Sunday, January 30, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Japan win fourth Asian Cup title
BLUE SAMURAI on Saturday won an unprecedented fourth Asian Cup title after beating Australia 1-0 after extra time in the final played in the Khalifa Stadium.
BANZAIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BEST FINAL TODAY
Enjoy watched KIM & LI NA fighting in the woman final for Australian Open 2011 today!!!
Kim deserved to win the match 3-6,6-3 and 6-3. But CONGRATULATION to LI NA cause she played very well and make ASIAN PROUD!!!...
"I finally feel like you guys can call me Aussie Kim, because I've won the title" -Kim Clijsters
Friday, January 28, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
LI NA REACHES AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2011 FINAL
NOT THE RIGHT TIME FOR CAROLINE..
AND SHE WILL FACE KIM CLIJSTERS FOR THE CHAMPION!!!
GOOD FOR ASIA...
AND SHE WILL FACE KIM CLIJSTERS FOR THE CHAMPION!!!
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
JUSTINE HENIN ANNOUNCED RETIREMENT
MASIH ADA PELUANG?
KITA KETANDUSAN ATLIT OLAHRAGA...
Bagaimana cara untuk mengisi atlit yang berkaliber dan berpotensi seperti Petra Nabila yang sebelum ini menggegar kejohanan Sukma satu ketika dahulu?
Bagaimana cara untuk mengisi atlit yang berkaliber dan berpotensi seperti Petra Nabila yang sebelum ini menggegar kejohanan Sukma satu ketika dahulu?
Wajah yang pasti dirindui oleh peminat olahraga Malaysia
Monday, January 24, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
China Looks To Row Away With Most Gold Medals
by Louisa Lim
China's dearest Olympic goal is to top the gold medals table.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the country finished second only to the United States, with four fewer gold medals than America's 36.
To win the race for gold this summer, Beijing has been working to improve its chances in areas where the gold medals are plentiful — focusing especially on sports that have not been China's traditional strong suits.
China has never won a gold medal for rowing, for example, but they are hoping to change that this summer.
A Focus On The Obscure
To that end, China has launched the mysterious sounding "Project 119", named for the 119 gold medals it was targeting. These are in sports which have not been popular in China, like rowing, swimming and track and field.
This project was launched in 2001, and this year, ambitions are even bigger since the games are on home turf, and even more medals — 122 - are available in those events.
Under Project 119, China has spent millions of dollars on new facilities, bringing in foreign coaches and scouring the country in search of new talent.
One of the country's rising stars is Zhang Liang, a 22-year-old rower who towers at 6 feet 4 inches tall.
"I love rowing, and I train to win glory for myself," says Zhang, who took up the sport six years ago.
Today, Zhang is national single sculls champion, the event which involves a single person rowing.
With the hopes of his nation pinned on him, Zhang pursues a rigorous training schedule. He wakes up at 5 each morning to train, returns to his regimen after breakfast, and caps off his day with four hours of afternoon training.
He is one of approximately 2,000 professional full-time rowers on the government payroll.
'We Want To Compete And Fight'
National team coach Zhou Qinian explains that Beijing is focusing on rowing because 14 gold medals will be awarded in that sport this summer.
"Rowing is a major Olympic sport with many gold medals," says Zhou. "The more events and gold medals there are, the more we want to compete and fight."
Zhou has been China's chief rowing coach for three decades. Back in 1978, the team was so badly equipped that it had to rent boats from overseas. For Zhou, improving the team is more than a personal quest.
"We sports people want to win glory in the programs requiring great physical strength," he says. "For example, no one thought hurdler Liu Xiang could win that gold medal. That was a reassertion of Chinese people's physical strength. And the same is true for rowing."
At the recent World Cup rowing regatta, China came away with five out of 14 gold medals available — more than any other country — showing that it is now a force to be reckoned with internationally.
Some of China's rowers fear that without a gold at this summer's Olympics, their funding might be diverted to more successful sports. But the manager of China's rowing team, Cao Jingwei, says he is confident Beijing will continue with its rowing program, if nothing else, because of its 48-member team.
