The new year 2010 will provide more opportunities for national athletes to excel in their sports.
4 multi-games have been lined up for these athletes to participate in, and named them as the 1st Youth Olympic Games Singapore 2010; the XIX Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010; the 16th Asian Games Guangzhou 2010 and the 2nd Asian Beach Games Muscat 2010.
"There are lots of opportunities for our athletes in every sport to compete at the highest level. So, there is no excuse for them for not working hard to become the best in Malaysia or in Asia or in the world,"
Besides the national sports associations, the state affiliates and schools were obliged to produce the future athletes.
"It is the responsibility of everybody and it is also a challenge for everybody to make the athletes to be the best in the state, in the country or in the world. We wouldn't have good national athletes if we don't have good state or school athletes.
"Now, we have to go back and see whether we have good school athletes first. Are there many of them or very few? Then, we go to the next stage. If there are really very good school athletes but there are no state athletes, then, there must be something wrong,"
And youth athletes should be given more opportunities to compete in local and international tournaments so that they can measure their strength and capability in their kind of sports, besides gauging their experience.
Majulah Sukan Untuk 1Malaysia.
