Wu Ching-kuo
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Dr. Wu Ching-kuo is the Taiwanese president of the AIBA.
When serving as an AIBA committee chairman, he proposed reforms such as increased marketing, new television contracts and the installation of scoreboards to allow fans to see how judges score fights in real time.
In November 2006 he won a vote 83 to 79 to replace 84-year old Anwar Chowdhry
of Pakistan to serve as AIBA's head for the next four years. He had the support of the US, delegation member Charles Butler said and claims to have had the support of China, with whom he has worked on the 2008 Olympic Games, too.
He is also Taiwan's representative on the International Olympic Committee
(IOC). He will be serving as part of the evaluation commission for the 2016 Summer Olympics
.
After his election he let PriceWaterhouseCoopers check the AIBA finances.
Turkish General Secretary Caner Doganeli was soon suspended in February 2007 and the ethics commission headed by François Carrard is now discussing financial irregularities charges against Doganeli and Chowdry.
He hasn't yet fired the very controversial Uzbek AIBA-Vice President Gafur Rachimov who had been banned from entering Australia in 2000 after the Sydney Morning Herald broke the news that he's a drug tsar, a mafia boss and controls crime in Central Asia http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/stories/s176178.htm.
The head of Russian amateur boxing and the EABA Eduard Khusainov, an outspoken Wu critic who complained publicly that Wu still keeps Chowdry's allies in office, was given the boot, though, while Ho Kim, Wu's election manager runs a high office. The world championships 2007 were moved from Moscow to Chicago.
Norwegian IOC member Gerhard Heiberg is running a reform commission.
The beginning of reforms have made the IOC release 450.000 of the 9.15 mio.$ that were frozen when the AIBA couldn't be held accountable for its actions before.
Career
Wu Ching-kuo wasn't a boxer but a basketball player in his youth. Later he worked as an architect.When serving as an AIBA committee chairman, he proposed reforms such as increased marketing, new television contracts and the installation of scoreboards to allow fans to see how judges score fights in real time.
In November 2006 he won a vote 83 to 79 to replace 84-year old Anwar Chowdhry
Anwar Chowdhry
Anwar Chowdhry was a Pakistani sports official who was president of the International Boxing Association from 1986 to 2010. He died in 2010 at the age of 86 from a heart attack.-References:...
of Pakistan to serve as AIBA's head for the next four years. He had the support of the US, delegation member Charles Butler said and claims to have had the support of China, with whom he has worked on the 2008 Olympic Games, too.
He is also Taiwan's representative on the International Olympic Committee
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee is an international corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president...
(IOC). He will be serving as part of the evaluation commission for the 2016 Summer Olympics
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, are a major international multi-sport event to be celebrated in the tradition of the Olympic Games, as governed by the International Olympic Committee...
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After his election he let PriceWaterhouseCoopers check the AIBA finances.
Turkish General Secretary Caner Doganeli was soon suspended in February 2007 and the ethics commission headed by François Carrard is now discussing financial irregularities charges against Doganeli and Chowdry.
He hasn't yet fired the very controversial Uzbek AIBA-Vice President Gafur Rachimov who had been banned from entering Australia in 2000 after the Sydney Morning Herald broke the news that he's a drug tsar, a mafia boss and controls crime in Central Asia http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/stories/s176178.htm.
The head of Russian amateur boxing and the EABA Eduard Khusainov, an outspoken Wu critic who complained publicly that Wu still keeps Chowdry's allies in office, was given the boot, though, while Ho Kim, Wu's election manager runs a high office. The world championships 2007 were moved from Moscow to Chicago.
Norwegian IOC member Gerhard Heiberg is running a reform commission.
The beginning of reforms have made the IOC release 450.000 of the 9.15 mio.$ that were frozen when the AIBA couldn't be held accountable for its actions before.