Egypt's hopes in the Olympics are pinned to 3 games
Egypt, participating in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, with the largest delegation in its history, with 134 athletes, is pinning hopes on the sports of wrestling, taekwondo and karate.
While the expedition includes 50 female athletes and 84 athletes competing in 24 sports, Egypt's previous largest delegation was at the 2016 Rio Olympics, with 120 athletes.
Through its participation since the Stockholm Olympics in 1912, Egypt has won seven gold medals, 10 silver and 14 bronze.
Egypt’s weightlifters are absent due to the International Federation’s decision to suspend the country for two years due to positive doping samples for a number of players, most notably Sarah Samir, who won bronze in Rio 2016. The Pharaohs’ weightlifters have the largest balance of medals, with 5 gold, 3 silver and 6 bronze, the first of which is Mr. Nassir’s gold Amsterdam 1928 and the last bronze medal for Mohamed Ihab at Rio 2016.
Salah’s absence
and Egypt’s chances of winning medals in Tokyo, Hisham Hatab, head of the Olympic Committee, told AFP, “I do not like making promises in such participations, and what is important for us now is to complete the preparation programs for athletes in the scientific form established by the Olympic Committee. We have distinguished athletes in the pentathlon. wrestling, archery, equestrian, gymnastics and taekwondo.
Regarding the player nominated to carry the Egyptian flag at the opening ceremony, Hatab said, “We had hoped that Liverpool player Mohamed Salah would join the Olympic team, but Liverpool refused because of his association with the start of the preparation period with his team and his frequent participation with the Egyptian national team in the 2022 World Cup and African Nations qualifiers in January. Next up in Cameroon, we denied him the honor of carrying the Egyptian flag, as he is one of Egypt’s ambassadors in European and international football.”
Many considerations for coronation, for
his part, Sherif El-Erian, Secretary of the Olympic Committee and President of the Federation of Pentathlon, revealed the talk about Egypt's chances in the Olympics, "We have a statistical system that we follow. During the 2016 Rio Olympics we had 16 players who were able to compete, as for the Tokyo Olympics, we have 20 players in individual games in addition to Handball and football.
He continued, "Of course, I hope that the number will exceed the three bronze medals achieved by the Egyptian champions in the Rio Olympics, but it must be noted that the competition will be intense and there are many considerations involved in the result, such as the draw."
Al-Arian considered that the closest sports to the coronation are karate through Gianna Farouk, Ali Al-Sawy and Feryal Ashraf, in archery Azmi Muhaliba, the owner of many world medals, in taekwondo Saif Issa and Hedaya Malak, and in wrestling Muhammad Ibrahim (Kisho) and Abdul Latif Manea.
As for swimming, if Farida Othman reaches the final, all possibilities will be possible, "but it should be noted that the distinguished race for Farida, in which she won two world championships, is the 50m butterfly, which is not registered in the Olympics."
The sport of fencing also has strong opportunities through the Al-Hussam men's team, as well as Alaa Abu Al-Qasim, the silver medalist of the London 2012 Olympics in the fencing.
The equestrian team hopes to play the role of the black horse after shining in the world championships, while in the modern pentathlon, there are realistic opportunities for players Ahmed El-Gendy and Ahmed Ashraf.
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