Why are Pakistani boxers unable to participate in the Olympics?

Continued in France Paris Olympics Games 2024 Only seven athletes from Pakistan are participating, including two athletes, two swimmers and three shooters, but not a single boxer, and boxing insiders attribute this to a lack of facilities.

Coaching for the last 26 years in Fakir Colony of Orangi Town, Karachi Boxing Coach Fida Hussain says that boxing is a poor man’s sport and due to lack of facilities for this sport, lack of national level training camp, lack of training for boxers and lack of dietician or nutritionist for the required diet, Pakistani boxers are unable to participate in the Olympics. Unable to participate.

Speaking to Independent Urdu, Fida Hussain said: ‘I started boxing in 1989. Became a departmental player in 1986. At that time I used to play boxing on behalf of Sindh Government Press. Played boxing at national level till 1998. Later started coaching boxing.

‘I coached boxing for 26 years. Even after so many years of coaching, I feel sad that not even one of my boxers could reach the Olympics.’

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Fida Hussain said that in the past, public and private institutions used to support boxers by paying salaries and they used to play peacefully free from financial problems. At that time, Pakistan used to get boxers of Olympic level, but during the regime of former military dictator Pervez Musharraf, public and private institutions stopped the economic support of boxers.

According to Fida Hussain: ‘At that time, national level training camps were held in Pakistan, in which expert coaches would come and train. Boxers used to be taken to cold countries including Azerbaijan and Russia to compete with the players there, but later the support of the institutions stopped after the training camp ended.

He added: ‘Boxing is a poor man’s sport. Now if a young man wants to do boxing, he has to work all day for employment. After evening he comes and practices.

“Furthermore, there is no dietitian or nutritionist to give information about the required diet to the boxer, who can tell what kind of food to eat in what quantity.” There is a new technique in boxing at the world level, which no one is teaching the boxers of Pakistan.

That’s why no boxer from Pakistan is ready for Olympics games. If all these facilities are given, Pakistani boxers can also be ready for the Olympics.