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PETALING JAYA: The real test starts now for Lee Zii Jia. As expected, the world No. 9 has set up a mouth-watering showdown with reigning champion Chen Long of China in the last 16 today. If his imperious form when he outplayed Frenchman Brice Leverdez to emerge champion of Group M yesterday is anything to go by, expect his clash with the Chinese to be an explosive one. Zii Jia gave the 35-year-old Leverdez absolutely no chance with his power and speed, winning the match 21-17, 21-5 in just 35 minutes. Chen Long, 32, should have warmed up well enough after picking up a routine 21-11, 21-10 win...

Published on: Saturday, July 24, 2021 By: AFP Text Size: TOKYO: Banned from the Rio Games for gambling and almost forced to retire last year after a car crash — Japanese badminton star Kento Momota (pic) is finally ready for his Olympic debut. The world number one is among the host country’s brightest medal hopes at the Tokyo Games, but he will just be glad to compete after fracturing his eye socket in a January 2020 accident. Momota said his “spirit was almost broken” as he tried to recover from the crash — hours after he won the Malaysia Masters — which killed the driver of the...

New chapter for China's shuttlers By SUN XIAOCHEN | China Daily | Updated: 2021-07-23 09:17 Share CLOSE No longer a dominant badminton force, China's inexperienced squad keeping lid on Tokyo medal expectations  Mixed doubles pair Zheng Siwei (right) and Huang Yaqiong, pictured in action during June's Olympic tuneup competition in Chengdu, Sichuan province, spearhead China's gold-medal hopes in badminton at the Tokyo Olympics. GETTY IMAGES Editor's Note: In the final installments of China Daily's Tokyo Olympics preview series, we assess t...

Now for our first ever Olympic gold 23 Jul 2021 / 07:46 H. THE Tokyo Olympic Games begin today after a one-year postponement due to the Covid-19 pandemic and there’s no better “vaccine” to cheer up the entire nation in these gloomy times than for our athletes to win Malaysia’s first ever Olympic gold medal. The Malay phrase “Ini kali lah” (This time it is) inspires me as a veteran journalist to foretell that the Olympic gold medal, the world’s greatest and most prestigious prize in sports, and the most elusive one for Malaysia, is highly likely to be won this time around.

PETALING JAYA: Badminton legend Datuk Lee Chong Wei has smashed his way to many firsts in his career as a player. As an administrator, he has now become the first chef de mission of the Malaysian contingent to work from home. It’s unprecedented but the physical absence and distance will not stop Chong Wei from being hands-on in managing affairs of the athletes at the Tokyo Olympic Games starting tomorrow. In fact, Chong Wei has already established a tight schedule to keep himself connected with the team led by chief secretariat Datuk Nazifuddin Najib in Japan on a regular basis.