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!
Again, looking at the comments, I wonder when the results of the Pakistan blog awards will be announced. If you have not, this post should give you reason to vote for ATP in the blog awards and also leave a comment there for the judges:
http://blogawards.pk/2010/01/06/current-affairs-bl og-pakistaniat/
vamos PPPPPAAAAAKKKIIIISSTTTAAN
Kudos for ATP
It is Friday morning the 26th February. I have seen the First time a Pakistani TV channel – GEO – covering Abbas’s heroics in the Winter Olympics. ATP covered it 4 days ago.
Pakistaniat indeed sets the trend.
If the positive happenings in the country can be given a lot of publicity it will definetly bring a change in the mindset. I still wonder why are these things not shown on television all the time and why are we always shown bloodshed and other negative things in the country. Pakistan is not just a country filled with ignorant Talibans and the world has a right to know this FACT!!
Refreshing to see someone playing a sport other than cricket.