nine candidates offer various skillsets and come from
backgrounds as diverse as sports, management, volunteering,
engineering, business administration, commerce and tourism, the
media and NGOs. All of them can bring skills and experience
needed by the IOC, and aim to further strengthen the ranks of
the Olympic Movement in the years to come.
All proposed members have been vetted by the IOC Ethics
Commission, which has conducted integrity checks. |