Sokongan PM kuatkan bidaan kita untuk anjur Sukan Asia 2019

KUALA LUMPUR - Klip video sokongan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak merupakan antara 'senjata" yang dibawa oleh rombongan Malaysia pada Kongres Jawatankuasa Olimpik Antarabangsa (IOC) di Vancouver, Kanada dalam usaha Kuala Lumpur untuk memenangi penganjuran Kongres IOC 2013 dan Sukan Asia 2019.

Ketua Pengarah Majlis Sukan Negara (MSN) Datuk Zolkples Embong, berkata rombongan Malaysia, yang diketuai oleh Menteri Belia dan Sukan Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek, akan membentangkan bidaan semasa Sesi IOC ke-122 esok, sebelum 115 anggota badan dunia itu mengundi.

"Malaysia diberikan masa selama 20 minit untuk membuat bidaan bagi menganjurkan Kongres IOC di Kuala Lumpur pada 2013.

''Saingan Malaysia, turut membuat bidaan ialah bandar raya Buenos Aires (Argentina)," katanya di sini, semalam.


Selain Zolkples dan Ahmad Shabery, delegasi Malaysia yang ke Vancouver semalam, termasuk Presiden Majlis Olimpik Malaysia (MOM), Tunku Imran Tuanku Ja'afar, Naib Presiden Low Beng Choo dan Setiausaha Kehormat, Datuk Sieh Kok Chi.

Zolkples berkata, Tunku Imran terlebih dahulu akan membuat bentangan mengenai pengenalan bidaan dengan mengetengahkan aspek venue serta kemampuan Malaysia, sebelum Ahmad Shabery membentangkan isu keselamatan, bajet dan sokongan kerajaan terhadap bidaan tersebut.

"Menteri akan mewakili pihak kerajaan dan ketika pembentangan itu, video klip sokongan daripada Perdana Menteri akan ditayangkan.

''Sokongan pihak kerajaan amat penting untuk meyakinkan anggota IOC mengenai kekuatan bidaan Kuala Lumpur," katanya, sambil menambah hasrat Kuala Lumpur itu direstui Kabinet.

Kongress IOC pada 2013 juga akan menentukan tuan rumah Sukan Olimpik musim panas 2020, selain melantik presiden baru IOC, bagi menggantikan Jacques Rogge yang tamat akan tempoh perkhidmatan pada tahun tersebut, katanya.

"Jika Malaysia berjaya menjadi tuan rumah Kongres tersebut, seluruh perhatian dunia tentunya tertumpu di Kuala Lumpur," kata beliau.

Beliau berkata, kejayaan memenangi bidaan untuk Kongress IOC pada 2013 itu juga akan menguatkan bidaan Malaysia untuk menjadi tuan rumah Sukan Asia pada 2019.

Malaysia hampir menjadi tuan rumah dua Sukan Asia iaitu pada 2006, yang menyaksikan negara tewas kepada Qatar, serta Sukan Asia 2010 yang akan diadakan di Guangzhou, China, selepas kerajaan menolak berikutan kos yang begitu besar.

PM's Support Strengthens Malaysia's Bid For 2013 IOC Congress

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 8 (Bernama) -- A video clip containing a message from Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak will be among Malaysia's "secret" weapons in its bid to host the 2013 International Olympic Council (IOC) Congress.

National Sports Council (NSC) Director-General Datuk Zolkples Embong said Malaysia's delegation, headed by Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek, would make a representation at the 122nd IOC Session in Vancouver, Canada on Wednesday prior to the voting by IOC's 115 members

"Malaysia is given 20 minutes to make the representation on its bid to host the 2013 IOC Congress in Kuala Lumpur. Kuala Lumpur's competitor is Buenos Aires city (Argentina)," he told Bernama here Monday.

Apart from Zolkples and Ahmad Shabery, others in the Malaysian delegation are Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) president Tunku Tan Sri Imran Tuanku Jaafar, OCM vice-president Low Beng Choo and OCM honorary secretary Datuk Sieh Kok Chi.

