Asian Beach Games: Soul-searching time for jiu-jitsu team
The Pakistan jiu-jitsu group managed to win a many medals for a country. PHOTO COURTESY: TARIQ ALI
KARACHI: Pakistan’s jiu-jitsu contestant Muhammad Ammar suggested it was a unsatisfactory debate for him and his compatriots during a recently resolved 2016 Asian Beach Games in Da Nang, Vietnam.
Ammar, who was a bullion medallist in a prior book in 2014 and one of a comparison players in a team, believes it was vigour and highlight that got to a team.
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The Pakistan jiu-jitsu group managed to win a many medals for a nation — dual china and 5 bronze — though missed out on bullion for a initial time in 4 years.
They had won dual bullion and 3 china medals in 2014.
“It’s unsatisfactory and heart-breaking too,” Ammar told The Express Tribune. “I don’t censure anything other than a fact that we fell brief and there’s no forgive for that. I’m usually looking for one some-more eventuality to infer that we can recover a repute as a tip group in Asia by December, when we will be going to a Asian Championship.”
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Ammar pronounced a players usually reached a Asian Beach Games venue a night before a eventuality due to immigration and moody issues.
“We were underneath measureless stress,” pronounced Ammar. “We missed a domestic moody in Vietnam as it took time to get a visas on arrival. We had to wait roughly 12 hours before throwing a subsequent plane, so of march we were really disturbed and sleepy by a time we got to Da Nang.”
Meanwhile, Pakistan Ju-Jitsu Federation President Khalil Ahmed termed it a unsatisfactory result, observant a association will now hunt for new players and will be reviewing formula from a games.
“We need to have self-accountability,” pronounced Ahmed. “We were given all claim comforts by a Pakistan Sports Board, though a formula were not as good as a final time, so we’ve motionless to be stricter with a goals now. We’re also skipping a universe championship subsequent month due to this result.”
The central combined that they are now aiming to urge Pakistan’s ranking during a Asian Championship in December.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 5th, 2016.
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