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Director of Institute of Teachers Education Tun Abdul Razak Campus, Hamsiah Abdullah Masni (front, fifth right) posing with the participants of the 5th International Seminar on Sports & Exercise Psychology 2018 during the closing ceremony at Grand Margherita Hotel, Kuching. PHOTO: AHMAD ISKANDAR
Director of Institute of Teachers Education Tun Abdul Razak Campus, Hamsiah Abdullah Masni (front, fifth right) posing with the participants of the 5th International Seminar on Sports & Exercise Psychology 2018 during the closing ceremony at Grand Margherita Hotel, Kuching. PHOTO: AHMAD ISKANDAR

KUCHING: Sports coaches have been challenged to become more realistic and to adapt their old ways to bring new elements into their coaching routines.

Assistant Minister of Youth and Sports, Datuk Snowdan Lawan noted that it was interesting to see some of the sports competed in SUKMA continued to show very poor results even after a lot of money had been pumped into buying the latest equipment and setting up the best facilities.

“Perhaps we should look at the human resources and see if there should be new elements that can be introduced so that these sports will start to produce,” he emphasized in his speech at the closing of the 5th International Seminar on Sports & Exercise Psychology 2018 held at the Grand Margherita Hotel here yesterday.

The text of his speech was read by Hamsiah Abdullah Masni, Co-Chairperson of the 5th International Seminar on Sports & Exercise Psychology Committee and Director of Institute of Teachers Education Tun Abdul Razak Campus, Kota Samarahan.

In the midst of preparing for the 2018 SUKMA in Perak, he stressed that he would like to see much of what had been learnt during the seminar to be used to help athletes maintain or improve on their achievements in the last games.

He pointed out that there should also be a concerted effort by sports associations, together with the Sarawak Sports Corporation, Sarawak Sports Council, National Sports Institute Satellite Centre Sarawak and Institute of Higher Learning to work together to identify the problems in various sports.

He suggested that the contents of the seminar could be provided  to the universities and colleges so that they could use them as research problems that would need to be looked into. Findings based on these research would be very useful to the coaches and athletes as it would be directly related to their situation.

Snowdan concluded that close working relationships between sports agencies and institutions of higher learning should not be limited to when they wanted to organize seminars and conferences, but extended into the actual operation and running of sports, only then would they be able to achieve greater sporting success and become true sports powerhouse.

The 5th International Seminar on Sports & Exercise Psychology 2018 was attended by 230 participants from South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand and Malaysia. Three keynotes, 32 papers were presented by 15 invited speakers.

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