George Poor honoured with gold medal by FIE President
The President of the International Fencing Federation, Alisher Usmanov, rewarded the President of Italian Fencing Federation, George Poor, with a gold medal in his last meeting before his departure from Italy. The meeting was called on June 25, in
cooperation with Italian Fencing Federation.
Rome's Olympic Committee Executive Board of the International Fencing Federation (FIE) called a last meeting at The Council Room in Rome, before leaving Italy. The President of Fédération Internationale d'Escrime, Alisher Usmanov, called the members
of the Comex for addressing on several points.
At the beginning of the session, Alisher Usmanov honoured, George, with a gold medal, as a symbol of gratitude to the Italian fencing for the reception and the ' organisation of the meeting of the Comex. The President, Poor, said, “Thanks to the fencing
world turns to the Italian Federation. I like to "shoot" this award to the entire Federal Secretariat for the hard work for both the organizational meeting yesterday with the press conference of the World Catania2011 for the session of the Executive
Committee today."
The main purpose of the meeting was to discuss the 2012 London Olympic Games, the proposed new calendar of the 2011-2012 season in which the changed date of the Absolute European Championships is also included and reserve role of the athlete in team
competitions at the Olympic moot.
The Absolute European Championships will be held in Legnano June 15, 2012. It was also looked that how would be the best system in 2011 Catania World Fencing Championships that would be started on October 8, and would end on October 16 of the current
year. It was decided in the meeting that the technical director will be the person who will manage the competing bouts of rainbow and will insure each bout at the 2011 Catania World Championships.
Some changes to the administrative regulations were examined. The first one was to review the proposals received by the various working groups. This would include those resulting from the working group on security concerns in the Sabre discipline,
which was concluded in the meeting held in recent days in Rome.
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