Sukan Olimpik Remaja di Singapore (Ogos 2010)

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27 Februari, 2010

Mohd Amirul Shafiq Sandaran MYA Buru Pingat Olimpik Remaja 2010

KUALA LUMPUR, 27 Feb (Bernama) -- Persatuan Pelayaran Malaysia (MYA) mempertaruhkan pelayar muda, Mohamad Amirul Shafiq Md. Jais, sebagai sandaran utama untuk memburu pingat pada Temasya Olimpik Remaja 2010 di Singapura pada Ogos depan.

Pengurus Besar MYA Mohd Afendy Abdullah berkata beliau yakin dengan kemampuan Mohamad Amirul Shafiq ,15, yang berjaya menduduki tempat kedua ketika bersaing pada kejohanan pusingan kelayakan Asia Byte CII di Pattaya, Thailand pada November lepas.

"Kita berharap memenangi sekurang-kurangnya sebutir pingat menerusi acara ini memandangkan sukan perahu layar semakin popular di negara ini," katanya ketika dihubungi Bernama di sini pada Sabtu.

Selain Mohamad Amirul Shafiq, turut dipilih menyertai temasya itu ialah pelayar wanita, Khaurneeta Mohd Afendy, 15, yang juga mengambil bahagian dalam acara 'Byte CII'.

Sebanyak 26 acara sukan akan dipertandingkan pada temasya itu yang julung kalinya dianjurkan mulai 14 hingga 26 Ogos termasuk perahu layar, akuatik, memanah, olahraga, badminton, bola keranjang, tinju, berkayak, lawan pedang, bola sepak, ekuestrian, gimnastik, bola baling, hoki, judo, menembak, angkat berat dan berbasikal.

-- BERNAMA

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...dari olimpik remaja ni boleh cungkil bakat untuk represent malaysia kalau qualified ke sukan olimpik london nanti -

HangPC2

FIFA bans Iran's women soccer team for wearing hijab



Daily Times/Tehran Times     





Iran Women Soccer Team Sporty Hijab




Asmahan Mansour (Azzy)


TEHRAN, April 8 : The Iranian Olympic Committee has called on Muslim states around the world to protest to FIFA and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after the country’s women’s football team were banned for wearing the hijab at this year’s inaugural Summer Youth Olympic Games to be held Singapore.

Bahram Afsharzadeh, the secretary general of Iran’s Olympic Committee, claimed the decision is a violation of Muslims rights.

The team, who qualified to compete in the Games, which are due to be held between August 14 and 26, wearing head scarves, have been informed by FIFA that they will not be allowed to compete unless they remove the hijab.


Political or religious


Ali Kafashian, the president of the Iran Football Association, has written to FIFA to ask them to reconsider their decision, claiming that due to religious beliefs the team will be able to participate in the competitions only if they are allowed to observe the Islamic dress code.

FIFA had passed a ruling in March 2007 that the hijab is forbidden in matches. It came after a Canadian Muslim was expelled from a match for donning a hijab.

The decision, taken by the International Football Association Board (IFAB), the body which decides the laws of the game and is made up of the four FA’s from the United Kingdom and FIFA, cited law 4 which lists the basic equipment that players are allowed to wear and does not include headwear except for the goalkeeper.

Brian Barwick, the then chief executive of the Football Association and a member of the IFAB that took the decision, claimed at the time “ it’s absolutely right to be sensitive to people’s thoughts and philosophies, but equally there has to be a set of laws that are adhered to, and we favour law 4 being adhered to. ”


FIFA insensitive to culture


Afsharzadeh said the decision taken by FIFA proves that it does not care about such issues as nationality, religion and race.
“ It is also an indication of creating obstacles on their part in the way of the women’s progress, ” he added. “ Iran’s National Olympic Committee has forwarded copies of a protest letter to the IOC and a number of other leading officials around to consider the issue,” Afsharzadeh said.

Several athletes competed at the Olympics in Beijing in 2008 wearing a hijab, including Bahrain sprinter Ruqaya Al-Ghasara, the 2006 Asian Games 100 metres champion and carried her country’s flag in the Opening Ceremony.

Meanwhile, in its letter to Iran Football Federation (IFF), FIFA said they had no choice but to disallow Iran girls’ football team from participating.

"Taking into consideration the clear position stated by (the Olympic committee of) Iran, the FIFA executive committee had no choice other than to decide that Iran will not be able to participate," FIFA General Secretary Jerome Valcke stated.

This is the second time within a year that the issue of athletes donning hijab has cropped up in Singapore.


' No choice '


Meanwhile, Chief Executive Officer of the Blacktown District Soccer Football Association Jack Taylor told 2UE Radio that he did not expect any Sydney football associations to comply with the ruling if FIFA chose to impose it.

“ I couldn’t see any association, certainly in Sydney - and I know most of them - I can’t see us implementing it, ” he said.

He stated, “ You can’t make political statements ... but I don’t see the hijab as a political statement. ”

“ What are they [FIFA] going to do ? ” he asked.



Sources : http://www.harakahdaily.net/en/

HangPC2

Iran rejects female football team's headgear



By Robin Pomeroy in Tehran

Thursday, 8 July 2010


An Iranian official has rejected a new women's football strip which was created after the world football federation banned the team from international competition due to their Islamic headgear, it was reported yesterday.

Football's world-governing body FIFA banned the team in April after the Iranian Olympic Committee insisted they play in headscarves. In Iran all women are required to cover their hair in public to conform to the Islamic dress code.

In May, the Iranian Football Federation said it had reached a compromise with FIFA whereby the under-15 team would play in caps at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore on 14-26 August. Yesterday the women's youth team tried on the new strip during a demonstration match.

But, according to Mehr news agency, the official in charge of women's affairs at Iran's Physical Education Organisation stormed off when she saw that the strip did not conform to what had been ordered. Media reports did not say what she found objectionable about the new kit.

" These strips should not only be approved by international federation officials but also by Iran's Sharia law and they should comply with the Islamic framework, " she said. " We will not send the team [to Singapore] at any cost. "


Sources : http://www.independent.co.uk/

perang_sivil

Ermmm...Hopefully Malaysian Female Football Team like this too...