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YOG 2010: Kontinjen negara impi satu pingat


KENG LIAT (tiga dari kiri) akan mengetuai kontinjen negara ke temasya YOG 2010 di Singapura.


KONTINJEN negara tidak mahu terlalu yakin pada penampilan sulung di Sukan Olimpik Remaja (YOG) 2010.
Meskipun satu pingat menjadi impian, tetapi keutamaan mereka adalah kepada penyertaan serta pendedahan atlet muda yang satu hari kelak menjadi tonggak kekuatan sukan negara.
Satu pingat yang mereka impikan itu diramal bakal hadir daripada acara terjun, badminton atau pelayaran.

Sukan Olimpik Remaja 2010 dijadualkan berlangsung pada 14 hingga 26 Ogos di Singapura dan ia julung-julung kali diadakan.
Ketua kontinjen negara, Alex Lim Keng Liat berkata, impian meraih satu pingat itu adalah sasaran yang realistik kerana mereka tidak dapat menjangkakan kekuatan pasukan lain.
Katanya, ini merupakan kali pertama temasya tersebut dianjurkan.

"Kita cuma mahu mereka (atlet) membuat yang terbaik dan harap mereka boleh bawa pulang satu pingat tidak kira warna," katanya pada sidang media mengenai temasya itu di Kompleks Sukan Bukit Jalil semalam.
Kontinjen negara terdiri daripada 22 orang yang merangkumi 13 atlet serta lapan jurulatih dan mereka akan bertolak ke Singapura pada 10 Ogos.

Antara atlet yang terlibat ialah Pandalela Rinong bagi acara terjun, Fatin Atikah Osman (angkat berat), Loh Wei Sheng dan Sonia Cheah (badminton), Mohd. Amirul Shafiq Md. Jais dan Khairuneeta Mohd. Afendy (pelayaran). Sementara itu, Pengarah Bahagian Atlet, Majlis Sukan Negara (MSN), Ahmad Shapawi Ismail berkata, kejohanan itu lebih mengutamakan penyertaan atlet berbanding pungutan pingat, di samping memberi fokus pada aspek budaya dan pendidikan.

"Malah tiada kedudukan pingat akan ditunjukkan sepanjang kejohanan. Atlet juga akan dibawa mengikuti program seni dan budaya, ekplorasi dan aktiviti komuniti," katanya.

Beliau berkata, meskipun temasya itu diadakan pada bulan Ramadan, atlet beragama Islam dijangka tidak akan menghadapi masalah untuk menunjukkan prestasi terbaik, memandangkan mereka sudah biasa berlatih dalam bulan puasa.

Sebanyak 26 acara sukan dipertandingkan dan Malaysia beraksi dalam enam sukan iaitu olahraga, akuatik, badminton, pelayaran, angkat berat dan gimrama.



Oleh SAHLIZAH MOHAMED
sahlizah@kosmo.com.my

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