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29 called for SAF trials

Sports Reporter
The Bangladesh
Amateur Atbetics Federation (BA AF) yesterday called up 29 athletes including
eight women for preliminary training prior to the selection of the Bangladesh track and field squad for the fifth South Asian Federation (SAF) Games, to be held in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo Dec 22-30 this year
The newly-constituted BAAF executive committee has also formed a panel of five coaches to conduct the training camps They arc Arun Chandra Chakma. Kitab All. Md Shaha Alam, Mir Sharif Hassan and Sufla Khatun.
9*tional men's double sprint champion Golam Ambia who set a new national mark in the national championships last month - also bettering the existing SAF Games mark foe the 100 metres dash—leads the list of athletes called for the initial camp. His female counlcrpart Feroza Khatun leads the name of eight women called to the camp.
The others are: Men: Farid Khan. Ghlyaauddln. Mujlbur Rahman. Solalman Majumdar. Shah Alam Talukdar, Mushtaq Ahmed. Mohammad All, Banl Amin. Aizal Hossain. Nazrul Islam. Jahangir Alam. Mominul Huq and Mustafa Talukdar (Bangladesh Army); Shah Jalal Mobin. Mehdi Hassan. Mllzar Hossain. (BJMC); Wazlur Rahman, and Emdadul Haq (BTMC); Samar Ranjan Kar Habloo, and Ajmal Hossain (Bangladesh Customs).
Women: Feroza Khatun. Najma Haider Rafeza and Sumita Goswami (BTMC); Nilufar Yasmin. Nasima Akhter and Jasmine (BJMC); Shefall Rani Dey (Bangladesh Ansars); and Rokeya Begum (Bangladesh Customs).
While the BAAF list obvi ously goes by the performances in the last 19th national championships held at the Army Stadium, lianani Feb 1 1 -14 with the top names tn each discipline—including some na tional record setters—yet only Golam Ambia stands out as a gold medal prospect at the next Games because his Is the only timing that is better than a standing SAF mark. The others, despite their personal best timings, would be hard pushed to garner a medal unless they can muster radical improvements in their efforts.
Bangladesh, which had dominated the men’s sprints in the first three SAF Games, held in Kathmandu, Dhaka and Calcutta In 1984-’85 and ’87 respectively, thanks mainly to the superlative Individual per formances by the late la mented soldier Havlldar Md Shah Alam, as well as his relay te ammates Shah Jalal Mobln and Shahanuddln Chowdhury, were forced to relinquish their pole position In the sprints at the last Games In Islamabad In 1989 where our overall performance in all, ten disciplines was deplorable.
Yet despite the setbacks suffered at the Islamabad
Games our athletics bosses failed to learn their lessons and sent a squad to the last Asian Games in Beijing last year where too our runners failed to get off the starting blocks, literally
According to observers, the BAAF and our sports administrators should guard against the pitfalls of over optimism and plan the training programme by putting things In proper perspective As one se nior athlete of yesteryears put it: "It's time we began showing some respect for our national prestige.