"They can't abandon this project altogether, because 48 people is a huge team," says Cao. "The U.S. always has a huge delegation. So China wants more and more athletes, regardless of whether they win gold medals, to march behind the Chinese flag at the Olympics."
Creating A Buzz
In addition to the resources the government has poured into rowing, it has also set about trying to generate excitement for the sport among the public.
"All your effort and pain will be for one end: the glory of the motherland," was the lure for contestants in an unusual reality television show designed to raise the profile of rowing. The prize: to take part in the Olympic games, as the coxswain or "cox" for the eight-person rowing team. The cox is the crew member who doesn't actually row, but is in charge of navigating, motivating the rowers and coordinating their strokes.
"Only the cox of the eight-person sculls could be your 'Average Joe,' someone without great athletic ability," says Cao, the team manager. "We wanted to do this because the gap between Olympic stars and ordinary people is becoming bigger and bigger."
For rower Zhang, that gap is painfully obvious. He lives with his team members at the training site year-round. Coach Zhou teases him about how this is hampering his search for a girlfriend. And Zhang shyly admits that it is difficult to relate to outsiders, "They talk about different things, and their lives are too different," he explains. He is idolized by his friends and family, and now he must try to live up to their hopes.
"Sometimes it is too hard on my parents," says Zhang. "But as Chinese, they'll feel better when they see their child participating in the Olympics on home soil."
China's dearest Olympic goal is to top the gold medals table.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the country finished second only to the United States, with four fewer gold medals than America's 36.
To win the race for gold this summer, Beijing has been working to improve its chances in areas where the gold medals are plentiful — focusing especially on sports that have not been China's traditional strong suits.
China has never won a gold medal for rowing, for example, but they are hoping to change that this summer.
A Focus On The Obscure
To that end, China has launched the mysterious sounding "Project 119", named for the 119 gold medals it was targeting. These are in sports which have not been popular in China, like rowing, swimming and track and field.
This project was launched in 2001, and this year, ambitions are even bigger since the games are on home turf, and even more medals — 122 - are available in those events.
Under Project 119, China has spent millions of dollars on new facilities, bringing in foreign coaches and scouring the country in search of new talent.
One of the country's rising stars is Zhang Liang, a 22-year-old rower who towers at 6 feet 4 inches tall.
"I love rowing, and I train to win glory for myself," says Zhang, who took up the sport six years ago.
Today, Zhang is national single sculls champion, the event which involves a single person rowing.
With the hopes of his nation pinned on him, Zhang pursues a rigorous training schedule. He wakes up at 5 each morning to train, returns to his regimen after breakfast, and caps off his day with four hours of afternoon training.
He is one of approximately 2,000 professional full-time rowers on the government payroll.
'We Want To Compete And Fight'
National team coach Zhou Qinian explains that Beijing is focusing on rowing because 14 gold medals will be awarded in that sport this summer.
"Rowing is a major Olympic sport with many gold medals," says Zhou. "The more events and gold medals there are, the more we want to compete and fight."
Zhou has been China's chief rowing coach for three decades. Back in 1978, the team was so badly equipped that it had to rent boats from overseas. For Zhou, improving the team is more than a personal quest.
"We sports people want to win glory in the programs requiring great physical strength," he says. "For example, no one thought hurdler Liu Xiang could win that gold medal. That was a reassertion of Chinese people's physical strength. And the same is true for rowing."
At the recent World Cup rowing regatta, China came away with five out of 14 gold medals available — more than any other country — showing that it is now a force to be reckoned with internationally.
Some of China's rowers fear that without a gold at this summer's Olympics, their funding might be diverted to more successful sports. But the manager of China's rowing team, Cao Jingwei, says he is confident Beijing will continue with its rowing program, if nothing else, because of its 48-member team.
