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KOM tetap dengan keputusan

Kuala Lumpur: Kesatuan Olahraga Malaysia (KOM) tetap berpegang pada prinsip tidak menyenaraikan Noraseela Khalid dan Lee Hup Wei yang dicadangkan Majlis Sukan Negara (MSN) ke temasya Sukan SEA Myanmar hujung tahun ini.

Perkara itu ditegaskan Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Pemilihan KOM Datuk Wan Hisham Wan Salleh yang mengulas kenyataan Noraseela, atlet 400m lari berpagar negara yang memutuskan untuk tidak menyertai temasya dwitahunan itu.

Bagaimanapun KOM memaklumkan akan menambah dua nama baru ke Sukan SEA selepas bersetuju menghantar kuartet 4x100m wanita negara yang kini berada dalam kedudukan ranking ketiga terbaik Asia Tenggara.

Mereka adalah pasangan kembar dari Pulau Pinang Zaidatul Husna dan Zaidatul Husniah Zulkifli bergandingan bersama Komalam Sally dan Noor Amira Mohamad Nafiah yang sebelum ini sudah disenaraikan dalam acara 4x100m.

ā€œKami tetap berpegang pada prinsip sebelum ini berhubung penyenaraian atlet ke Sukan SEA. Saya harap perkara ini tidak dipanjangkan dan Noraseela serta Lee Hup Wei akan fokus untuk Sukan Asia dan Komanwel.

ā€œMereka mempunyai banyak masa untuk kembali cergas dan saya yakin mereka mampu membuktikan keupayaan menghadapi dua temasya lebih besar itu,ā€ katanya.
Beliau berharap keputusan itu tidak mengeruhkan hubungan antara MSN dan KOM.

Katanya, KOM tidak mempunyai masalah dan sentiasa mengamalkan dasar terbuka dengan menerima pandangan yang diberikan MSN sebelum ini.

ā€œBiarpun perjumpaan membabitkan KOM dan MSN bersama Menteri Belia dan Sukan Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar kelmarin dibatalkan, itu tidak bermakna kami mempunyai masalah. ā€œPresiden (Datuk Zainal Abidin Ahmad) sentiasa berhubung dengan MSN walaupun secara tidak rasmi,ā€ katanya. Wan Hisham berkata, perjumpaan bersama atlet dan jurulatih semalam memberi petanda positif mereka kini sudah bersedia menyahut cabaran dan beliau yakin beberapa kejutan akan berlaku di Myanmar.



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