Failure Of 3 Taekwondo Athletes To Qualify For Tokyo Olympics Proves Indonesia Did Not Learn From All England Case

JAKARTA - It remains in the memory of how the Indonesian badminton team was forced to withdraw from the All England championship in Birmingham on March 17-21. This event should serve as a lesson for all sports, not least taekwondo.

Three Indonesian taekwondo athletes failed to qualify for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics in Amman, Jordan on May 21-23. An event that is very detrimental to the world of national sport.

Mariska Halinda, M Bassa Raihan, and Adam Yazid failed to fight due to technical difficulties during registration. Previously, they had undergone training centers in South Korea.

Quoting the tweet of senior sports journalist Ainur Rohman, the Indonesian Taekwondo Executive Board (PBTI) was supposed to register online, but the administrator instead listed the manual so that our athletes failed to compete in the Olympics. How could you?

When the Indonesian badminton team was forced to withdraw from the prestigious All England tournament, sports practitioner Hifni Hasan saw the case as a lesson for the Red and White contingent at the international championships.

"The case of the withdrawal of the Indonesian badminton team from the All England became an important lesson and even a warning of danger or alarm for the Indonesian Contingent at the Tokyo Olympics later", Hifni reported from Antara.

Hifni continued, the parent organization of the sport that will fight and has qualified for the Olympics, KOI, and even the government in this case the Ministry of Youth and Sports needs to be early and seriously and thoroughly aware of the rules in force.

This rule is certainly not only related to the implementation of handling COVID-19, but also the procedures and regulations for the registration of qualified participants.

However, again, we still have to keep learning. As revealed by the Secretary of the Ministry of Youth and Sports Gatot S. Dewa Broto. The failure of Indonesian taekwondo athletes to qualify in Amman should be a lesson for all sports.

"If you want to participate in international events, including the Olympics, please be sure, studied the regulations, then the communication must be ensured smoothly", said Gatot, reported VOI from Metro TV News.

VOI has tried to contact PBTI to inquire about the incident. However, until this news was revealed there had been no response from PBTI.

Mariska Halinda was supposed to drop in the women's -49 kilogram (kg) class, M Bassam Raihan in the men's -58 kg class, and Adam Yazid in the men's -68 kg class. Of these three names, Mariska is the most likely to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Since taekwondo was competed in 1992 (exhibition), Indonesian athletes have only competed at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2004 Athens Olympics. Now, when the opportunity exists, it is even released due to mistakes that can be said to be ridiculous.