Koni To Train Reserve Athletes

JAKARTA, Jan 3 (Antara) - The National Sports Committee (KONI) will provide reserve athletes to support the "elite" athletes who are being trained by the Indonesian Golden Program Implementing Unit (Prima), an official has said. "Central Executive Board of KONI is ready to support the Indonesian Golden Program Implementing Unit in preparing the reserve athletes whose quality is not much different from the athletes who are being trained by the Indonesian Golden Program Implementing Unit," Hamidy, secretary to Central Executive Board of KONI, said here on Monday. According to him, Prima takes the best athletes ranked one and two from the National Sports Week (PON) while KONI will train athletes from ranked three to five for all sports. "Thus, the reserve athletes are always ready to compete," he explained, adding that this was being done to maximize Indonesia's success in the Southeast Asian Games 2017 in Malaysia and the Asian Games 2018 in Indonesia.