The player of the national team and Sharjah Karate Club in the "kata" competitions, Marwan Al-Mazmi, confirmed that the decision to postpone the Olympic Games that was scheduled to be held this summer in Tokyo, and to set a new date for it in 2021, revived the hopes of the state's players in the ability to harvest more Olympic qualifying points, by giving the opportunity to participate in more points-awarding tournaments, whether in the "Premier League" or the Asian and World Cup tournaments, which are scheduled in the last months of 2020.
Al-Mazmi told «Emirates Today» that «the recent decision issued by the International Olympic Committee and the Japanese government to postpone the Tokyo Games, reflected positively in reviving the hopes of karate players in the country, whether in individual and kata teams, and individual kumite, to obtain more opportunities and participation In tournaments that give Olympic qualifying points.
He explained: The game association has finally identified the “Paris” and “Morocco” rounds in the “Premier League” as the last two Karate Emirates matches to obtain qualifying points for qualifying to Tokyo 2020, but the decision to postpone the tournament to 2021 gave the players of the team a revival of their hopes of being able to Increasing their yield of ranking points on the ladder of the global ranking, through which the list of the first players in each category is determined to the Olympics, by expanding the circle of participation, whether in the World League rounds for the next season, or by being present at the two Asian Championships hosted by the Indonesian island of Bali next September. Followed by pal Participation in the World Cup hosted by the UAE for the first time in a historic November 2020 in conjunction with the state to host the world the most important economic event of the World Expo.
Al-Mazmi added, “External participation represents 60% of the karate player’s performance, due to the constant friction with the game’s elite in the world, compared to 40% that can only be obtained through training, and the absence of thick posts during the last period is the weakest chance of the state’s players to obtain. On valuable rating points, as my last participation in the Dubai round of the (Premier League) came, after six months of participating in the Asian Championship hosted by Uzbekistan last July ».
He continued: «Karate Emirates has very special players, and all they need to qualify for the Olympics is to increase foreign participation and collect more classification points, which was confirmed by the results of our participation in the Dubai round last February, by our loss in the semi-final (kata) against Spain, world champion, by a difference. 1.78 points, followed by depriving us of third place after the loss against Russia, just 0.5 points.
And he continued, "The Federation of the game strives to provide all means to secure our foreign participation. However, the weak budgets force the Federation to set specific options for external participation, which is beyond the Federation's will."
On the challenges posed by the Corona virus to the Emirates karate and home ban, Al-Mazmi said: “I train on a daily basis at home, and the team players and I communicate with fitness or movement coaches, through the use of remote communication means, as the trainers send weekly training schedules, and the distributor Between three fitness days and the same for movements, which helps us overcome obstacles and maintain our training levels. ”
He concluded: «The whole world shares the same conditions, but that we get additional opportunities, must be accompanied later by more effective measures that help us reduce the simple gap that separates us from the world champions, through contracts with coaches from different and advanced schools worldwide, such as trainers from Spain Turkey and Russia, for successive periods, are beneficial for us to stay up to date with the progress of the globally advanced teams. ”
Al Hameli: The health of the players in the first place
A member of the Board of Directors of the International Paralympic Committee, Chairman of the UAE National Paralympic Committee, Mohamed Al Hamli, confirmed in a press statement that the decision to postpone the summer Paralympic Games that was scheduled in Tokyo this year, against the backdrop of the outbreak of the Corona virus emerging to the summer of 2021, came primarily to preserve On the life and health of players, which is more important than anything at all.
He added: “It was necessary to take into account that the decision to postpone in a timely manner to preserve the health of the players, stressing that the players stopped the training programs that were put in place for them during the last period and postponed most of the major sporting competitions in the country and around the world, due to the outbreak of the Corona virus, had Significant impact of what had to be considered in the postponement decision, and we hope from all players the commitment of homes during the coming period in anticipation of the further spread of the virus and the dangerous complications that result from infection, and the impact on the global community ».