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MENTERI Belia dan Sukan, Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek mahu lagu kebangsaan bergema sebanyak 10 kali pada temasya Sukan Komanwel 2010 di New Delhi, India bermula 3 hingga 14 Oktober depan.
Ia adalah kesinambungan daripada sasaran yang diletakkan kepada kontinjen Malaysia untuk mengutip sebanyak 10 pingat emas pada temasya yang bakal masuk edisi ke-19 itu.
Shabery berkata, perkara tersebut tidak mustahil mampu dilaku- kan oleh atlet negara sekiranya mereka mencontohi semangat juang atlet-atlet yang telah mengharumkan nama negara pada Sukan SEA 2009 di Laos, Vientiane.

"Pada temasya itu, sasaran awal negara adalah 30 hingga 35 pingat emas tetapi berkat semangat juang serta kesungguhan para atlet, kita mampu melebihi apa yang disasar- kan itu dengan mengutip 40 pingat emas.
"Atlet perlu menunjukkan yang mereka layak bergelar sebagai 'Harimau Malaya' yang mana tidak akan sesekali mudah tunduk dan berputus asa dalam usaha mengha- rumkan nama negara," katanya.
Beliau berkata demikian ketika berucap pada majlis penyerahan jalur gemilang kepada kontinjen negara ke Sukan Komanwel di IOI Resort, Palm Garden Hotel, Putra- jaya semalam.
Turut hadir pada majlis tersebut ialah Ketua Setiausaha Kementerian Belia dan Sukan (KBS), Datuk Mohid Mohamed; Presiden Majlis Olimpik Malaysia (MOM), Tunku Tan Sri Imran Tuanku Ja'afar; Ketua Pengarah Majlis Sukan Negara (MSN), Datuk Zolkples Embong dan Ketua Pengarah Institut Sukan Negara (ISN), Datuk Dr. Ramlan Abdul Aziz.

Sandaran utama bagi membawa pulang 10 pingat emas tersebut dile- takkan dalam acara lumba basikal, boling padang, badminton, skuasy, memanah dan juga akuatik bagi acara terjun.

SHABERY (tengah) bergambar bersama para atlet negara pada majlis penyerahan Jalur Gemilang untuk Sukan Komanwel 2010 di Putrajaya semalam.

Dalam pada itu, Shabery optimis yang atlet negara mampu membawa pulang lebih daripada 10 pingat emas yang disasarkan itu menerusi acara angkat berat dan juga basikal trek.

"Saya mendapat perkhabaran bahawa atlet angkat berat India kini sedang berdepan dengan masalah, jadi... saya merasakan peluang buat negara untuk mengutip pingat emas adalah lebih cerah.
"Manakala bagi basikal trek pelu- ang buat Mohd. Azizulhasi (Awang) untuk meraih dua pingat emas bagi kategori pecut dan keirin lebih terbuka selepas pelumba Britain, Chris Hoy difahamkan tidak akan menyertai temasya itu nanti," ujar Shabery.

Mengulas mengenai ancaman daripada pihak militan di India yang mahu melakukan serangan ketika berlangsungnya Sukan Komanwel nanti, Shabery menjelaskan yang pihaknya sentiasa memantau perkembangan terbaru berhubung perkara tersebut.

"Sehingga kini, saya yakin kerajaan India memandang serius berhubung ancaman tersebut dengan memberi perhatian berlipat kali ganda dan percaya mereka mampu menanganinya dengan baik.
"Untuk itu, para atlet, pegawai- pegawai dan pihak keluaga atlet tidak perlu bimbang dengan perkara tersebut," jelas Shabery.

Pada temasya kali ini, kontinjen Malaysia akan menghantar seramai 95 orang terdiri daripada para pegawai dan 201 atlet ke New Delhi, India nanti.


Oleh HELMI TALKAH
helmi.talkah@kosmo.com.my

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