Zolkples said Malaysia's representation would start with Tunku Imran introducing Malaysia's bid, including on the venue and the country's capabilities in hosting the event, followed by Ahmad Shabery who would touch on on the issue of budget, security and the government's support to the bid.

"The minister is making the presentation on behalf of the government in which the prime minister's video clip will be shown. The government's support is crucial in convincing IOC members on the strength of KL's bid," he said.

Zolkples said the 2013 IOC Congress would decide the host for the 2020 Olympic Games as well as appoint a new president replacing Jacques Rogge whose term would expire by then.

"If Malaysia succeed in the bid to host the congress, all eyes will be on Kuala Lumpur," he said, addding that it would also strengthen the country's bid for the 2019 Asian Games.

He also said that the bid for the IOC event as well as the 2019 Asian Games received full support from the cabinet.

Malaysia lost to Qatar in its bid to host the 2006 Asian Games and did not bid for the 2010 Asian Games, citing the high cost in hosting the event.

China will host the 2010 Asian Games in Gaungzhou while South Korea will host the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon.

Malaysia pamerkan peningkatan

ATLET negara mendapat faedah daripada program pembangunan Sukan Komanwel 1998.

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MALAYSIA berjaya memperoleh purata 10 peratus daripada jumlah keseluruhan pingat emas yang ditawarkan dalam lima edisi Sukan SEA sejak tahun 2000.
Bilangan peratusan pungutan pingat emas itu adalah dua peratus lebih tinggi berbanding lapan peratus daripada tahun 1977 hingga 1997.

Demikian menurut laporan Majlis Olimpik Malaysia (MOM) semalam.
Laporan itu menyebut pencapaian terbaik Malaysia selepas tahun 2000 ialah ketika menjadi tuan rumah temasya dwitahunan itu pada 2001 dengan memperoleh 28.3 peratus atau 111 daripada 392 emas yang dipertandingkan.

Malaysia's Medal Haul In Past Five SEA Games Has Improved - OCM

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2 (Bernama) -- Malaysia's percentage of gold medals won in the last five SEA Games has seen a marked improvement, averaging 10 to 15 per cent of the medals at stake, compared with just 8 per cent before 2000.

A report released by the Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) said Malaysia's best haul was in the 2001 SEA Games, when Malaysia was the host and the percentage of gold medals won was 28.3 per cent or 111 of the 392 gold medals offered.

In the 2003 Vietnam SEA Games, Malaysia collected 9.7 per cent of the gold medals or 43 of the 444 offered but that increased to 13.7 per cent at the 2005 Manila SEA Games with 61 gold from 444 offered.

The Malaysian contingent, further improved on the achievement during the 2007 Korat SEA Games with 14.2 per cent or 68 of the 477 offered by host Thailand.

The recent SEA Games hosted by Laos in December, saw Malaysia achieve 10.8 per cent or 40 gold medals from the 372 total offered.

According to OCM Honorary Secretary Datuk Sieh Kok Chi, Malaysia's performance in the SEA Games has improved over the last decade.

Sukan Perpaduan Islam batal

HASRAT atlit negara beraksi di Sukan Perpaduan Islam di Teheran, April depan berkecai apabila Majlis Olimpik Malaysia (MOM) mengesahkan temasya sukan membabitkan negara Islam itu, dibatalkan.
HASRAT atlit negara beraksi di Sukan Perpaduan Islam di Teheran, April depan berkecai apabila Majlis Olimpik Malaysia (MOM) mengesahkan temasya sukan membabitkan negara Islam itu, dibatalkan.

Setiausaha Kehormat MOM, Datuk Sieh Kok Chi berkata, kegagalan tuan rumah Iran menunjukkan kesungguhan dalam penganjuran yang dijadualkan berlangsung pada 9 hingga 25 April ini di tiga bandar raya iaitu Teheran, Esfahan dan Mashhad mendorong Persekutuan Sukan Perpaduan Islam (ISSF) membatalkannya.

