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KUALA LUMPUR - Tiada lagi alasan untuk atlet memanah negara tidak memberikan komitmen 100 peratus menjalani latihan memandangkan tahun 2010 adalah musim mencari kejuaraan.


Jurulatih memanah negara, Lee Jae Hyung berkata, jadual latihan untuk tahun depan telah sedia ada memandangkan lapan kejuaraan akan jadi taruhan skuad pemanah.
Jelasnya, atlet diminta bekerja keras bagi membantu negara memenangi pingat bagi setiap acara yang disertai.
"Sebanyak lapan kejuaraan akan berlangsung dan ia akan bermula pada Februari ini iaitu Grand Prix Asia yang akan menemui mereka di Kuala Lumpur.
"Tahun hadapan juga atlet akan lebih bertungkus lumus dan ada antara atlet seperti Wan Khalmizam Wan Abdul Aziz telah membuat penangguhan pembelajarannya bagi memberi tumpuan sepenuhnya untuk 2010," katanya ketika dihubungi Utusan Malaysia di sini, semalam.
Bagaimanapun, Jae Hyung menyatakan kesukaran baginya untuk mengumpulkan atlet-atlet tersebut dalam satu masa latihan.
"Namun begitu, latihan telah dijalankan, cuma latihan secara berkumpulan sukar dijalankan kerana atlet-atlet masih mempunyai komitmen lain. Saya berharap, persediaan akan berjalan lancar seperti yang diinginkan," ujarnya.
Tambahnya lagi, senarai atlet bagi mengisi kejuaraan yang bakal berlangsung tahun hadapan itu masih belum diputuskan lagi tetapi persediaan ke arah itu sedang rancak dilakukan bagi memastikan skuad memanah negara lebih cemerlang berbanding Sukan SEA lalu.
Meskipun Sukan SEA di Laos, baru-baru ini atlet memanah menyumbang enam pingat (satu emas, tiga perak dan dua gangsa) sasaran yang diletak sebenarnya dilihat tidak tercapai.
Sasaran dua emas gagal diraih selepas skuad negara gagal mempertahankan kejuaraan recurve berpasukan lelaki yang dirampas pemanah Thailand.
Sandaran berpasukan recurve lelaki negara itu, menerusi Cheng Chu Sian dan dua pemanah pelapis elit, Arif Farhan Ibrahim Putra dan Fadzli Hisham, hanya berpuas hati dengan pingat perak.
Ditambah lagi, pasukan negara wanita yang terdiri daripada Fatin Nurfatehah Mat Salleh, Nurhidayah Abdul Latip dan Saritha Cham Nong turut pulang dengan perak apabila tumbang kepada Myanmar.
Bagaimanapun, Chu Sian menyelamatkan keadaan apabila meraih emas dalam acara recurve individu lelaki. UTUSAN

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