IBF leadership defeated reform effort in 2023, but issues and bad feelings remain as international bowling flounders

On Oct. 6, 2023, Sheikh Talal Mohammad Al-Sabah of Kuwait was elected president of the International Bowling Federation 87-17 over reform group member Cathy Innes of Canada, as I detailed in this story. Innes, Executive Director of the Canadian Tenpin Federation, Vice President of the Pan American Zone and a member of the multi-nation working group that submitted proposals to reform the IBF, announced shortly before the IBF General Meeting that she was running for IBF president, as I d...