Adil Najam
Muhammad Abbas made Pakistan’s Winter Olympics debut today.
We already have a post on Abbas’s remarkable trip from learning skiing on home-made planks in Pakistan’s Northern Areas to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, but these Associated Press pictures from his run today are quite stunning and we thought they deserve a separate post.
The event was Alpine Skiing – Men’s Giant Slalom. I have only now learnt that Giant Slalom is a type of alpine skiing where the skier has to ski between sets of between 56 to 70 poles or gates. From what I can understand of the results, of the 81 who finished, Mohammad Abbas was at number 79 with a time of 3:20.58; trailing behind him were Marino Cardelli of San Marino and Jamyang Namgial of India. Gold was taken by Swiss skier Carlo Janka with a time of 2:37.83, Silver by Norwevian Kjetil Jansrud and Bronze by Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal.
It is not often that one sees such spectacular snow action pictures of a Pakistani skier, so enjoy!
very nice…. but no sponsors? not even PIA :(
Beautiful images ! Kindly, give credit to the photographer whose images have been displayed here.
well done Abbas bhai, you have made your people proud :) (Takbeer) (Pakistan Zinda’abad)
Excellent pictures and well captured. I hope in the future more and more people from Pakistan will be encouraged to participate in the winter Olympics.
Well done Mohammed Abbas, keep it up.
Khadim
Wonderful photos adil. Excellent job. Peeople like NAseem hamir and abbas prove that our country is not just militancy and extremism but there is loads of talent present in this country which sadly does not get a chance to be exposed. This is the message that we all should send the rest of the world. Best of luck Abbas. I pray you make Pakistan proud.