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Kathmandu Thursday May 31, 2001 Jestha 18, 2058.
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National Sports to kick off
June 3rd
Purushottam Kattel
KATHMANDU, May 30 - The 5th National Sports is
on the verge to kick off, from May 27 to June 01, 2001. Every person allied to the sports
of Nepal are being full of activities for their groundwork to muddle through the carnival
which will provide a chance to them to embody Nepal in the international horizon. The 5th
national sport is being viewed as a raised area of the Nepali National Team for the
upcoming 9th SAF. Nepal has a great challenge to maintain its position of the 8th SAF, in
which, Nepal leapfrogs to second position.
National Sports went through several upheavals
from the commencement in 1982. The actual period of the Championship had been scheduled in
two years gap but only five are being carried out in the 20 years’ history. Due to
the political instability and governments least priority, National sports suffered a snail
pace maturity. The first, second and third National Sports were held in 1982, 1984 and
1986 respectively, all before the democracy, in which the participants were of 14 teams
from the same number of zones. After anguishing 14 years of interruption, the 4th National
Sports was organized and participated with great enthusiasms in the year 1999 at Mahendra
Stadium, Nepalgunj.
There is a grand divergence between the three
Championships prior to the democracy and after. In the three incessantly held
Championship, 14 teams took part from the 14 zones while last one after the democracy was
participated by 7 teams from five regional development areas and Police’s Team plus
Armies’ Team. There appeared some countable pros and cons when the national selection
process changed from zonal to regional level. The audience participated least numbers
since the matches observed in regional level. There came out lack of team spirit within
the team itself. On the other, new faces could get a chance to show their skills and
talents, as they were nominated form the district level in first phase.
In the fifth National Sports, the total of 1425
players of seven teams will compete for 741 totalities of medals. Though the medals
numbers are increasing, the insertion of the events are in decreasing rate in the 4th and
5th National Sports in comparison with the preceding Championships. Both National Sports
of post democracy period are taken into consideration for the preparations in SAF and the
events included also reckon with the numbers of matches that included in SAF. It is the
4th National Sports that played a vital hand to Nepal to come across with second place.
The timing of 5th National Sports is also just what the doctor ordered, that provide
players to warm-up for the approaching 9th SAF scheduled to play in Pakistan.
It is the great festival for the personalities
and lovers of sports of the nation. Now, it is proper occasion for the officials, players,
coaches, socialist, government and media persons to play a key role to carry out the event
in magnificent manner. The preferred players will carry the national flag in the
international venture, which will determine the position of sports plus the craze of the
people on sporting events of this Himalayan Kingdom.
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