AIBA is very pleased to have received a record-breaking number of preliminary applications from 86 countries for the Youth World Championships Baku 2010. We also believe this number will increase to over 20 more countries once the deadline for the "Road to Baku" program has passed. AIBA has sent the invitations to all targeted national federations inviting them to send their boxers for this important AIBA development program whose registration will close on February 26. After this deadline, we will also announce the final preliminary registered countries by March 1.
"It is unfortunate to be missing some of the key boxing federations due to their negligence of sending the forms even though AIBA sent the original invitation letter well in advance and sent the reminder letter several times," commented Ho Kim, AIBA's Executive Director. "However, regardless of their participation in the past, it is our principle to close the registration at this time and AIBA will not accept any more registrations beyond the deadline," he said. " I hope this will alert some of the federations to pay much more attention in the future." |