The UAE Olympic medal .. "gone" and no longer!

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Citizens who participated in the Olympics: academies are more important than federations

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National athletes, who have participated in previous Olympics, revealed that the role of private academies, spread across the country, in building future champions, is superior to that of the UAE sports federations, because they have integrated technical, scientific and technical programs, and technical advisors who are able to formulate clear differences for athletes compared to Players graduate federations, as they put it.

The athletes demanded the sports federations to implement 10 technical and administrative points to address the defect in the body of Emirati sport and its method of work, to rise to the level of competitiveness in the global event that is repeated once every four years, most notably resorting to well-known foreign academies that graduated world Olympic champions, and benefiting from the Chinese model. In building the stars of the future according to scientific foundations that pay attention to details, and adopt innovative ideas and techniques.

They told "Emirates Today" that "the unsatisfactory results in the Tokyo Olympics, which are currently being held in the Japanese capital, are pushing for a review of candidates for membership of the boards of directors of sports federations," noting that "the qualification requirement and a certificate of good conduct is not sufficient, and it is necessary that The candidate must be the owner of an achievement or have contributed to achieving it.” They are required to take advantage of the retired players as owners of field experiences, and to involve them in planning and preparation, and to strengthen the budget to support individual games after football pulled the rug out of it, and the need to use specialized coaches who had previously prepared champions in the Olympics.

The Emirati public is eagerly waiting to win a gold medal, after the only one awarded by Sheikh Ahmed bin Hasher Al Maktoum at the 2004 Athens Olympics, while Sergio Toma won bronze in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, followed by a collective failure in the current session in Tokyo in four sports, as the bowler Saif bin Fattis ranked 24th in the skeet competition, and the judo pair Victor Sktov and Ivan Romanco left early with a weight of under 73 kg and under 100 kg, respectively, while swimmer Youssef Al Matrooshi came in 50th place in the 100-meter freestyle, with a time of 51:50 seconds, and bid farewell to runner Mohammed Hassan Al-Noubi competed after recording a time of 10:59 seconds in the preliminary round, and 10:64 seconds in the qualifying rounds, to occupy the eighth place.

• A swimming academy in Dubai that graduated Olympic champions.. Why doesn't the federation benefit from it?

• National riders are well-built and competitive if a well-rounded setup is available.

• The Saudi Athletics Federation sent a group of its runners to America to study and train.

To view the 10 demands of citizen athletes who participated in the Olympic Games,

please click on this link.

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