"They can't abandon this project altogether, because 48 people is a huge team," says Cao. "The U.S. always has a huge delegation. So China wants more and more athletes, regardless of whether they win gold medals, to march behind the Chinese flag at the Olympics."
Creating A Buzz
In addition to the resources the government has poured into rowing, it has also set about trying to generate excitement for the sport among the public.
"All your effort and pain will be for one end: the glory of the motherland," was the lure for contestants in an unusual reality television show designed to raise the profile of rowing. The prize: to take part in the Olympic games, as the coxswain or "cox" for the eight-person rowing team. The cox is the crew member who doesn't actually row, but is in charge of navigating, motivating the rowers and coordinating their strokes.
"Only the cox of the eight-person sculls could be your 'Average Joe,' someone without great athletic ability," says Cao, the team manager. "We wanted to do this because the gap between Olympic stars and ordinary people is becoming bigger and bigger."
For rower Zhang, that gap is painfully obvious. He lives with his team members at the training site year-round. Coach Zhou teases him about how this is hampering his search for a girlfriend. And Zhang shyly admits that it is difficult to relate to outsiders, "They talk about different things, and their lives are too different," he explains. He is idolized by his friends and family, and now he must try to live up to their hopes.
"Sometimes it is too hard on my parents," says Zhang. "But as Chinese, they'll feel better when they see their child participating in the Olympics on home soil."
Chinese rower Zhang Liang (right) stands with the national rowing team coach Zhou Qinian.
After three decades, Beijing's rowers are under pressure as never before to win that breakthrough Olympic gold. Silver is simply not enough. And for athletes like Zhang, winning gold is not just a personal mission, it is also an assertion of China's strength.
Boarding Schools Generate China's Sport Stars
by Louisa Lim
In order to wage sporting battle, China has long poured an inordinate amount of money into elite athletes and the schools that train them starting at the age of 4.
While market forces and modernization have begun to revolutionize the nation, its sports infrastructure remains a vestige of another era.
On example is the Li Xiaoshuang Gymnastics School in Xiantao, in the province of Hubei.
Weeding Out The Weak
At the gym, a girls calls out "seven minutes," as sweat drips down her brow and onto a watch between her hands on the floor. She is the timekeeper, and she is counting down a 10-minute handstand for a group of young gymnasts. The children are red-faced with exertion, some grunting with effort, as their coach looks on.
These tiny athletes know they are part of a glorious tradition. Three Olympic gold medalists got their start doing handstands at this very school.
Around 100 youngsters, between 4 and 9 years old, train at Li Xiaoshuang. Most of them board at the school to take advantage of its nine gymnastic coaches.
The staff here works for the Chinese Government's General Administration of Sports. Headmaster Tian Hua says the school is an integral part of the country's sports system.
"Our Chinese sports system is like a pyramid. We're the base, the fattest part of the pyramid. The middle of the pyramid is the professional provincial teams, and the national team is the apex," says Tian. "Our main role is to choose future athletes."
That process can be brutal, even at this stage. China's sports schools are designed to produce gold medalists, regardless of the human cost. "Competitive sport is war without gunfire." That's how Fan Hong, a Chinese national swimmer and later academic, described Beijing's attitude toward gold medals.
"I've trained until I cried many times," one small boy says as he takes time out from gym practice. "Sometimes we have to stand on our hands for half an hour."
"It's only hard at first," another boy chips in breezily. "Then you get used to it."
Coach Zheng Hunsheng denies that the children are forced to do half-hour handstands. "Their young bones are too soft to withstand it," he says. "We use scientific training methods now."
Pressured And Pampered
Gymnastics — in any country — is a tough and painful sport. And Beijing's sports machine has generally had bad press. Yet some argue that Chinese athletes are in some ways more fortunate than their Western counterparts, particularly as they are paid a government salary.
"Financially, their life is probably a bit easier than most athletes, at least in the U.S.," argues Susan Brownell, a sports anthropologist from the University of Missouri, who has been working at Beijing Sports University.
