Cycling, athletics & other games be promoted like cricket, demanded PCF
Peshawar , Pakistan Cycling Federation (PCF) President
Syed Zahir Ali has demanded of the government to promote cycling, athletics and
other games like cricket.
He was talking to media persons here in Peshawar on Saturday,
he said that despite best performance of Pakistani cyclists at international
level, grants of Rs1.8millions are closed for last two years while the only the
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government was supervising the concerned game.
He informed that the first one cycling velodrome in
the country had been established in Lahore while the second in Baluchistan
while the third one is being constructed in Peshawar, which would help the
grooming players to promote their cycling game.
The president lamented that due to covid-19, the
calendar of cycling events affected but Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
were prepared for holding cycling events while the same SOPs the PCF has sent
the federal minister inter provincial Fahmida Mirza.
He expressed the hope that permission would be given
to PCF after that a schedule for cycling events would be taken place throughout
the country.
About cycling event is going to be held in
Switzerland, Mr Shah informed that trials of national cyclists would be taken
at two phases, one of them in Karachi wherein cyclists from Sindh and
Baluchistan while the second phase would be held in Islamabad and cyclists from
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab would participate, and after trials, the selected
cyclists would be given further training in Karachi for international event.
Responding to a query, he said that Cycling was more
tough game than others as rate of one cycle is more than Rs0.5million while poor
cyclist player could not afford, therefore, the PCF and provincial associations
often keep demanding of governments to provide them.
He appreciated the KP government for supervising the
KP association in provision of grants and that’s the reason, the provincial
players had expensive and standard cycles, who he lauded were giving
performance at national and international level.
He said that there were best male and female
cyclists in KP, Sindh and Baluchistan as compared to Punjab, so, PCF by the
help of Director coaching Lahore Rana, a velodrome was established in the city
so that new talent come forward in this game.
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