A recent communiqué from PASO announced that the Cuban Olympic champion
and four-time World gold medalist in the men’s 120-kilo category, was one
of the five candidates —among eleven— who received more votes during the
16th Pan American Games held last October in Guadalajara, Mexico.

The message adds that the Commission will elect their president in the
coming months for a four-year mandate, until the end of the Pan American
Games of Toronto in 2015.

The other members of the Commission are Canadian gymnast Alexandra
Orlando, Haitian triple jumper Samyr Laine, Guatemalan table tennis player
Andrea Estrada, and Mexican taekwondo expert Guillermo Perez.

According to the communiqué, two more athletes of sports disciplines
included in the Pan Am meeting of Guadalajara —but not in the Olympic
program— will be elected by PASO’s Executive Committee to join the Commission.