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Summer Athletics today

An opportunity for reality check

Sports Reporter
Athletes now preparing for next year's South .Asian (SA) Games will get an opportunity to assess their own performance when the daylong 10th National Summer Athletics Competition takes place at the Bangabandhu National Stadium today.
Some 36 athletes including 12 women, who have been training for the SA Games since January, however will have to be content with the age-old hand timing in what would be the last competitive meet for them ahead of the biggest regional sporting carnival, scheduled to be held in Dhaka from January 29 to February 9.
Apart from them, another 350 athletes including 125 women from across the country are also expected to compete in the meet, which is being held after a four-year gap.
Tn a bid to assess the performance of the athletes ahead of the 11th SA Games in Bangladesh, we are staging a daylong meet and hope the athletes will be able to evaluate themselves," said Bangladesh Amateur Athletic Federation general secretary Shah Alam at a press conference at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday.
Of the 36 SA Games camp's athletes, five --Nazmun Nahar Beauty, Jasmine Akter, Al Amin. Afzal Hossain Surya and Emran Bhuiya — will miss the meet as they have been receiving higher training in Malaysia.
The meet has been decked out with 21 events including 13 for women, the same num-’ ber of events included in the coming SA Games.
Asked whether hand timing will reflect the real assessment of an athlete's performance, Alam said that they would have to live with it at the moment
"I agree that hand timing might give a false impression but at the moment we have nothing to do as the electronic board has only arrived and it will not be ready before one month, ” said the former fastest man of Bangladesh.
The federation is expecting to win two gold medals -- in the women's 100m hurdles and in men's long jump — in the SA Games, dropping the hope of clinching the men's 100m sprint crown.
"Foujia Huda Jui and Al Amin are doing well in their respective 100m hurdles and long jump events and we hope they will win gold medal in the SA Games, ” said Shah Alam.
"Our hopes of winning the men's sprint were effectively dashed after the departure of sprinters Shamsuddin and Abu Abdullah," said a dejected Shah Alam.
Asked whether they were aware of the records of other nations' athletes, Alam said that they were more or less aware of it.
"We will however get an up-to-date picture during next month's Asian track and field competition in China where top athletes from the subcontinent are supposed to compete," he said.