"Most Olympic athletes in the U.S. are still supporting themselves by college scholarships or other jobs," says Brownell. "The result in China is that athletes can concentrate fully on their training."
Brownell trained as a college athlete both in the United States and China. She says for athletes, life in China is in some ways easier than it is in the U.S.
"They seemed to me a little bit more pampered," she says. "You did have people who cared about your physical and psychological well-being taking care of you. If I needed a massage, I could get a massage. In comparison, in the U.S. a lot was left up to me."
$7 Million Per Gold Medal
Even though it is remote, the Li Xiaoshuang gymnastics school is a beneficiary of state largesse. It has received $14 million in funding over the past decade.
Indeed, China gears its sports system toward developing elite athletes — investing in sport for the masses takes a distant second place. The director of the Institute of Physical Science under the General Administration of Sports estimates that each Olympic gold medal has cost Beijing around $7 million.
With its top-down centralized control, China's sports system is the last bastion of the socialist planned economy.
Any large-scale reform has been delayed by the need to win medals at this year's Olympics, says Xiong Xiaozheng, from the Centre for Olympics Studies at Beijing Sports University.
"Winning glory at the Olympics is costly," says Xiong.
Some even argue that the imperative to win medals at Beijing's Olympics has ended up strengthening the old sports system favoring elite athletes.
Glory For The Nation
Back at the school, as the pint-size gymnasts do exercises on the playground, Li Shukui watches anxiously. He is visiting his 6-year-old twin girls. They have spoken once a week over the phone since he enrolled them in this boarding school. It is hard to be apart so much, he admits, but worth it to fulfill his dream.
"When I see Chinese athletes winning gold medals overseas, I'm so moved I can hardly describe it," Li says. "I'd like my daughters to win a gold medal to win glory for the country."
The allure of glory and gold tempts hundreds of thousands of parents to pressure their precious only children into lives of sporting servitude.
"If my children don't get picked to carry on in gymnastics," Li says, "I'll move them to diving."
These words are a tacit admission that on the battlefield that is competitive sport, these children are little more than cannon fodder.
In order to wage sporting battle, China has long poured an inordinate amount of money into elite athletes and the schools that train them starting at the age of 4.
While market forces and modernization have begun to revolutionize the nation, its sports infrastructure remains a vestige of another era.
On example is the Li Xiaoshuang Gymnastics School in Xiantao, in the province of Hubei.
Weeding Out The Weak
At the gym, a girls calls out "seven minutes," as sweat drips down her brow and onto a watch between her hands on the floor. She is the timekeeper, and she is counting down a 10-minute handstand for a group of young gymnasts. The children are red-faced with exertion, some grunting with effort, as their coach looks on.
These tiny athletes know they are part of a glorious tradition. Three Olympic gold medalists got their start doing handstands at this very school.
Around 100 youngsters, between 4 and 9 years old, train at Li Xiaoshuang. Most of them board at the school to take advantage of its nine gymnastic coaches.
The staff here works for the Chinese Government's General Administration of Sports. Headmaster Tian Hua says the school is an integral part of the country's sports system.
"Our Chinese sports system is like a pyramid. We're the base, the fattest part of the pyramid. The middle of the pyramid is the professional provincial teams, and the national team is the apex," says Tian. "Our main role is to choose future athletes."
That process can be brutal, even at this stage. China's sports schools are designed to produce gold medalists, regardless of the human cost. "Competitive sport is war without gunfire." That's how Fan Hong, a Chinese national swimmer and later academic, described Beijing's attitude toward gold medals.
"I've trained until I cried many times," one small boy says as he takes time out from gym practice. "Sometimes we have to stand on our hands for half an hour."
"It's only hard at first," another boy chips in breezily. "Then you get used to it."
Coach Zheng Hunsheng denies that the children are forced to do half-hour handstands. "Their young bones are too soft to withstand it," he says. "We use scientific training methods now."
Pressured And Pampered
Gymnastics — in any country — is a tough and painful sport. And Beijing's sports machine has generally had bad press. Yet some argue that Chinese athletes are in some ways more fortunate than their Western counterparts, particularly as they are paid a government salary.
