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SUNDAY CHRONICLE, September 23, 2018
AIBA allocates US$300 000 for training of Caribbean boxing officials THE Jamaica Boxing Board is embarking on a campaign to train more officials locally and across the region, thanks to an allocation of US$300 000 over the next three years from the International Boxing Association (AIBA). The regional body, the National Boxing Federations of the Caribbean, was allocated US$80 000 for 2018, US$110 000 for 2019, and US$110 000 for 2020. The funds were made available following a presentation by JBB president Stephen Jones and Marco Depersoy from Aruba earlier this year that impressed the AIBA executive. “The Executive Committee was impressed by the extent to which the Caribbean working group went to give a detailed picture of the challenges the Caribbean region faces in attempting to provide quality boxing programmes for its members as well as the creative steps that they are taking in order to continue to raise the level of boxing and participation in the region,” said the letter sent to the Caribbean over the signature of AIBA interim president Gafur Rahimov. “The Executive Committee was impressed by the Caribbean’s desire to widen the scope of its programme
Jamaica Boxing Board General Secretary Leroy Brown (left) outlined this week that AIBA has allocated funds to facilitate training for boxing officials across the region.
outreaches to ensure better development of boxers, coaches, referees, and judges, ITOs, ringside doctors and cutmen. The Executive Committee finds that the presentation for the Caribbean directly aligned with the goals and objectives or AIBA and AMBC. Now that it has access to the funds, the JBBC said it wants to begin recruitment and training as early as December. “We are in need of boxing officials in Jamaica and we are starting a programme on that. We are going on a recruitment drive for boxing officials,” said the boxing board’s General Secretary Leroy Brown.
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“We are also going into training mode where our current officials are concerned. We are going to be having a couple of seminars and we are hoping that, possibly in December, we will be able to get an official from AIBA, who will come to Jamaica, guide us and test some of our officials so that we can have some more international
officials.” Brown said he is inviting Jamaica’s Caribbean neighbours to send their candidates to the seminars and the testing sessions. He said that there will also be opportunities for the country’s widening pool of boxers, boosted by the addition of about 150 youngsters who have been training over
the past two years under the country’s Fight for Peace programme. Several fighters from the programme that uses boxing to channel youngsters away from a violent lifestyle will be on show on fight cards on October 6 and November 17 in Kingston and Montego Bay, respectively. “There are lots of youngsters out there who are going to use this to make themselves better boxers and boxing can make you into a millionaire if you are handled properly,” Brown said. “Right now we have 150 boxers who have been nurtured and are on the brink of breaking out and making themselves into good boxers, first in Jamaica as amateurs then they move to the professional scene then they go to the national scene, so the horizon is looking great at this moment.” (SportsMax)
Injury worries real, as T&T head off to volleyball World Championships PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Fitness will be a serious consideration for Trinidad and Tobago’s women in their debut outing at the volleyball World Championship starting next weekend in Japan. Head coach Francisco Cruz said coming out of the last tournament, several key players were carrying injuries which would impact their final preparation for the September 29 to October 20 event. “The players, who finished the last tournament, the CAC, they have a few injured,” Cruz told the NewsDay here. “Some players have problems in the ankle, some players in the knee. For example, (Krystle) Esdelle has a problem in the shoulder. Nobody is ready. Everybody has these problems. They maybe can play because they (may) recover a little but ready, ready? They are not fully ready.”
He added: “It is normal in volleyball. The players sometimes carry injuries.” T&T will compete in Pool C alongside the likes of Azerbaijan, South Korea, Russia, Thailand and world number two, the United States. Ranked 34th in the world, T&T are the only Caribbean side in the tournament, which will see four pools of six teams contesting the preliminary round. Cruz said Trinidad would be looking to gather as much experience as possible from their participation in the tournament. “The only expectation we have there is that the players take the experience. That is the first time they will take part in the tournament. The challenge is very, very high,” he explained. “The teams (Azerbaijan and Thailand) are more level to us (but) they are teams that played in the World Championships (be-
Krystle Esdelle is carrying an injury into the World Championship.
fore). Only Trinidad will take part in one World Championships for the first time.” He continued: “You know here, we don’t have facilities for training. We cannot have expectations; just take the experience as the first time (competing).” The experienced side, which will be led by setter Renele Forde and includes the likes of Kelly-Anne Billingy, Channon Thompson and Darlene Ramdin, left for Japan earlier in the week. They open their campaign on September 29 against world number five Russia.
‘Universal Boss’ turns 39 - top cricketers send Gayle birthday wishes
CRICKETERS around the world have taken to social media to wish West Indies star Chris Gayle a happy birthday as the player turned 39 on Friday. The big-left hander, who made his Test debut in 2000, has gone on to be one of the game’s most successful batsmen after achieving major milestones in all forms. To list a few of his accolades, Gayle remains the only player to score a century in each of international cricket’s three formats. He is the only player in world cricket to hit a triple hundred in Tests, a double hundred in ODIs and a hundred in Twenty20 Internationals. Gayle is also the record runs-scorer in the T20 format, becoming the first player to score over 10 000 runs. Just a year shy of his 40th birthday the maverick left-hander continues to be one of the sport’s biggest characters both on and off the pitch. Gayle, who recently took part both the Indian Premier League and Caribbean Premier League (CPL), is also expected to feature for the West Indies in the ICC World Cup in England next year. On Friday, several players and former players, including Virat Kohli, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh and Darren Sammy took to social media platform to leave best wishes for the popular West Indian. (SportsMax)