By Zulhilmi Supaat
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 (Bernama) -- Two of the 19 events competed by Malaysian athletes during the Beijing Olympics that ended in August have yet to submit their performance reports to the National Sports Council (NSC).
NSC Director-General Datuk Zolkples Embong said NSC were still waiting for reports from women's pole vault and sailing while diving reports had to be translated from Mandarin.
"All the other reports that we received had been submitted to the Minister of Youth and Sports Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob yesterday. Initially we had wanted to submit all the reports but since reports of the two events have not come, we decided to submit those received," he told Bernama here today.
Zolkples said he was not sure if NSC would ever receive both reports as pole vault coach Gennady Potapovich's contract was terminated after the Olympics while sailor Dr Kevin Lim (no coach) had retired after the Olympics.
Ismail Sabri had earlier expressed disappointment over the failure of national associations and coaches to submit performance reports of their athletes who competed overseas, including the Beijing Olympics.
"For pole vault and sailing, I will leave it to their respective associations to take the initiative to submit the reports since both the involved people are not in the picture," said Zolkples who added that the dateline for submitting reports was Oct 30.
He hinted that associations may be barred from future competitions if they fail to submit their reports two weeks after the said competition.
Meanwhile, coaches of Bryan Nickson Lomas, Leong Mun Yee, Elizabeth Jimie and Pandelela Rinong from China, Huang Qiang and Li Lijie had submitted a report in Mandarin.
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Saya setuju. We are working on more coaches! “ @ManOlimpik : Malaysian junior athletes are just too ‘lembik’ http://t.co/7D7wmHWaNy ” — Khairy Jamaluddin (@Khairykj) June 10, 2014 The benchmark. Can our junior athletes train as hard as Malaysia's world No.1 badminton player, Lee Chong Wei? “IT IS okay lah. The training is not too bad lah. I will try lah … Wah, so hard lah today.” These are some of the common statements I hear from our juniors nowadays. It is not only in badminton. It is the easy-going, laid-back attitude and lack of competitiveness at grassroots level that we have problems producing quality players. I have travelled quite a bit. After ending my decade-long career with the national team, I went to play in the league in Europe. It’s different there. The European athletes know what they want. And they do it with real focus. Even the young ones possess admirable self-control and show a high level of commitment. During my time in the ...
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