International Student Sports Carnival
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This event was organized by the sports and recreation center courtesy of Mr Azman Ishak. This event took place for seven days from the 20^th of October to the 27^th of October. This activity took place in Uniten (Universiti Tenaga Nasional) in Putrajaya. This activity gathered hundreds of students from various Universities to come together to compete for gold. It was a really good experience for all of us and a time of enjoyment. So many things happened during that short period of time that changed my mentality and Ideals.

On the 15^th of October the day shone bright as the AiU athletes were boarding the bus to head to their destination Putrajaya. After an eight hour drive from AiU to Uniten we reached our destination. The environment of Uniten consisted of several students from all walks of Malaysia who had come to compete with other teams for the chance to get gold medals for their universities. The activities ranged from football, basketball, badminton, indoor rowing, netball, volleyball and road relay. Our university had only registered for six out of seven of the events. The volleyball team felt that they weren’t ready to represent the university in a competition just yet. I was chosen to compete in the road relay competition which was set to commence towards the last of the seven days.

The first few days of the competition were blank days as they dealt with volleyball and badminton. The AiU badminton team didn’t do too good against its opponents at this level, having lost all its matches. The following day marked the first match for indoor rowing. This was a very heated competition as it brought together the strongest of the strong from each university to compete in the speed rowing competition. The next few days dealt with several matches for football, basketball, netball and badminton. The teams did fairly well and proceeded forward except for the badminton team who couldn’t proceed, as they were lacking behind due to their loses.

After a series of competition which brought the football and netball teams to the final it finally came the road relay team’s day. The team was scheduled to run at 10 in the morning for 3 km and pass the baton from teammate to teammate. Our team was amped up against the best runners that all the other universities had to bring. Before we ran we started feeling taunted by the size and athleticism that the other universities had displayed upon us. Until the point even one of my teammates had vomited just before the race. Toward the beginning of the race we had no hope or faith in our team’s ability to seal gold or even silver. But towards the beginning luck came to our side. While starting fourth we managed to keep up and boost ourselves to second and finish in second position in the end.

This was a very big achievement for AiU as this is the first time that we competed in any competition and did our best to achieve the best of our position. To make matters better our female road relay team finished with gold. Overall both teams did exceptionally well and displayed distinct athleticism to achieve one gold and one silver medal.

At the end of the tournament all the teams came back to the buses and we took a tour around Putrajaya and we went sight-seeing in the different sectors of Putrajaya before another 8 hour drive back to AiU.