Azeem Fahmi & Shereen Vallabouy sah tidak sertai Terbuka Perlis

Nadi Arena (7/10/24)

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00:00The head coach of the KOM Malaysian Athletics Union, Robert Ballard,

00:05confirmed that the 100-meter runner-up, Azim Fahmi,

00:08and the 400-meter runner-up, Shireen Samson Vallabhoy,

00:11will not participate in the 2024 Sarawak Open.

00:15Despite their absence, the spirit of this competition

00:18is still felt by the Indonesian and Singaporean athletes.

00:21Azim Fahmi and Shireen Vallabhoy have returned to the United States

00:26to do their off-season training.

00:28This is a really, really important part of the focus for them

00:31because their next really super main target

00:34are the World Championships next year.

00:37So they'll be doing their off-season preparation

00:40and getting ready for a bit of maybe an indoor season

00:44and then back onto the outdoor.

00:46We're looking forward to having these other international countries,

00:49nearby neighboring countries, to compete with us.

00:52And being World Athletics events,

00:55this is really important for them as well.

00:57To pick up ranking points along the way

01:00on World Athletics and recognition.

01:03In the same development,

01:05KOM has also received new equipment from Sweden

01:08that will be used for swimming training

01:11under the MSN National Swimming Conference.

01:13We have more than 20 brand new javelins.

01:16All the products are coming from Sweden and Nordic.

01:19Nordic, you know, they picked up nearly all the medals

01:23in some of their throwing equipment in Paris recently.

01:26So we have shop foot, hammers, discus.

01:30As I mentioned, the javelins.

01:32We have new hurdles, training hurdles for us.

01:34And new start blocks, over 20 sets of start blocks here.