Election of new members of IPC Athletes' Council begin
Election of new members of IPC Athletes' Council begin
Updated：2008-09-05 19:39:36
(BEIJING, September 5) -- Elections of new members to the Athletes' Council (AC) of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) began yesterday, September 4, just two days before the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Paralympic Games.
Updated：2008-09-05 19:39:36
(BEIJING, September 5) -- Elections of new members to the Athletes' Council (AC) of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) began yesterday, September 4, just two days before the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Paralympic Games.
The voting stations at the Beijing Paralympic Village will be open September 4-15 while the stations in Hong Kong and Qingdao will be open September 5-8.
Athletes at the voting centers vote in a private room and can select three to six athletes from a ballot of 14 eligible candidates. All voters receive one ballot and a lovely Fu Niu Lele, the official mascot of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games.
The IPC Athletes' Council is the collective voice of Paralympic athletes within the IPC and the greater Paralympic Movement. It works to ensure effective athlete representation on all IPC committees and commissions as well as to create other opportunities for athlete representation both within and outside the IPC.
The Council is composed of nine Paralympic athlete representatives elected for a four-year term; six athlete representatives are elected from summer sports and three from winter sports. Candidates are nominated by their respective National Paralympic Committees (NPC) and must have competed at a Paralympic Games within the previous eight years.
The 14 candidates:
Athanasios Barakas, Athletics, Greece
David Smetanine, Swimming, France
Heinz Frei, Athletics, Switzerland
Kim Im-yeon, Shooting, Republic of Korea
Joost de Hoogh, Swimming, the Netherlands
Lars Löfström, Sailing, Sweden
Ljiljana Ljubisic, Athletics, Canada
Maha Bargouthi, Table Tennis, Jordan
Marketa Sidkova, Archery, Czech Republic
Michael Teuber, Cycling, Germany
Moises Fuentes Garcia, Swimming, Colombia
Robert (Bob) Balk, Athletics, the United States
Teresa Perales, Swimming, Spain
Yu Chui-yee, Wheelchair Fencing, Hong Kong
Athletes at the voting centers vote in a private room and can select three to six athletes from a ballot of 14 eligible candidates. All voters receive one ballot and a lovely Fu Niu Lele, the official mascot of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games.
The IPC Athletes' Council is the collective voice of Paralympic athletes within the IPC and the greater Paralympic Movement. It works to ensure effective athlete representation on all IPC committees and commissions as well as to create other opportunities for athlete representation both within and outside the IPC.
The Council is composed of nine Paralympic athlete representatives elected for a four-year term; six athlete representatives are elected from summer sports and three from winter sports. Candidates are nominated by their respective National Paralympic Committees (NPC) and must have competed at a Paralympic Games within the previous eight years.
The 14 candidates:
Athanasios Barakas, Athletics, Greece
David Smetanine, Swimming, France
Heinz Frei, Athletics, Switzerland
Kim Im-yeon, Shooting, Republic of Korea
Joost de Hoogh, Swimming, the Netherlands
Lars Löfström, Sailing, Sweden
Ljiljana Ljubisic, Athletics, Canada
Maha Bargouthi, Table Tennis, Jordan
Marketa Sidkova, Archery, Czech Republic
Michael Teuber, Cycling, Germany
Moises Fuentes Garcia, Swimming, Colombia
Robert (Bob) Balk, Athletics, the United States
Teresa Perales, Swimming, Spain
Yu Chui-yee, Wheelchair Fencing, Hong Kong