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'Kegagalan bukan satu kebimbangan'


AZIZULHASNI tersingkir pada peringkat ketiga (repechage) dalam acara pecut individu diCopanhagen, Denmark kelmarin.

"MEMPERTAHANKAN kejuaraan adalah lebih sukar daripada mengecapinya."

Demikian komen Presiden Persatuan Kebangsaan Berbasikal Malaysia (PKBM), Abu Samah Wahab ketika mengulas mengenai prestasi jaguh negara, Mohd. Azizulhasni Awang pada Kejohanan Lumba Basikal Trek Dunia di Copanhagen, Denmark yang berakhir semalam.

Azizulhasni, 22, turun pada penyertaan keduanya di Kejohanan Dunia dengan misi memburu dua emas dalam acara kegemarannya iaitu Keirin dan 200 meter pecut.

Setelah menghadiahkan pingat perak dalam acara Keirin Jumaat lepas, pelumba kelahiran Dungun, Terengganu ini gagal mengekalkan kayuhan cemerlangnya apabila tersingkir di peringkat ketiga (repechage) acara pecut kelmarin.

Kekalahan itu menyaksikan pelumba yang digelar The Pocketrocketman ini gagal beraksi pada final acara pecut semalam, sekali gus meleburkan hasratnya untuk sekurang-kurangnya mempertahankan pingat perak yang dimenangi di Pruszkow, Poland pada edisi tahun lepas.


"Semua orang terutamanya rakyat Malaysia mahu melihat dia (Azizulhasni) memenangi pingat emas dalam acara pecut tetapi apakan daya, dia mungkin berasa tertekan," kata Abu Samah kepada Kosmo! semalam.
"Selain daripada jaguh Britain, Chris Hoy dan juara bertahan, Gregory Bauge, saya jamin semua pencabar lain juga akan memberi tumpuan kepadanya.

"Namun, nasib jelas tidak memihak kepada Azizulhasni kali ini. Saya bersimpati terhadapnya tetapi saya mahu memberitahu bahawa cabaran untuk mengekalkan kejuaraan adalah jauh lebih sukar daripada cabaran untuk memenangi sesuatu kejuaraan itu," katanya lagi.

Begitupun, Abu Samah tetap berbangga dengan kejayaan jaguh pecut negara ini yang menghadiahkan kilauan perak dalam acara Keirin meskipun tewas kepada Hoy yang juga pemenang pingat emas Sukan Olimpik 2008.

"Situasi ini bukan sesuatu yang membimbangkan kerana seperti yang saya katakan sebelum ini bahawa prestasi Azizulhasni bukan pada tahap terbaik," kata Abu Samah.

"Saya harap dia mampu meningkatkan prestasinya dalam masa beberapa bulan ini sebelum turun dalam misi utama iaitu memenangi emas pada Sukan Asia di Guangzhou, China, November depan."

Sementara itu, Abu Samah turut sedar tentang kebangkitan barisan pelumba China terutamanya dalam acara pecut.

"Saya rasa kita kena lebih berhati-hati dengan cabaran daripada pelumba China kerana mereka juga menunjukkan peningkatan.

"Pelumbanya, Lei Zhang hampir-hampir mengejutkan juara bertahan, Bauge pada pusingan kedua, jadi ini mungkin petanda bahawa China usah dipandang mudah pada Sukan Asia 2010 nanti," akui Abu Samah.

Oleh SHAHRIL NIZAM ABDULLAH
shahril@kosmo.com.my

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