Seychelles National Olympic Committee - election of new executive committee-Outgoing president Gopal seeks fourth four-year term |18 March 2005

The meeting is scheduled for 8.30 a.m. at the Berjaya Mahe Beach Hotel.
Current Snoc president Antonio Gopal, who assumed the responsibility in 1992, is running for re-election and if he is elected into office, it will be his fourth four-year mandate.

Gopal, who served as an ordinary member on the first Snoc executive committee from 1979 to 1982 and as secretary general on the second from 1982 to 1991, is the only candidate for the post of president.
Like Gopal, Hugh Adam has no opponent as he seeks to be re-elected as vice-president.

Adam was first elected vice-president in 1997 and was re-elected into office in 2001.
It is certain that there will be a new secretary general after tomorrow’s AGM as Robert Auguste is not running for re-election.

A Snoc ordinary member since 1997, Auguste was first appointed secretary general in 1998 after Eric Savy resigned from the post and his appointment was confirmed in 1999. In 2001, he was elected as secretary general.

The candidates for the post of secretary general are Alain Alcindor and Jean Larue.
Alcindor has been a Snoc ordinary member since 1994 and he joined the local Olympic body as replacement for Tedd Sauzier who resigned that same year.

Larue was a Snoc ordinary member from 1997 to 2001.
Present treasurer Ivan Roberts is also running for re-election. Former swimmer Roberts replaced Ulrike Talma as treasurer in 1999 after the latter resigned from the post. In 2001, Roberts was voted into office.

Eight individuals are running for the five ordinary members posts. They are Michel Bau, Simon Lespoir, Selby Dora, Alain Alcindor, Paule Domingue, Joanna Houareau, Donald Celestine and Mervyn Austin.
Bau, Lespoir, Alcindor, Dora and Domingue are current Snoc ordinary members.

While Bau, Lespoir, Alcindor and Domingue were elected in 2001, Dora joined the executive committee in 2003 after Jocelyn Humphrey resigned.

Representatives of the Seychelles Olympian Association and the 22 associations and federations affiliated to Snoc are allowed to vote during the elections.

The 22 sports federations and associations are track and field athletics, boxing, basketball, badminton, volleyball, football, table-tennis, tennis, swimming, judo, karate, rugby, handball, hockey, petanque, canoeing, chess, cycling, squash, gymnastics, weightlifting and yachting.

Sports federations and associations nominate candidates who are then elected through secret ballot to serve on Snoc’s executive committee.

Candidates need not be members of any federation or association, but they have to be nominated by sporting federations and associations who are members of Snoc.

It is to note that a majority of the executive committee must be composed of members whose sports are represented in the summer Olympic Games.

G. G.