Asif Dar recommends shunting in POA

Lahore: Former Olympian Asif Dar strongly criticized the officials of  the sports board and Pakistan Olympic Association for poor performance of the Pakistani Squad in the youth Olympic Games held at Nanjing, China.

He said our youth contingent has failed to win a single medal in the youth Olympic Games, thus following the footsteps of their seniors who have failed to win a medal in consecutive five Olympic Games held in last two decades.

Similarly, our juniors in all the sports have never impressed at international level. In the last Commonwealth Games, tiny islands like Kiribati and Granada having populations in thousands won Gold Medals. Whereas, our players representing around 20 Crore people failed to win a single Gold.

Above facts clearly indicate that not only our present is dark but our future too is not bright. Despite these poor showings, around 300 officials and players are fastening seat belts to reach South Korea for participation in the 17^th Asian Games.

It has become a practice since years that before participation in such events our players and officials make tall claims but when they come back after giving pathetic performance they always start giving lame excuses. Instead of crying later, let us weigh expected performance of our Korea bound contingent which looks as follow.

Sports                                   Expected performance

Archery                                      Joyriding

Badminton                                 Joyriding

Baseball                                    Bleak chance of medal

Boxing                                       Bleak chance of medal

Cricket  (Women)                      Confirm medal

Equestrian                                 Joyriding

Football                                     Joyriding

Gymnastic                                 Joyriding

Hockey                                      Good chance of medal

Judo                                           Bleak chance of medal

Kabaddi                                     Good chance of medal

Karate                                        Bleak chance of medal

Rowing                                       Bleak chance of medal

Rugby                                        Joyriding

Shooting                                    Bleak chance of medal

Squash                                      Good chance of medal

Swimming                                  Joyriding

Table Tennis                              Joyriding

Taekwondo                                Joyriding

Lawn Tennis                              Joyriding

Volleyball                                   Joyriding

Weightlifting                               Joyriding

Wrestling                                    Joyriding

Wushu                                        Joyriding

 

It is not out of context to mention that many of the oil rich countries who have much higher ranking in football than Pakistan are not participating in the Asian Games to save foreign exchange. Whereas, Pakistan football team which has hardly won one match per Asian Games is going there just to face another humiliation. In fact, this large scale participation in more than 20 sports is bribe to respective federation officials to win their vote in the coming Pakistan Olympic Association elections.

Keeping in view the present unrest in the country due to floods, load shedding, unemployment, poverty, hunger this mammoth joyriding is criminal which should be stopped at any cost. As concerned ministry, Pakistan Sports Board, Pakistan Olympic Association and sports federations are part of this joyriding no one will stop the joy riders from going there.  Under these circumstances, Supreme Court of Pakistan is requested to take suo moto notice of this criminal act on the part of concerned officials and stop such leisure trips till our sportsmen are fit to perform well at international level.