BANGKOK: Thai athletes will be bidding to burnish the kingdom’s reputation with more medals when the 2024 Games kicks off next week Thailand has won 35 Olympic medals – 10 gold, 8 silver and 17 bronze – since debuting at the 1952 Helsinki Games. The first medal came 24 years later when boxer Payao Poontarat stepped onto...
PETALING JAYA: The Regent of Johor Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim hopes Kim Pan-gon can clarify what he meant when he said it was dangerous to explain the reason behind his resignation as Harimau Malaya head coach. Pan-gon announced his resignation as the national team coach due to personal commitments in a press conference on Tuesday. Tunku Ismail...
PETALING JAYA: Danish No. 1 mixed doubles pairing of Mathias Christiansen and Alexandra Boje will not be competing when the Olympic badminton tournament kicks off in Paris next week. Christiansen has decided to withdraw from the badminton mixed doubles event at the Paris Olympics after he unintentionally made mistakes in three of his 'whereabouts' filing and...
PETALING JAYA: Former great Datuk Rashid Sidek says it is anyone’s game in the men’s singles at the Olympic Games in Paris although a few of them have been more dominant than the others. Defending champion Viktor Axelsen of Denmark was unbeatable at one stage of his life while China’s Shi Yuqi has grown to be...
PETALING JAYA: National men’s doubles pair Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik have been handed a tricky draw for the Paris Olympics. The world No. 5 pair former world champions have been drawn in Group A with top seeds Liang Weikeng-Wang Chang of China, England’s Ben Lane-Sean Vendy and Canada’s Adam Dong-Nyl Yakura in the badminton competition from...
KUALA LUMPUR: Football fever is at its peak here as it is in Berlin, where the Euro 2024 final will be staged. The countdown to the exciting final pitting England against Spain has begun, with fans looking for spots to catch the live broadcast of the match which will be played at the Olympiastadion in the...
PETALING JAYA: Men's singles shuttler Lee Zii Jia will probably face Indonesia's world No. 9 Anthony Ginting in a mouthwatering last 16 clash in the Paris Olympic Games. The badminton competition is from July 27-Aug 5 at the Adidas Arena in Porte de la Chapelle. In the draw released on Friday (July 12), Zii Jia was placed...
PETALING JAYA: After an epic duel with Germany which they won in extra time, Spain remain the only team to have won all their five games in the tournament. Meanwhile, Les Bleus are having the blues, having not scored a single goal in open play. Even then, French Totem Kylian Mbappe will remian a red flag to...
PETALING JAYA: Negri Sembilan striker Mika Junco has become the latest addition in a list of unfortunate incidents of crimes against footballers after the Spanish player was robbed by snatch thieves on Sunday. According to Junco’s social media post on Sunday night, he said he had lost a gold chain to snatch thieves on a motorcycle...
PETALING JAYA: It was a sad start to the week for the badminton fraternity as promising China shuttler Zhang Zhijie collapsed on the court during a mixed team match at the Asian Junior Championships in Yogyakarta and passed away on Sunday (June 30). Badminton Asia said in a statement released on Monday that the tragic incident...
