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!
Well done Abbass. Keep the Pakistani flag flying high. We are proud of you.
Very nice post and great pictures.
Another Brave Pakistan, knocking all odds and reaching a Higher Ground!!!
Good Luck Next Time Abbas.
Be a Brave Pakistani and participate in upcoming events with more Zeal & Zest.
Video interview at BBC Urdu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWZorkYTA20
Mashallah…..it is heart warming to see Naseem Hameed and Mohammad Abbas rise and shine and bring happiness to Pakistan!
Well done Abbas.
And thank you ATP for highlighting this so excellently. We need national heroes and need to take pride in Pakistanis who excel.