“Saya mendapat surat daripada ISSF minggu lalu memaklumkan Sukan Perpaduan Islam dibatalkan. Perkara ini sudah dijangka kerana Iran tidak mengambil langkah persediaan walaupun waktu kejohanan semakin hampir.

Malaysia bida tuan rumah Sukan Asia 2019

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia telah mengemukakan bidaan menganjurkan Kongres Jawatankuasa Olimpik Antarabangsa (IOC) 2013 dan Sukan Asia 2019 kepada Majlis Olimpik Asia (OCA), November lalu, kata Setiausaha Kehormat Majlis Olimpik Malaysia (OCM), Datuk Sieh Kok Chi.

Kok Chi berkata, dokumen-dokumen yang dikenali sebagai Surat Hasrat, telah dikemukakan dengan kelulusan kerajaan.

"Keputusan mengadakan kongres itu hanya akan diketahui tidak lama lagi. Tapi keputusan bagi hos Sukan Asia 2019 hanya akan diketahui menjelang 2012. Ia merupakan proses yang panjang dan memenatkan terutama dalam membida Sukan Asia," katanya di sini, semalam.

Malaysia Submit Bids To Host 2013 IOC Congress And 2019 ASIAD

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 20 (Bernama) -- Malaysia has submitted bids to host the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) congress in 2013 and the 2019 Asian Games for the first time.

Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) secretary Datuk Sieh Kok Chi said the bids were submitted with the approval of the government.

"The outcome of the IOC congress will be known soon but the results for the 2019 Asian Games host job would only be known by 2012. It's a long and tedious process, especially bidding for the Asian Games," he told Bernama here Wednesday.

Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek will lead a delegation to the IOC session in Vancouver, Canada, during the Winter Olympics on Feb 10, to make a final presentation (next month) before the 115 IOC members cast their votes for the 2013 congress.

Guna Akta Sukan - TPM

KUALA LUMPUR - Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin berkata, ketempangan yang wujud dalam persatuan sukan akibat pengurusan yang tidak cekap boleh diatasi jika Akta Pembangunan Sukan 1997 digunapakai secara serius.

Walaupun mengakui, banyak kekurangan yang perlu diperbaiki untuk membolehkan akta tersebut berfungsi dengan lebih efisien, namun ia masih mampu membantu melancarkan pengurusan persatuan sukan negara yang tempang kerana kegagalan pemimpinnya.

Muhyiddin mahu MOM lebih tegas

Dalam menangani masalah ahli gabungan

TIMBALAN Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin mahu Majlis Olimpik Malaysia (MOM) bertindak lebih tegas serta memainkan peranan aktif dalam menangani masalah yang membelenggu ahli gabungannya.

Muhyiddin berkata, MOM sebagai organisasi yang memayungi hampir semua persatuan sukan kebangsaan di negara ini, perlu mengembalikan kedudukannya untuk memainkan peranan supaya setiap ahli gabungannya dapat diurus tadbir sebaik mungkin.

Daniel Bego, Women's Badminton Team Clinch 2009 Olympian Awards

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 16 (Bernama) -- Top national swimmer Daniel Bego and the national women's badminton team were named the Best Male and Female Olympians of 2009, respectively, at the Olympian Night held at Wisma OCM here on Saturday night.

Daniel, 20, who hails from Kuching, was selected for having won five gold medals and having rewritten four records, in the 100m, 200m, 400m freestyle and 100m butterfly, at the 25th SEA Games in Laos last month.

He won the fifth gold in the 200m butterfly event but fell short of rewriting the record.

This is Daniel's second Olympian award. He won the first one in 2007 after having qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympics in three events and having bagged two golds, in the 100m butterfly and 200m freestyle, as well as having set new records at the Korat SEA Games in 2007.

Daniel Bego Olimpian negara 2009

DANIEL (tengah) bersama barisan pemain badminton wanita negara menunjukkan pingat serta replika cek yang diraih selepas diumumkan selaku penerima anugerah Olimpian Lelaki dan Wanita 2009 di Kuala Lumpur malam tadi.

