This is necessary in order to fulfill a new statute requirement for each regional arm of the organisations to have at least one women on one of its three Executive Committee positions.

At present, it is four men are standing for the three roles.

Mexican Olympic Committee President Carlos Padilla and El Salvador Olympic Committee counterpart Eduardo Palomo Pacas are facing opposition from United States Olympic Committee chief executive Scott Blackmun and Haiti Olympic Committee secretary general Alain Jean-Pierre.

Padilla and Palomo Pacas are also standing for the vacant position of vice-president.

Blackmun, however, is not expected to attend this week's meeting following the death of USA Swimming executive director Chuck Wielgus.

It was decided at today's meeting of the current Executive Committee that the bloc would be given until the morning of Wednesday (April 26) to nominate a female candidate.

If this does not prove possible, insidethegames has been told that the General Assembly make take nominations from the floor.

The requirement to have female quotas was introduced amid statute changes approved last year in a bid to increase gender equality.

As well as Mexico, El Salvador, the US and Haiti, Group One members also consist of Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Dominican Republic.

Two female candidates are standing from the Group Two cluster of countries.

These are Puerto Rico's Sara Rosario Vélez, who is also standing for vice-president, and Grenada’s current member Veda Bruno-Victor.

Aruba's International Olympic Committee member Nicole Hoevertz is standing from Group Three countries.