Azizul Hasni dengan trade mark Wheelie beliau sehingga menjulang nama negara Malaysia ke peringkat Dunia. Aksi beliau juga menjadi kebanggaan seluruh dunia dan tiada isu aksi ini di luar negara serta Undang-undang UCI. Aksi ini, telah menjadi bualan dan tanda tanya di manakah fakta wheelie/show-off ini oleh president komisar negara Malaysia. Sehingga kini, soalan ini tidak dapat di jawab oleh pihak yang bertanggungjawab mengenai kesalahan yang di lakukan oleh Hariff Saleh Langkawi Criterium.
Arnaz M. Khairul
arnaz@nst.com.my
WOULD you make an effort to go out and watch a sport, held in scorching heat, merely for its outcome?
Wouldn't you rather watch cyclists going all out, using every trick in the book to win races, entertaining you with daredevil feats in the process?
Kelihatan pelumba negara Malaysia Hariff Saleh dan pelumba Navy Zamri Saleh semasa Langkawi Criterium baru-baru ini. Aksinya, mendapat bantahan oleh pihak komisar yang bertugas ketika itu.
Well, national cyclist Harrif Salleh almost ended up losing his spot on the podium in the Langkawi Criterium last Sunday for what seemed a harmless wheelie (raising of the front wheel) as he sprinted side-by-side with elder brother Zamri on the fourth intermediate sprint of that race.
Harrif took the top points in that sprint, but learned during the race that he had been relegated for dangerous conduct by the panel of commissaires.
That disrupted 22-year-old Harrif's momentum and he rode a fairly docile completion of the 80km race. Protests led to delayed results at the end of the race but eventually the points were reinstated.
This is the latest example of Malaysian National Cycling Federation (MNCF) commissaires having a say in the outcome of a race.
We've seen in local races riders being penalised and stripped of victories for raising their arms they crossed the finish line.
We've seen a more blatant display of what some alleged as strategic penalisation, by the same commissaire who officiated the Langkawi Criterium in last year's Jelajah Malaysia when LeTua Cycling Team's Samai Amari was relegated after winning an intermediate sprint, supposedly for dangerous sprinting.
The main beneficiary of that penalisation would have been Anuar Manan, who would have had his points classification lead under severe threat by Samai had the result stood.
Anuar Manan(kanan sekali) bersaing semasa melakukan Intermediate Sprint. Kelihatan tayar beliau sedikit terangkat dan juga pesaing beliau dengan kelihatan "wheelie" atau "show-off".
The commissaire who judged that sprint was adamant that Samai had caused danger. The LeTua team were asked to produce video evidence to back their claims that Samai had done no wrong.
Their stars were shining when some members of the electronic media who shot the sprint provided footage that showed Samai clearly sprinting on the outside without any danger to five other riders contesting the sprint.
But video evidence or anything as substantial is often unavailable for local cycling teams.
Harrif's innocence in his bit of showmanship was simply backed by questions of whether there was any article of the International Cycling Union (UCI) regulations that stated wheelies were illegal.
Luckily for Harrif, there was no specific article that states so.
Commissaires often go unchallenged in determining the finalised result of a race, which is now in question.
This has, indirectly had an effect on the psyche of cyclists coming through the development ranks. Most of those in the senior ranks, merely accept decisions, stating that they cannot challenge decisions by the panel of commissaires.
But when there are too many instances of these sorts of decisions, which affect the outcome of a race, we should be questioning the MNCF's level of education and training of the commissaires licensed by them.
Kami memerlukan fakta yang tepat untuk di apply kepada generasi yang akan datang bagi kesalahan/kebenaran yang di benarkan oleh undang-undang UCI.
It has an effect on the morale of young cyclists and builds into them a needless fear of authority. They fear using all the tricks in the book to go all out for victory, because they are uncertain whether they would be penalised for it.
The time has come for the MNCF technical and competitions committee to have a rethink of their commissaire courses, because the number of erratic judgements, be it on purpose or not, is alarming.
It has come to a rate where cyclists fear becoming riders who excite spectators simply because they fear, such as in the case of Harrif, punishment for what certain commissaires regard as showmanship.
Showmanship is not wrong under any regulations, unless the MNCF itself decides so. That decision, given the rate of spectator support for local races, would be uncalled for.
But if the commissaires are so adamant on making safe races, they should also not contradict the concept of their judgements by allowing organisers, such as the case of Langkawi Criterium, to do without safety barricades at start and finish areas.
That compromises their position as officials who bide by the regulations. Because safety barricades are stipulated as a must under UCI regulations.
So, we're left with a situiation where there are riders who break rules that aren't in the book and officials who fail to run races by the book.
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