"Financially, their life is probably a bit easier than most athletes, at least in the U.S.," argues Susan Brownell, a sports anthropologist from the University of Missouri, who has been working at Beijing Sports University.
"Most Olympic athletes in the U.S. are still supporting themselves by college scholarships or other jobs," says Brownell. "The result in China is that athletes can concentrate fully on their training."
Brownell trained as a college athlete both in the United States and China. She says for athletes, life in China is in some ways easier than it is in the U.S.
"They seemed to me a little bit more pampered," she says. "You did have people who cared about your physical and psychological well-being taking care of you. If I needed a massage, I could get a massage. In comparison, in the U.S. a lot was left up to me."
$7 Million Per Gold Medal
Even though it is remote, the Li Xiaoshuang gymnastics school is a beneficiary of state largesse. It has received $14 million in funding over the past decade.
Indeed, China gears its sports system toward developing elite athletes — investing in sport for the masses takes a distant second place. The director of the Institute of Physical Science under the General Administration of Sports estimates that each Olympic gold medal has cost Beijing around $7 million.
With its top-down centralized control, China's sports system is the last bastion of the socialist planned economy.
Any large-scale reform has been delayed by the need to win medals at this year's Olympics, says Xiong Xiaozheng, from the Centre for Olympics Studies at Beijing Sports University.
"Winning glory at the Olympics is costly," says Xiong.
Some even argue that the imperative to win medals at Beijing's Olympics has ended up strengthening the old sports system favoring elite athletes.
Glory For The Nation
Back at the school, as the pint-size gymnasts do exercises on the playground, Li Shukui watches anxiously. He is visiting his 6-year-old twin girls. They have spoken once a week over the phone since he enrolled them in this boarding school. It is hard to be apart so much, he admits, but worth it to fulfill his dream.
"When I see Chinese athletes winning gold medals overseas, I'm so moved I can hardly describe it," Li says. "I'd like my daughters to win a gold medal to win glory for the country."
The allure of glory and gold tempts hundreds of thousands of parents to pressure their precious only children into lives of sporting servitude.
"If my children don't get picked to carry on in gymnastics," Li says, "I'll move them to diving."
These words are a tacit admission that on the battlefield that is competitive sport, these children are little more than cannon fodder.
Friday, January 21, 2011
AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2011
Friday, 21 January, 2011
By Matt Cronin
By Matt Cronin
Svetlana Kuznetsova had lost to seven-time Grand Slam champion Justine Henin 16 times prior to Thursday, but in a gutsy effort from the Russian, overcame a serious bout of nerves to knock the Australian Open 2004 champion out of the tournament in a 6-4, 7-6 (8) victory.
Considered one of the tournament favourites even though she came into the event as the 11th seed, Henin couldn't find her highest level in the up and down contest, despite holding a set point in the second set.
While Kuznetsova was able to crack serves and dominate the court with her heavy forehand, Henin was unable to move the Russian around, had trouble containing her own forehand and was sporadic while serving, finishing the contest with 41 unforced errors.
"I think I was aggressive, and I served better," Kuznetsova said. "Then I think I dictated most of the time. I have not been scared at all when I went to the match, so I just wanted to play my game and try to play with my best against her worst. She doesn't have worse, but I mean something where she doesn't like."
It was a remarkable effort from the Russian, who has had more trouble against the Belgian than any other player during her career. While neither woman played particularly cleanly, Kuznetsova fought as she ever has in Melbourne. She failed to serve out the match at 5-4 in the second set and faced set points in the breaker.
"The nerves came," the two-time Grand Slam champion said. "Then started to do a little bit of show time, it's like comedy. Women's drama going on. It's not only women's. It's like every match you see something, when it's tough matches you see something like that, and then you have to fight the nerves to fight against yourself a little bit."
