Afghan women's volleyball team, who had difficulty participating, said, "I want to train on the court"
According to major foreign media such as Reuters and Inside the Games on the 26th, Kusal Malakzai, the head coach of the Afghan…General Manager Malakzai said, "We have to train with the ball. We have all the training facilities, so I don't know why we can only train for 1-2 hours each. If we can't train on the court, it's like starting from zero." did. “We were only allocated one training session two days before the first match,” added Malakzai.
According to Reuters, the Afghanistan women's volleyball team is only conducting fitness training in gym facilities.
The Asian Games organizing committee said that it was not only Afghanistan that was being treated unfairly, but also that designated facilities were not available until Thursday (28th). “All countries will be treated equally,” the organizing committee explained to Reuters.
Women's sports in Afghanistan are assessed to have significantly collapsed since the Taliban came back to power in 2021. 토토 This is because many female athletes fled abroad to avoid persecution.
In this Asian Games, Afghanistan dispatched 130 male athletes. 17 female athletes, including volleyball and cyclists, participated from exile with support from the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Meanwhile, Afghan female track and field athlete Kimia Yousofi also requested additional support from IOC President Thomas Bach. “The people of Afghanistan need your help,” she appealed, adding that she “does not want to go back to the way things were.”
Although Bach responded to this request, foreign media believed that it would be difficult for Bach to make promises regarding the political situation. “We agree to ensure that women and girls in Afghanistan can fully participate in sport and life,” Bach said.
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