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Published on: Thursday, July 22, 2021 By: Bernama Zii Jia will lead the country’s badminton challenge in Tokyo. Kuala Lumpur: Since making its debut in Barcelona 1992, badminton has always been the main medal contributor for Malaysia in the Olympic Games, except for Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004. At the previous edition in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro (Rio 2016), the national shuttlers brought back three silver medals, their best ever achievement in the Olympics. Apart from holding the honour of winning Malaysia’s first ever Olympics medal, a bronze through Datuk Razif Sidek-Datuk Seri Jalani Sid...

July 19, 2021 Joe Lo Our Tokyo Trail series looks at key issues and athletes in the run-up to the 2020 Olympics, which are scheduled for late July. In 2014, European badminton hit its nadir at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, England. For the first time in 115 years, no shuttler from the continent reached the semi-finals of the prestigious All England Open – the world’s oldest badminton tournament – with competitors from Asia instead filling up every final-four slot in all five events. Their overwhelming dominance alarmed Badminton World Federation (BWF) president Poul-Erik Hoye...

OLYMPIC MD Preview – Indonesians vie for a 4th gold Indonesia sends two solid top seeds into the men’s doubles competition in Tokyo, but they will be challenged by more than a dozen dangerous pairs all with their own chances at either a medal or at a chance to perpetrate a decisive upset. By Don Hearn.  Photos: Badmintonphoto The Tokyo men’s doubles field is as wide open as it gets.  On paper, world #1 Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (pictured top) are the overwhelming favourites but there are still some things on that paper that make it a very tough call.

news Tokyo Olympics: will European shuttlers threaten Asia’s badminton dominance? Illustration: Joe Lo Our Tokyo Trail series looks at key issues and athletes in the run-up to the 2020 Olympics, which are scheduled for late July. In 2014, European badminton hit its nadir at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, England. For the first time in 115 years, no shuttler from the continent reached the semi-finals of the prestigious All England Open - the world's oldest badminton tournament - with competitors from Asia instead filling up every final-four slot in all five events. Their overwhelm...

The world’s billionaire factory shudders as China cracks down We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Blake Schmidt, Coco Liu and Venus Feng July 13, 2021 — 10.20am Normal text size It was the kind of brazen PR stunt that Jack Ma might have dreamed up. But this wasn’t the flamboyant Chinese billionaire who disappeared from public view eight months ago. It was Mark Zuckerberg, bobbing up and down on a hydrofoil surfboard, clutching an American flag and exuding all the confidence of a man worth $US130 billion ($174 billion). Alibaba founder...