None of Pakistani athletes have qualified for the Rio Olympics. While the country had once produced world class hockey and squash players.While cricket remains a widely popular game in Pakistan, a country of almost 200 million people, most other sports have shrunk in popularity as the successes of the 1980s and early 1990s have become a distant memory.Female athletes have an even bigger mountain to climb as most young girls in the deeply conservative Muslim nation are pressurised by their families to stop exercising in public, while those with family backing face the wrath of their communities.According to the Pakistan Olympic Association president Arif Hasan, the seven participants due to represent Pakistan at next month's Rio Olympics have all been given wildcard entries and stand "no chance" of winning medals.
News On AIR | July 15, 2016 9:24 PM
No Pakistani athlete qualifies for Rio Olympics