KONI to unveil Asian Games team by Thursday
KONI to unveil Asian Games team by Thursday
Musthofid, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
The National Sports Council (KONI) expects to announce most of
the team for the 2002 Asian Games on Thursday, but for a few
sports they remain undecided, according to national training
director here on Wednesday.
"Tomorrow (Thursday), we're going to present to KONI's
chairman, the results from the consultation meeting we had
yesterday," Imron ZS, a KONI chief in charge of training, told
reporters on Wednesday.
"But, for a few sports, we have not settled on the list until
after the athletes complete their tryouts," he said.
Those sports were beach volleyball, boxing, badminton, judo
and tae kwon do.
The beach volleyball team, which will have two male and two
female pairs, will have a final try out during the Asian Beach
Volleyball tour, which will be held in Bali next week.
The boxing squad is grooming only one athlete Bonyx Saweho,
but Bara Gomies, who has already been ordered off, could return
if he fares well enough to be considered a medal contender in
Busan, South Korea, the location for this year's Asiad.
Bara, Bonyx and junior boxer Melky Lelemboto are currently
training in Cuba.
Indonesia's prime sport, badminton has yet to decide the fixed
lineup pending the athletes' participation at the Indonesian Open
in Surabaya, East Java, next week.
"As for judo, we have yet to receive the latest report about
Aprilia (Marzuki) from Germany," Imron said. Aprilia is one of
the only two judokas that Indonesia will send to Busan. The other
is Sri Endang Lestari.
Likewise, the national tae kwon doins are currently on a tour
of South Korea. And the team could probably recruit new members
in Sinta Berliana Heru and M. Iman Dalam, both of whom are on the
traveling squad.
Although it will be a final decision on the entry list, Imron
refused to close the door completely for possible changes, given
the schedule that the entry-form-by-name list can be submitted on
Aug. 28 at the latest.
After a series of removals from an initial 176 of the
candidates at the start of the training camp early this year,
KONI has a tentative list of 104 athletes, who will compete in 20
sports.
The Korean Asian Games are scheduled for Sept. 29 to Oct. 14.
In Bangkok, four years ago, Indonesia came to the event with
119 athletes and returned home with six gold medals to finish in
11th place among 42 countries.