August 12, 2012
It is Time to Hold Our Sports Officials to Account
by Tan Siok Choo@www.thesundaily.com
IF officials concerned in Malaysian sports were bonds, distant too many have been expected to be classified as junk. Only a handful could conceivably qualify for a tip nick rating of AAA.
In new months, some important decisions were irrational, if not ludicrous. One e.g. was allowing our strongest Olympic bullion award contender, Datuk Lee Chong Wei, to take partial in a Thomas Cup.
Given which a Thomas Cup is a team eventuality as well as Malaysia's chances of winning this year were poor, was it value jeopardising Chong Wei's bid to win a country's initial bullion award in a Olympics for a non-achievable victory?
He severely harmed his ankle during a eventuality hold in late May. Despite a condensed precision period, Chong Wei won a initial diversion opposite bullion medallist Lin Dan as well as lost by usually two points in a third deciding diversion in a finals.
This raises a single touching question: could Chong Wei have won a bullion award if he hadn't been injured?That 29-year-old Chong Wei is now being asked to cruise competing during a next Olympics in 2016 additionally highlights another issue a near-total miss of period planning in sports.
In contrast, China's Chen Long who won a bronze award as well as has mostly been touted as Lin Dan's inheritor is usually twenty years old.
Malaysia's miss of a tube of world-class sports people is due to officials' over-emphasis on short-term gains during a expense of long-term growth.
For example, instead of awarding furious cards to promising people for a 
London Olympics, reduction convincing criteria appear to have been used. As Head of Mission Tun Ahmad Sarji pronounced "there is no indicate promulgation an athlete who is roughly during a end of his or her career."
Another e.g. of unnoticed priorities was a warding off by state officials from Kedah, Negri Sembilan, Penang, Selangor as well as Terengganu to allow their athletes to take partial during a World Junior championships in Barcelona.
Their warding off stemmed from a actuality a date of a tellurian under-19 meet clashed with which of Sukan Malaysia (Sukma) hold in Kuantan last month.
What is a motive for giving priority to a inhabitant eventuality hold each year over a tellurian eventuality which would have supposing glorious bearing for young athletes?
That America's 17-year-old Missy Franklin as well as China's 16-year-old Ye Shiwen won bullion medals in swimming in a Olympics emphasises a actuality which youth is increasingly an item in tellurian sporting achievement.
Admittedly, not all officials deserve to be rated next investment grade. In London, Pandelela Rinong won a bronze in diving a initial Olympic award for a sport as well as a initial won by a Malaysian woman. That she is usually nineteen years aged equates to she can be a contender for a 2016 Olympics.
Like Chong Wei, Pandelela exhibited steely integrity to fight as well as win a bronze award after her initial dive relegated her to 10th in front of among twelve contenders.
Pandelela's success additionally suggests a official bent to mostly short-change women in conditions of funding, unfamiliar coaching as well as appearance in abroad meets is both astigmatic as well as self-defeating.
That Malaysia's scuba divers additionally won medals during a Commonwealth Games, Asian Games as wel! l as uni verse championships is due to a decision by a Amateur Swimming Union of Malaysia as well as a National Sports Council to sinecure a foreigner as manager Yang Zhuliang from China.
Yang's success in diving's prompts a subject either badminton where coaches similar to Morten Frost Hansen (left), Fang Kaixiang as well as Rexy Mainaky left in unhappy circumstances would have finished significantly improved if unfamiliar coaches had been since a same poke over players as Manchester United's manager, Sir Alex Ferguson rsther than than treated with colour similar to disposable cutlery.
Although squash isn't an Olympic event, Dato' Nicol David has dominated a sports. Her longevity as a universe series a single is a reverence to her undeniable bent as well as single-mindedness in achieving tellurian success.
However, even means people need great coaching as well as early bearing in a general arena. Nicol was a double universe junior champion. At 23, she became a youngest universe series a single in Jan 2006.
Going forward, tip sports officials should commence a cost-benefit research of their monetary support for sports associations. Future allocations should be based on results completed per capita.
If 10 divers, trained by a single unfamiliar coach, won a single bronze in a Olympics, then diving deserves a bigger allocation than alternative sports.
After a badminton last in London, Chong Wei apologised for his failure to win a bullion medal. Chong Wei's reparation wasn't necessary. It is Malaysia which owes Chong Wei as well as alternative sports personalities an reparation for allowing officials unobstructed discretion to bungle their charges as well as their sports.
Opinions expressed in this article have been a personal views of a writer as well as should not be attributed to any alternative organisation she is connected with. She can be contacted during siokchoo@thesundaily.com
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