Sub-par athletes may get the axe<\/p>\n
Moch. N. Kurniawan, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Local track and field athletes vying to make the national team
\nfor the 2005 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games face dismissal from the
\nnational training program if they lose at the upcoming national
\nchampionships, according to the national track association's
\nboss.<\/p>\n
The three-day championships begin at Madya stadium in Central
\nJakarta on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\"If they (national training program athletes) lose, we will
\nfind out why. If the losers can't come up with a good reason for
\na bad performance, they will be dismissed from the national
\nteam,\" the Athletics Association of Indonesia (PASI) chairman Bob
\nHasan, said during a press conference here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\"The winners of the championship will take their places on the
\nteam.\"<\/p>\n
Some 400 athletes from 29 provincial chapters of PASI will
\nparticipate in the event. Gorontalo is the only chapter not
\nsending representatives.<\/p>\n
Athletes will try to challenge the athletes that had earlier
\nbeen picked for the special training program such as women's
\nsprinter Deisy Sumigar and men's sprinter John Herman Murai.<\/p>\n
John has recently won two legs of the 100-meter Asian Grand
\nPrix, but he will skip the short sprint and instead compete in
\n200.<\/p>\n
The national championship features a total of 40 events this
\nyear, down from 46 in previous years. The decathlon and
\nheptathlon are among the events that will not be done this year.<\/p>\n
Bob explained that the removal of several events from the
\nnational championship was because of a lack of participants in
\nthose events.<\/p>\n
The opening day of the championship will offer 13 gold medals.<\/p>\n
The events are men's 5,000 meters, the men's discus throw,
\nmen's shot put, men's 3,000-meter steeplechase, men's javelin
\nthrow, women's triple jump, women's high jump, women's 3,000-
\nmeter steeplechase, women's 10,000 meters, women's and men's 800
\nmeters, women's and men's 200 meters.<\/p>",
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