Swimming Laila Al-Khatib ... a promising Emirati experience towards achieving an Olympic achievement in Paris 2024
25 Aug 2020

Swimming Laila Al-Khatib ... a promising Emirati experience towards achieving an Olympic achievement in Paris 2024

Leila Al-Khatib is a real project for a promising Olympic champion, who proved her presence strongly in the first Arab appearance in Morocco when she won 3 gold and one silver medal in 2018, and although she participated in some races with older players, she drew attention to her and was the talk of the championship, where She led the UAE girls' team to win third place at the collective level in that tournament, in light of the first participation of Emirati girls in an Arab championship of this size, where the competition was most intense with ancient countries in the game, and as of last week, Laila Al-Khatib entered a new phase of challenge when she traveled To Britain, to join one of the academies prepared to study and practice swimming together, with the great support of the family and the game union, which fully supervises its preparation programs, through a comprehensive visualization of the preparation camps and tournaments in which it will participate annually, and the number of weekly training units, with careful follow-up of the numbers that Check them periodically with the aim of measuring the rates of development, and comparing them with international figures that must be achieved with the passage of time. And about this promising project and that pioneering experience that foresees the future ... Jumah Al-Balushi, Vice President of the Swimming Federation and Chairman of the Teams Committee, stressed that the federation is determined to provide all kinds of support for the project of the promising heroine, Layla, and that he considers with great appreciation the role of her family, who spares no effort or costs to support the career of the promising heroine, and includes the project of preparing Layla approved by the Federation 9 Participation in foreign tournaments every year, and that their current rate in training units is 9 weekly training units, and they were under the eyes of the federation and within the national team for 3 years when they were 12 years old. Al Balushi said in his statements to the Emirates News Agency "WAM": "After a year One of her joining the team, Leila achieved her achievement in the Arab Championship in Morocco, and she was supposed to travel to Thailand to undergo the Olympic test in the past months, but the global health exhibitor prevented that, and there is constant communication between the union and Leila's family, whether before or after their travel to London. Travel, and we welcome the provision of support for Leila, whether in training programs or in studying at the academy to which she belongs, and Laila will also benefit from her presence under the umbrella of the gifted sponsorship project at the Public Authority for Sports. ”And the role of the Union with the promising heroine B Counting travel, Al-Balushi says: “Leila will implement the technical program specified for her by the federation, in coordination and cooperation between the coach of the national team, Captain Ali Diab, and her trainer at the London Academy. She will participate in the tournaments that we have set for her and are approved in the preparation program until the Paris Olympiad 2024, and the country will be represented in 9 international tournaments. Foreign and two local championships annually, the Emirates Cup and Dubai International, and will also join the national team in foreign camps, especially during the summer and school holidays. ”And about the program of preparing the national team to participate in the Asian Beach Games, which was scheduled to be held next November in China and was postponed to April 2021 Jumah Al-Balushi explained: “We are currently reviewing the preparation program in light of the new amendments to the date of the tournament, and we will raise the amended program to the Federation’s Board of Directors next week, and it is scheduled that we will participate in the tournament with 3 swimmers: Farouk Ismail, Omar Al Hammadi and Hamdan Al Balushi, in addition to the two sisters Maha and Maharah Al-Shehhi, and this will be the first participation of girls in the UAE in open water at the Asian level, and the players are currently undergoing training in Their clubs are Al-Nasr, Al-Wasl and Al-Ain, in coordination with the coach of the national team, who visits male and female players during their training.