Judoka Shah Hussain to be Pakistan's banner conveyor at Rio Olympics

Judoka Shah Hussain to be Pakistan's banner conveyor at Rio Olympics

KARACHI: Judoka Shah Hussain will be Pakistan's banner conveyor at the Rio Olympics, commencing in Rio De Janeiro from August 5, Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) Director Akhtar Ganjera told DawnNews on Wednesday. 

Generally, the commander of the Pakistan Hockey Team used to lift the national banner at the Games. The Hockey group's inability to meet all requirements for Rio settled on the PSB delay the choice before it at long last picked Shah to do the banner bearing respects. 

Hussain is the child of the decoration winning pugilist Hussain Shah and is the main competitor who fixed a spot at the pined for multi-sports occasion under mainland standard. 

Hussain likewise won a gold in South Asian Games held in Shillong, India, in February this year. 

In Rio, Hussain, who is situated in Japan, will anticipate imitate his dad Hussain Shah's accomplishments who had won the bronze decoration at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea. 

It is the first run through Pakistan's national hockey group won't highlight in the uber occasion. 

The majority of alternate competitors, as well, for the quadrennial sports exhibition got passage through trump card or mainland quantity framework. 

Not even a solitary boxer could meet all requirements for the Olympics albeit one of Pakistan's two non-hockey awards came through boxer Hussain Shah's prosperity. 

The competitors to contribute the Olympics incorporate swimmers Lianna Swan and Haris Bandey who are based abroad and shooters Ghulam Mustafa and Minhal Sohail and two sprinters. 

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) permits national Olympic advisory groups of different nations with few or with no competitors to take an interest in the pined for games occasions by offering special cases to their competitors. 

A player or a group that has not qualified through the ordinary focused channel gets a special case passage. In Olympics as well, special cases are offered to nations, whose competitors neglect to meet the capability norms.