Kuznetsova stood strong and watched Henin uncharacteristically double fault and then commit a forehand error to take the contest. Henin, who has been trying to reconstruct her serve in order to gain more power, double faulted nine times.
"Of course it's disappointing to lose like this," said Henin. " She is just been better than me, especially in the important moments. I got some opportunities in the second set to come back, but I never really took the lead in this match. I was really too far. I never took the good opportunities and she was much more aggressive than me. So that made a big difference."
Henin, who had just returned action at the start of the year after being sidelined for six months with an elbow injury, wasn't pleased with her play, but didn't expect much better as she had little rhythm coming into the tournament.
"I know I'm not 100%," she said. "I knew it before walking on the court. That's why I say there are no excuses. I decided to play not being 100%. It's been difficult in the last three days on my elbow and I just did everything that I could that it will be okay, but it wasn't enough. I think Svetlana played a good match. She has all the credit today."
Kuznetsova had an up and down 2010, winning just one title and disappointing at the majors, only reaching the fourth round of the Australian and US Opens. When the 23rd seed is focused, she is still one of the best players on tour because she can do just about anything with the ball, but when she's not, she's capable of spraying balls into the bleachers.
But she came into this season with a renewed commitment and taking down the woman who beat her in both Roland Garros 2006 and US Open 2007 finals felt very good.
"I just have to be there and fight. I think I fighted against myself very well and also I did against Justine," said Kuznetsova, who will next play French Open champion Francesca Schiavone in the next round. So I'm pretty pleased."
21st Asian Tenpin Bowling Championship 14 to 24 January, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
PROSPECT FOR GOLD
3rd SILVERS FOR MALAYSIA
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
2nd SILVER FOR MALAYSIA
Monday, January 17, 2011
Back-up bowler Siti wins silver at Asian meet
By SHAMSUL FITRI
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia got off to a fine start in the Asian bowling championships in Abu Dhabi when back-up bowler Siti Shazwani Ahmad Suhaimi claimed the silver medal in the women’s singles event yesterday.The 23-year-old Siti Shazwani, who won the Milo International Junior All-Stars title last month, reeled in lines of 248-230-256-216-225-189 for a six-game total of 1,364 to tie in second spot with South Korea’s Hwang Sun-ok.
Australia’s Lexi Nicoll surged to grab the gold medal with a total of 1,390 after Siti Shazwani’s calamitous final frame.
Siti Shazwani, who is making her debut in the senior-level competition, was in the driving seat to grab the gold medal up until the fifth game before two splits in the final game spoiled everything for her.
Team manager Cheah Ban Cheng said that Siti Shazwani could have been the winner with some consistency in her last game.
However, he was impressed with her performance and hope that it will continue until the end of the tournament on Sunday.
“She needs to stay focused until the end and not get too excited with her result today,” said Ban Cheng.
Among the other Malaysian women in the fray were Dayang Khairuniza Dhiyana, who finished 13th on 1,228, while elite bowler Zatil Iman Abdul Ghani was placed 19th on 1,192.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
KUMAR IS ASIA'S BEST
SULTAN AZLAN SHAH AWARD
Thailand Hockey Association
MEMBER OF HONOUR
Dato’ Seri Muneyoshi Ueda – Japan
ORDER OF MERIT
Mr. Mathavan Devadas – Singapore
AHF PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR MAN
Mr. Lei Jun – China
AHF PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR WOMAN
Ms. Shun Jun Hee – Korea
AHF PLAYERS AWARD – 2009
Man – You Hyo Sik (Korea)
Woman – Baorung Fu (China)
Boy – Muhammad Tooseeq (Pakistan)
Girl – Mazuki Arai (Japan)
AHF PLAYERS AWARD – 2010
Man – S. Kumar (Malaysia)
Woman – Park Mih Yun (Korea)
Boy – Syed Kashif Shah (Pakistan)
Girl – Zhao Yudiao
Saturday, January 15, 2011
NICOL , PUVANESWARAN PENERIMA ANUGERAH OLIMPIAN 2010
Menteri Belia dan Sukan Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek menyampaikan anugerah kepada kedua-dua atlet itu yang masing-masing membawa pulang wang tunai RM10,000 ekoran pemilihan tersebut.
