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World champion Saeed Aouita: The industry of the Olympic champion in athletics is based on technical planning

2020-08-29T10:16:25.577Z


Damascus-SANA The General Secretariat of the Arab Federation for Sports Press held a video conference via the Internet via a distance


Damascus-Sana

The General Secretariat of the Arab Union for Sports Press held a video conference remotely via the Internet, in which the World Power Games legend, Moroccan runner Said Aouita, hosted with the participation of media professionals from most Arab countries, including Syria.

Badr Al-Din Al-Idrisi, Vice President of the Arab Federation, described Aouita as the great athlete that every lover of achievement knows as one of the legends of world athletics and record-breaking, who was called the human locomotive after the resounding global achievements he achieved in the Olympic and World Athletics Championships.

Aouita reviewed his career with the sport of the mother of games and the story of his struggle and reaching the highest levels of glory when he first won the bronze in the 1500 meters at the World Championships in Helsinki in 1983, then the gold in the 5000 meters in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the gold in the 1500 meters, smashing the world record in the championship The world in Germany in 1984 and the gold medal in the 5000 meters in the 1987 World Championships in Rome and the bronze in the 800 meters in the 1988 Seoul Olympics, in addition to many championships, titles and achievements.

Aweita explained that the industry of the Olympic champion needs a working strategy based on technical planning from the game federation, who must nurture talent, refine it, take care of it and plan it by a professional technical director and subject him to continuous camps, and then throw him into tournaments to reap the fruit of this effort by crowning one of the Olympic medals or in The World Championship, pointing out that achieving achievement requires money, but the most important thing is will, high morale and determination.

The world champion revealed that the existence of academies specialized in athletics is very important in discovering talents and nurturing them from a young age and allocating them with a type of races commensurate with talent in terms of physical structure, and then the construction process takes place from four to six years under the supervision of high-level coaches to pick fruits later in achieving achievements Locally and internationally.

Aweita pointed out that doping is the athlete's first enemy, as they will not help him, but rather contribute to destroying him like Corona, indicating that training and perseverance on him is the basis for building the athlete in addition to the psychological factor so that the athlete is mentally prepared and focused on his race before every championship or merit.

Aouita noted the great role that sports media plays in shedding light on athletes and their achievements, pointing out that the media is not only a partner with sports, but rather is a basis for it because sport without media is deficient even if a great achievement occurs.

Aouita was born in 1959 in the Moroccan city of Kenitra and was able to break world records for the 1500-meter races 3.39.46 minutes in 1985 and 2000 meters 4.50.81 minutes in 1987 and three thousand meters 7.29.45 minutes in 1989 and five thousand meters 13.00.40 minutes in 1985 and 12.58.39 minutes in 1987 and he supervised the training of runners. In Morocco and Australia, he is also a sports analyst for sports channels.

Muhammad Al-Khater

Source: sena

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