Birmingham (WAM)
Athletes and players of the national jiu-jitsu team have successfully passed the official weighing procedure, which was conducted in the indoor hall of Birmingham Southern College, which hosts the jiu-jitsu competitions at the World Games.
The procedures were supervised by the international arbitration team nominated by the International Federation of the Game and consisting of 12 referees, headed by Alessandro Nascimento.
With this step, the participation of Balqis Abdullah was confirmed at 48 kg, Shamma Al-Kalbani at 63 kg, Muhammad Al-Suwaidi at 69 kg, Muhammad Al-Omari at 77 kg, and Faisal Al-Ketbi at 85 kg.
Engineer Azza bint Sulaiman, Assistant Secretary-General for Administrative and Financial Affairs, at the National Olympic Committee, head of the UAE delegation participating in the session, was keen to attend part of the weighing procedures, and Fahd Ali Al Shamsi, Secretary-General of the UAE and Asian Federations, was keen to attend, along with Tariq Al-Bahri, General Manager Abu Dhabi Professional Jiu-Jitsu Association, and Mubarak Al Menhali, Director of the Technical Department of the Jiu-Jitsu Federation.
Fahd Ali Al Shamsi confirmed that the team is determined to leave a strong imprint in its participation in the tournament, by achieving the achievement of ascending to the podium, and winning the largest possible number of medals, knowing that the competition will not be easy, in light of the strength of competitors in each category.
He said: The camp for the preparation of the team, which lasted for a month in California, was exploited in the best way in raising the technical and physical efficiency of the players, and succeeded in introducing the team to the atmosphere of the competitions. The game provides the best opportunities and programs for the preparation and participation of its players, and gives them the necessary experience and sufficient confidence, to confront the strongest competitors, and it is natural in the work system of the Federation that Abdel Moneim Al Hashemi, President of the UAE and Asian Federations, First Vice President of the International Federation, is not satisfied with contacting the mission and following up on its conditions on a daily basis, but rather speaks With the players to encourage them, follow the details of their fights, and get to know their competitors.
He said: The UAE Ju-Jitsu team participates for the second time in that tournament, as it previously participated in the last edition in Poland in 2017, and our world champion Faisal Al Ketbi achieved gold and silver in his weight and open weight, and this is the best achievement for any Emirati game in this session, and we hope to achieve More in the first day competitions.
For his part, Brazilian coach Ramon Lemos, coach of our national team, confirmed that the players and players are fully prepared, that the preliminary round draw was conducted, the competitors were identified, and that the preparation program reached its highest technical and physical levels, noting that he studied the competitors well with the players and players, and demanded that everyone Focusing on all fights, and that he is fully confident in the players’ abilities to offer everything they have on the rug, in order to translate their great efforts in preparation into achievements and medals that take them to the podiums, and raise their country’s flag in this great international forum.
The male and female players were distributed into two groups in the preliminary round, so that each group includes 3 players who play in the league system with two fights for each player, so that the first and second of each group advance to the semi-finals, where the first group of the first meets the second of the second and vice versa at the level of men and women.
The winners of the semi-finals advance to the final, and the losers play for the third and fourth places.
For her part, the player Balqis Abdul Karim confirmed that she is ready to compete, and is proud to represent her country in this great global forum, and that she was impatiently waiting for the moment the competitions started to translate her efforts in the long preparation stages into victories and achievements on the competition mat.
In the same context, her colleague Shamma Al-Kalbani, who is also participating for the first time in this forum, confirmed that she came to Birmingham to compete for gold, and that she had great confidence in herself and in her long preparation programs under the supervision of her coach, Poliano Lago, and that winning the Asian gold in Bahrain after all the fights that ended in surrender. The competitions in the first minute gave her a great morale boost to continue her achievements.
The referees committee for the tournament held a workshop, where Alessandro Nascimento explained the latest developments in the law of the game, and emphasized the unification of decisions in similar cases, with obligating the rugby referee to return to the video assistant referee to guide his opinion in the difficult arbitration cases that require this, and each fight will be led by a rug referee and two assistants. Two for the video on the table.
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