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Dolly, Abdullah eye better performance

Sports Reporter
Bangladeshi athletes will resume competition at the Beijing Olympics 2008 today after two days'break with a view to come out with better per-
formances than their predecessors. Rubel Rana finished last among 45 swimmers in the men's 100m backstroke heats while Imam Hossain was 46th among 51 shooters in the men's 10m air rifle earlier in the Games for Bangladesh.
Abu Abdullah, the fastest man in the country who broke Golam Ambia's 17-year-old national 100m record in April this year, will take the track on the first day of the athletics competition.
Dolly Akhter, the top female swimmer of Bangladesh, is the other participant.
A Bangladesh Army soldier, Abdullah came back from UN peacekeeping mission to return to the national championships after two years and won the 100m sprint in 10.30s, bettering Ambia's 1991 record of 10.40s.
However, the short-distance
runner is not expected to hit the same mark at the Olympics as his record run was manually timed.
The governing body of athletics in Bangladesh has yet to introduce electronic timing to local competitions, which makes the athletes ignorant about his own form.
Whatever, the 26-year-old from Noakhali who had won 2004 summer and 2003 and 2005 national titles before his mission to Ivory Coast, will try his best to gather experience from the heats to prepare for next year's South Asian Games at home.
Abdullah, who will line up for the first round Heat 8 this morning, will run with competitors from Gambia, Bahamas, Russia, Brazil, Nigeria, Hong Kong and Norway.
Derik Atkins of Bahamas has the best previous timing of 9.91s among the bunch.
After Rubel's disappointing finish, female swimmer Dolly will get a chance to compete with South Asian rivals from Pakistan and Maldives in today's 50m freestyle Heat No. 4.
Kiran Khan of Pakistan and the Maldives' Amin a th Hussain both have better qualification timing than the 22-year-old Dolly, whose
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qualification mark is 30.17s (hand timing).
Swimmers from American Samoa and Swaziland, however, show poor timing than the Bangladeshi, who also fights with swimmers from Mongolia, Bolivia and Mozambique.