Nadi Arena (24/6/24)
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00:00As the Paris Olympics are coming up, it seems like a challenge for the athletes.
00:06Will Azim Fahmy and Sherin Samson-Veloboy be able to compete there?
00:12However, the answer is already there because in Kazakhstan,
00:16they were not able to complete the 10-second record for the category that Azim participated in.
00:22And also for Sherin Samson-Veloboy,
00:24they were not able to complete the 50.95-second record.
00:29And this makes these two athletes unworthy to go there later.
00:35The official decision was made in Kazakhstan two days ago.
00:38The national sensation runner, Muhammad Azim Fahmy,
00:41won the 100-meter bronze medal behind the runners from Thailand,
00:44Buripol Bonsun and Turkish athlete Kehen Ozer.
00:47Meanwhile, the country's track queen, Sherin Samson-Veloboy,
00:50won the 400-meter gold medal for women with a 52.60-second record.
00:55With a time record that is not on the side of these two athletes,
00:58Robert Ballard, as the technical director of the KOM Malaysian Olympics,
01:03has his own reaction.
01:26Although unworthy in terms of merit for both of these countries' hopes for the first slot,
01:31there is still one universal slot that can be filled.
01:34Ballard informed that the candidate for the slot is already in his mind
01:37based on the data that has been analyzed by him.
01:40With a 60-40 chance at this moment for both athletes,
01:44but needs the final assessment from the KOM Clubs' election authority.
01:56So then obviously they will be chosen for the 100 meters.
02:01So all the data will be provided to the selection committee
02:07and they will look at that and see and determine who they believe
02:13would be best representative for Malaysia to go to the Olympics.
02:18And that's all the report from Zaki Zainal reporting from Bukit Jalil
02:24for Nadi Arena.