Subscribe to our channel for the latest stories and updates. National athlete Pandelela Rinong was recently put on the spot after Sarawak’s State Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said that she shouldn’t be awarded a Datukship because ‘too much rewards will spoil atheles’. This is a rather baffling statement considering our other great national athletes like Datuk Nicol David and Datuk Lee Chong Wei were granted their titles at the age of 24 and 25 respectively. For comparison’s sake, Pandelela Rinong is currently aged 28. Yet she won her first international gold medal at the age of 14