Claude Blackmore to chair Pan AM Technical Committee
Claude Blackmore
Claude Blackmore

GUYANESE official Claude Blackmore will chair the Jury of Appeal in the athletics division for this edition of the Pan American Games currently being contested in Canada. Blackmore, a former president of the Amateur Athletics of Guyana (AAG), will head the panel chosen from the Pan American region to assist in the administration of the discipline.
The other members of the jury will be Pauline Davis of the Bahamas, Roberto Gesta De Melo of Brazil, Alberto Juantoreno of Cuba and Abby Hoffman of Canada.
The team will form part of 22 International Technical Officials (ITOS) that will assist in the administration of the discipline of Athletics which has the largest number of participants with some 680 athletes.
According to reports out of Canada, some 1 100 athletes had made the qualifying standards which had posed a situation for the Organising committee.
Nonetheless the technical delegate for the games, David Katz of the United States of America, had managed to work with Pan American Sports Organisation (PASO) and set up the ITOS in order to ensure the smooth running of the games.
Athletics is currently under way.

 

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