Indian Boxer beats Pakistani boxer 5-0 in Commonwealth Games opening round

[lastofthepatriots]

Brother, I am so annoyed at Pakistan because their investment in sports in NIL. We have a girl in Rawalpindi who has progressed to blue belt, she has funded her own training in the US and Europe, and she was invited to Korea for invitationals and not 1 (not a single sponsor) paid for her flight...

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This is the state, so how can sports flourish in this atmosphere?

Mobilink Jazz used to sponsor our women's shooting team - even they pulled out because of some phadda with some retired Brigadier sahib:
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This is despite Pakistan having three Olympic level shooters in Javaria Shafqat, Mehwish Farhan and Fatima Azim

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Pakistan represented by only 10 athletes at Tokyo Olympics 2020 - which comprised of the following:

• athletics
• badminton
• judo
• shooting
• swimming
• weightlifting

What support have we provided to Haider Ali who made history by being the first ever Pakistani athlete to secure gold in Paralympics in 2020? Do people even know of him? Is he celebrated as a national champion? Hell no!View attachment 866474
Pakistan is not short of inspirational sportsmen and women:
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It is very unfortunate that Pakistan sports, over the years, have become politicised and nepotistic.

Lack of availability of proper facilities and infrastructure, inadequate role of sports federations and lack of support from the government has badly affected Pakistan’s graph in sports. Perhaps the biggest reason for the extraordinary decline in sports in Pakistan is lack of funding and vision. Pakistan’s sports budget is the lowest in South Asia, less than that of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and even Afghanistan.

To add insult to injury this is how we treat national sports legends:
In July 2021, former hockey Olympian and member of the winning team of the 1994 World Cup Naveed Alam passed away. Alam had been diagnosed with blood cancer.

He underwent chemotherapy at Shaukat Khanum Hospital in Lahore and his health deteriorated after it. He was transferred to the intensive-care unit after his health deteriorated but in vain. Alam had appealed to the federal and provincial government to take note and provide necessary aid for his treatment, which was estimated to cost four million rupees. He helped coach the teams of Pakistan, China and Bangladesh.

We need to move away from this nepotistic and outdated method of managing sports teams and initiate grass-roots level sports foundations to nurture, support and grow talent, funding should be sought from corporate sector and pressure should be placed on federal government to increase funding for investment in sports in Pakistan.

Only one man can save us from this sad predicament..

 

[waz]

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CWG 2022: Shiva Thapa beats Pakistan's boxer Suleman Baloch 5-0 in round one
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CWG 2022: Shiva Thapa beats Pakistan's boxer Suleman Baloch 5-0 in round one

Shiva Thapa will now play in the round of 16

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Congrats to the Indian boxer.

BUT Pakistanis as an ethnic group especially in the UK are the most over represented group in combat sports. We are the only South Asian group to boast world champions in pro boxing and our young men compete and are successful in the most competitive circuits in the west e.g. the UK.


Here are just two examples.

Adam Azim

Hamzah Sheeraz

I do feel this thread was a bit of a dig which is hilarious considering the ground realities....

 

[Goritoes]

bechare Indians ko kuch tu mile khush hone ke liye, chote log choti choti khushiyan

 

[blain2]

There is no money for sports in Pakistan. Unless the private sector steps in to sponsor, Pakistani athletes can only go so far on their own.

Like most of the third world, priorities in Pakistan are on survival. You need more people active physically to compete. That happens when you have time, money and resources. There will always be exceptions who beat the odds but if one compares the athletics programs in the West/China/Russia etc., competitive sports are a serious business and not a part time hobby.

As one poster posted above, Pakistanis in the West tend to do well in sports because the economic situation is not as dire as it would be for a boxer in Liyari, Balochistan.

 

[Kharral]

There is no money for sports in Pakistan. Unless the private sector steps in to sponsor, Pakistani athletes can only go so far on their own.

Like most of the third world, priorities in Pakistan are on survival. You need more people active physically to compete. That happens when you have time, money and resources. There will always be exceptions who beat the odds but if one compares the athletics programs in the West/China/Russia etc., competitive sports are a serious business and not a part time hobby.

As one poster posted above, Pakistanis in the West tend to do well in sports because the economic situation is not as dire as it would be for a boxer in Liyari, Balochistan.

 

[blain2]

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Do understand that the entire budget allocated to this organization, i.e. Pakistan Olympics Association (POA), is ~$5M by the GoP.

Meagre amount allocated for sports and related projects in Federal Budget 2020-21

Only two new schemes worth Rs 595 million that are related to preparation and holding of South Asian Games have been made part of the budgetary documents.

www.dawn.com

 

[Kharral]

Do understand that the entire budget allocated to this organization, i.e. Pakistan Olympics Association (POA), is ~$5M by the GoP.

Meagre amount allocated for sports and related projects in Federal Budget 2020-21

Only two new schemes worth Rs 595 million that are related to preparation and holding of South Asian Games have been made part of the budgetary documents.

www.dawn.com

$5 million is a lot of money.

Besides sports is for Noobs, Legends play the Great Game

 

[DabbuSardar]

$5 million is a lot of money.

Besides sports is for Noobs, Legends play the Great Game

This pahadis and haryanvis are making musclemen at such rate winning everything.
Damn haryana alone may have won more medals than some countries..meanwhile punjab next door drowns in drugs lol..

5 millions wtf bruh...a couple IPL players make more that

 

[Tomcats]

Another gold in sight as wrestler Muhammad Sharif Tahir reaches final of 74kg freestyle wrestling at CWG 2022​

Wrestler Muhammad Sharif Tahir reached the finals of the 74-kilogramme freestyle category at the Commonwealth Games on Saturday, boosting the country’s hopes of another medal.

He beat his opponent — New Zealand’s Cole Hawkins — 11-0 through a victory by technical superiority, without any point scored by the latter.

He will next face India’s Naveen Naveen today for the gold medal. The match is scheduled for sometime between 9pm and 11:30pm.

Earlier this week, Nooh Dastagir Butt smashed the Commonwealth Games record and earned a gold medal for Pakistan.


On the sixth day of competition in Birmingham, it was Butt’s breathtaking lift that delivered the gold, the 23-year-old improving on his bronze at the previous edition of the Games in Australia’s Gold Coast four years ago.

He had signalled his intent to win gold from the start of the men’s +109kg weightlifting final when he was imperious in the scratch — first lifting 170kg and then improving it to 173kg in his second attempt.

A botched attempt at 175kg didn’t matter. He led the field halfway through the final, with New Zealander David Andrew Liti (170kg) second and India’s Gurdeep Singh in a tie for the third spot with Gordon Shaw at 167kg.

Butt then obliterated the field in the clean and jerk session, twice beating marks of 218kg and 224kg by Liti, as well as a lift of 223kg by Gurdeep, by lifting 225kg in his first attempt and then a massive 232kg to finish with a total of 405kg. He bettered the record of 403kg set by Liti on the way to gold four years ago.

Hours earlier, judoka Shah Hussain had gotten Pakistan off the mark on the medals table when he won bronze in the men’s -90kg category at the Coventry Stadium.

The 29-year-old Shah Hussain, the son of Pakistan’s legendary boxer Hussain Shah, overwhelmed South African Thomas-Laszlo Breyytenbach by ippon — the highest score a fighter can achieve — in their bronze medal bout.

Another gold in sight as wrestler Muhammad Sharif Tahir reaches final of 74kg freestyle wrestling at CWG 2022

He will face India's Naveen Naveen in the gold medal match today.

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