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YONG LI antara yang tampil cemerlang di ACC baru-baru ini.


KEMEROSOTAN prestasi pelumba skuad lebuh raya negara kebelakangan ini seperti memberi satu cabaran baru buat jurulatihnya, Jamaluddin Omar menjelang temasya Sukan SEA Laos, Disember depan.

Pada Kejuaraan Berbasikal Asia ke-29 (ACC) di Kalimantan, Indonesia baru-baru ini, pelumba negara dilihat gagal menyerlah dan terus dibayangi kehebatan pelumba bertaraf profesional dari Kazakhstan.

Situasi ini dilihat mampu menjejaskan misi Persekutuan Kebangsaan Berbasikal Malaysia (PKBM) memenangi pingat emas acara lebuh raya pada temasya Sukan SEA di Laos hujung tahun ini.

Begitupun, Jamaluddin belum mahu panik, malah jurulatih itu yakin anak buahnya mampu memenangi emas di Laos setelah dia merancang persiapan latihan baru bersama ketua jurulatih, John Beasley hasil daripada post-mortem ACC 2009 baru-baru ini.

"Memang prestasi pelumba kita menunjukkan penurunan pada ACC 2009 baru-baru ini, mungkin kerana keletihan selepas menyertai temasya Mini Olimpik serta demam yang melanda pelumba lebuh raya ketika di sana," kata Jamaluddin kepada Kosmo! semalam.

"Tetapi apa yang saya boleh beri- tahu ialah saya dan Beasley (ketua jurulatih) sedar tentang kemeroso- tan ini dan telah merancang strategi latihan baru iaitu 70 peratus latihan ditumpukan kepada laluan berbukit manakala 30 peratus lagi kepada laluan pecut.

"Saya dapati kelemahan pelumba kita ialah ketika mendaki bukit. Pelumba kita tiada ketahanan mental dan fizikal pada laluan ini seperti pelumba Kazakhstan.

"Justeru, dengan latihan ini saya rasa kita mampu memperbaiki kelemahan itu dan tiada masalah untuk memenangi emas pada Sukan SEA Laos nanti," ujarnya.

Pada ACC 2009 di Kalimantan, pencapaian terbaik skuad lebuh raya negara hadir menerusi pelumba berpengalaman, Ng Yong Li yang menduduki tempat ke-16 daripada 32 pelumba pada perlumbaan ujian masa individu (ITT) sejauh 40.8 kilometer manakala Muhammad Nur Rauf Misbah pula tempat ke-30 dalam acara 160km lepas beramai-ramai.

Dalam pertandingan ITT wanita sejauh 20.4km, pelumba negara, Mariana Mohammad mempamerkan kayuhan cemerlang untuk menduduki tempat kelapan daripada 21 pelumba manakala Kimberly Yap pula menduduki tempat ke-15.

"Kami akan mengadakan satu perlumbaan terbuka untuk memilih pelumba yang bakal mewakili negara ke Sukan SEA nanti.

"Juara dan naib juara akan dipilih secara automatik manakala dua lagi pelumba akan ditentukan oleh saya," kata Jamaluddin.

Mengenai pencabar utama negara untuk memenangi pingat emas pada temasya itu nanti, beliau berkata:

"Saya rasa pencabar utama kita ialah Vietnam manakala Thailand dan Indonesia kurang menyerlah berbanding pelumba kita."

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