Nicol diwakili Pengurus Pasukan Skuasy Sukan Asia ke Guangzhou Peter Chee pada majlis malam tadi. Tahun lepas pemain skuasy wanita nombor satu dunia itu meraih satu emas pada Sukan Komanwel dan dua emas pada Sukan Asia, dan dia juga pernah memenangi anugerah yang sama pada tahun 1998.
Beliau juga merupakan pemenang ‘National Sportswomen Award’ dari tahun 2006 hingga 2009. Menerusi satu rakaman video yang disiarkan di majlis malam ini, Nicol mengucapkan terima kasih kepada Majlis Olimpik Malaysia, Majlis Sukan Negara dan semua pihak.
Katanya anugerah itu pasti akan menyuntik semangat juangnya bagi menampilkan persembahan yang lebih mantap di masa depan. Puvaneswaran pula yang menyumbang pingat emas untuk negara pada Sukan Asia di Guangzhou menerusi acara Kumite lelaki bawah 55kg, mengumumkan persaraannya sejurus selepas itu, iaitu setelah mewakili negara dalam sukan karate selama hampir 16 tahun.
“Saya amat berbangga dan terharu dapat berdiri di sini menerima anugerah ini. Saya amat berbangga kerana tersenarai sebagai penerima anugerah ini, sebaris dengan nama-nama jaguh sukan yang lain seperti Koo Kean Keat dan Azizulhasni Awang,” katanya.
Puvaneswaran turut mengucapkan terima kasih kepada bekas jurulatihnya T. Ponniyah dan P. Arivalagan.
Antara calon-calon pemenang anugerah Olimpian tahun ini termasuk atlet terjun Pandelela Rinong, atlet wushu Chai Fong Ying, pemain beregu badminton Koo Kien Keat, atlet berbasikal Mohd Azizulhasni Awang dan pemain boling Alex Liew.
Sementara itu Bahagian Sukan Kementerian Pelajaran menerima Trofi IOC (Jawatankuasa Olimpik Antarabangsa) 2010 di atas usaha memperkenal polisi 1Murid 1Sukan di sekolah-sekolah. — Bernama
Friday, January 14, 2011
Berita Harian Online | BAM perlu profesional tangani isu Misbun
BAM perlu profesional tangani isu Misbun
2011/01/11
KEMELUT peletakan jawatan jurulatih perseorangan badminton negara, Datuk Misbun Sidek mengejutkan banyak pihak terutama peminat badminton tanah air. Persatuan Badminton Malaysia (BAM) rasanya tidak terlalu terkejut kerana mereka mungkin sudah mengetahui perkara ini akan berlaku. Pemain dan jurulatih adalah satu komponen dalam apa jua permainan. Oleh itu, pendekatan yang terbaik perlu dilakukan BAM kerana ia sebuah organisasi profesional. Dengan kumpulan pengurusan yang hebat tentu tindakan bagi mengatasi masalah peletakan jawatan ini juga hebat.
Pemain mempunyai tanggungjawab untuk menyediakan diri dengan kepakaran bagi menjadikan diri sebagai pemain berkompetensi tinggi bagi sesuatu permainan.
Persatuan mempunyai tanggungjawab bagi menyelaras agar pemain sentiasa bersedia dalam menghadapi pertandingan dengan menyediakan kemudahan termasuk jurulatih. Jurulatih bertanggungjawab menyediakan pelan tindakan agar setiap pemain mempunyai tahap pencapaian mengikut tahap pertandingan yang mereka akan mengambil bahagian.
Majlis Sukan Negara (MSN) bertanggungjawab memastikan setiap organisasi sukan mematuhi semua undang-undang dan peraturan yang ada agar ia dilaksanakan dengan sempurna.
PEMINAT SUKAN VETERAN,
Jitra, Kedah.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
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