KUALA LUMPUR, April 27 (Bernama) — To have athletes of international standards Malaysia will have a new approach of training them at a young age.
Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek said the approach used now through the education system was less than appropriate.
“An athlete should start at a young age and the focus of his or her sport should be on the body form and the like,” he told reporters after a visit to the Tun Razak Hockey Stadium in Jalan Duta here Monday.
Ahmad Shabery said in some countries, like China, the selection of athletes was done while they were still children and that is why such countries had a large pool of athletes.
“Two schools now - the Sekolah Sukan Bukit Jalil and the Sekolah Sukan Bandar Penawar- should not also focus on all sports,” he said.
The schools had however produced good athletes like Datuk Lee Chong Wei (badminton), cyclists and archers,” he said.
Other world standard athletes like Datuk Nicol Ann David (squash), Shalin Zulkifli (ten-pin bowling) and Nurul Huda Bahrain (swimming) however were the product of other methods, he said.
Ahmad Shabery said a body would be set up to study approaches in depth and the matter would also be brought to the joint committee of his ministry, the Education Ministry and the Higher Education Ministry soon.
– BERNAMA
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