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PERENANG sensasi, Daniel Bego dan skuad badminton wanita negara diumumkan sebagai penerima anugerah Olimpian Lelaki dan Wanita 2009 di Wisma Majlis Olimpik Malaysia (MOM), Kuala Lumpur malam tadi.

Daniel, 20, dipilih sebagai penerima anugerah itu di atas kejayaannya merangkul lima pingat emas dan memperbaharui empat rekod Sukan SEA dalam acara 100, 200, 400 gaya bebas dan 100 meter kuak kupu-kupu pada Sukan SEA XXV di Laos, Disember lalu.

Former great Keng Liat wants Daniel to take over the mantle

Sports’ great: Keng Liat (second right) with OCM president Tunku Imran Tuanku Ja’afar and the other Hall of Fame inductees (from left), Dr Delilkan, Darshan Singh, Selvaraj and Ro Bin.

 

PETALING JAYA: Alex Lim Keng Liat is the best swimmer the country has produced thus far and he does not want the sports fraternity to keep harping on it.

In fact, it will make his day if Daniel Bego, who won the 2009 Olympian of the Year award last Saturday, takes over the mantle with a mighty splash in the Asian Games in Guangzhou in November.
“I have retired from swimming for some time but people still keep mentioning my name as the best the country has seen,” said Keng Liat, who is the only Malaysian to have won a swimming gold medal in the Asian Games – in the 100m backstroke event in Bangkok in 1998.

“I think Malaysian swimming needs a new role model, especially the younger generation who are just starting to move up.

“They want to have someone to relate to and Daniel is perhaps the closest to fill the role after what he achieved at the SEA Games in Laos last month.

Ro Bin among five inducted into OCM Hall of Fame

PETALING JAYA: Former Asian Games gold medallists Ho Ro Bin and Lim Keng Liat are among five outstanding former athletes and officials who will be inducted into the Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) Hall of Fame.

Ro Bin is the most successful Malaysian wushu athlete to date. He was the country’s first gold medal in the sport at the 2002 Busan Asiad. He also emerged as the world champion twice – in 1999 and 2005.
In the SEA Games between 1999 and 2005, Ro Bin won a total of three gold medals before retiring from competition in 2006 to become a coach.

Keng Liat is the most outstanding Malaysian swimmer and he is only one to have won an Asian Games gold medal in the sport — in Bangkok in 1998.

Shakam harus seimbang: Kok Chi

MAJLIS Olimpik Malaysia (MOM) menegur sebarang perubahan kepada Skim Hadiah Kemenangan Sukan (Shakam) harus menampilkan elemen keseimbangan serta mengambil kira tahap disiplin terbabit dalam temasya antarabangsa.

Sambil mengalu-alukan pengumuman kerajaan melakukan penilaian semula Shakam, Setiausaha Kehormatnya, Datuk Sieh Kok Chi berkata jumlah diberikan juga harus bersesuaian dengan kadar di beberapa negara rantau ini.

"Saya menyambut baik keputusan kerajaan (mengenai Shakam)," kata Kok Chi, semalam. "Bagi saya jumlah kenaikan itu perlu mengambil kira tahap sukan terbabit dalam temasya antarabangsa di Sukan Sea, Asia, Komanwel dan Olimpik.

Keng Liat youngest chef-de-mission for a major Games

Top honour: Lim Keng Liat, now a chief coach in Sabah, is the most successful swimmer Malaysia have produced to date.

 

PETALING JAYA: It was another feather in the cap for former national swimming ace Alex Lim Keng Liat as chef-de-mission of the Malaysian contingent for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore from Aug 14-26.
The 30-year-old Keng Liat, who swam in three consecutive Olympic Games from 1996, will become the youngest-ever chef-de-mission of a Malaysian contingent for a major Games.
Since quitting competition after the 2006 Doha Asian Games, Keng Liat has taken up a coaching role and he is now the swimming chief coach for Sabah.