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‘Mereka beri terbaik’


Kuala Lumpur: Kehilangan pingat perak pasangan penerjun negara, Pandelela Rinong-Leong Mun Yee bukan berpunca daripada kegagalan mengawal emosi atau tekanan.
Ketua Pengarah Majlis Sukan Negara (MSN), Datuk Seri Zolkples Embong berkata, senario itu boleh terjadi kepada mana-mana penerjun kerana semua aspek perlu diambil kira apabila beraksi di peringkat tertinggi.

“Memang sayang, kita hanya dipisahkan 0.27 mata untuk meraih perak. Pasangan kita sebenarnya begitu hampir melakukannya hinggalah terjunan terakhir. Tapi aksi dipamer Pandelela dan Mun Yee amat membanggakan.
“Acara terjun tidak hanya membabitkan mental kerana bermula daripada sebelum melakukan terjunan hingga memasuki air, setiap aspek perlu diambil kira. Dua penerjun kita itu, terutama Mun Yee bukan atlet baru, mereka tahu apa yang perlu dilakukan. Saya tidak fikir ia ada kaitan dengan kegagalan mengawal emosi atau menangani tekanan,” katanya.

Pandelela-Mun Yee keting galan kepada pasangan Kanada, Meaghan Benfeito-Roseline Fillion yang meraih perak manakala emas acara 10 meter terjun seirama itu milik penerjun China, Chen Ruolin-Liu Huixia.

Pencapaian di Barcelona itu gangsa kedua buat Pandelela-Mun Yee selepas turut menduduki tempat ketiga di kejohanan sama pada 2009 di Rome. Di Shanghai, China dua tahun lalu, mereka gagal membawa pulang sebarang pingat apabila sekadar menduduki tempat keenam.
Gangsa itu setidak-tidaknya mengubat kekecewaan di Sukan Olimpik London tahun lalu apabila pasangan itu sekadar menduduki tempat keenam acara sama.

Mengulas kemampuan Pandelela menukar warna gangsa apabila turun dalam acara akhir 10m platform individu hari ini, Zolkples berharap penerjun yang turut memenangi gangsa di London 2012 itu akan terus fokus.

“Bukan mudah buat Pandelela. Dia perlu kekal fokus bagi membuktikan dirinya masih antara yang terbaik dalam acara itu. Jika boleh, perbaiki pencapaian dilakukan di London.” Di separuh akhir semalam, Pandelela mempamerkan terjunan meyakinkan apabila mengumpul 314.15 mata untuk berada di kedudukan kelapan terbaik seterusnya layak beraksi di peringkat akhir, bersaing bersama 11 penerjun lain.



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