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Sasaran realistik

MALAYSIA hanya menyasarkan kutipan antara 30 hingga 35 pingat emas pada Sukan SEA ke-25 di Laos berikutan tindakan tuan rumah menggugurkan banyak acara yang sebelum ini menyumbangkan emas kepada kontinjen negara.

Menteri Belia dan Sukan, Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek berkata, sasaran itu dianggap realistik kerana sebelum temasya tersebut bermula dari 9 hingga 18 Disember depan, Malaysia telah pun kehilangan 32 pingat emas daripada acara yang digugurkan.

"Tetapi bukan emas pada Sukan SEA yang dipentingkan. Ini kerana taraf Sukan SEA itu sendiri sejak kebelakangan ini seperti diturun taraf terutama bila tuan rumah lebih berminat mempertandingkan acara sukan tradisional di negara mereka," katanya semalam.

Sejak Sukan SEA 2001 di Kuala Lumpur, sasaran di Laos merupakan sasaran terendah kutipan pingat emas bagi Malaysia dalam temasya dwitahunan itu.

Untuk rekod, pada temasya 2001 di Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia mengutip 111 emas, Vietnam 2003 (43), Manila 2005 (61) dan Korat 2007 (68).

Laos akan mempertandingkan 384 pingat emas menerusi 25 acara sukan termasuk sukan tradisional seperti renang sirip, timang bulu ayam dan muay thai.

Sebaliknya, Laos menggugurkan acara yang sebelum ini banyak menyumbangkan emas kepada Malaysia seperti gimnastik, gimrama, tenpin boling, skuasy, terjun, ekuestrian, hoki lelaki dan wanita, boling padang, polo, pelayaran dan triatlon.

Sebagai rekod, kesemua acara yang digugurkan di Laos itu menyumbangkan 32 pingat emas kepada Malaysia pada Sukan SEA di Korat, Thailand.

Malaysia juga tidak akan mengambil bahagian dalam beberapa acara sukan tradisional yang menawarkan 65 pingat emas.

Tenis ringan menawarkan tujuh pingat emas, gusti (21), muay thai (14), renang sirip (16) dan sepak bulu ayam (7).

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