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The Melbourne XVIII Commonwealth Games just concluded yesterday. Malaysia was placed eighth with a total of 29 medals of which 7 are gold medals. Once again Malaysia's strength lies with its badminton team having won a total of 4 golds (Men's single, Men's double, Women's double, Mixed team) and 3 silver. The other events that Malaysia did well was rhythmic gymnastics (4 silver 2 bronze), weightlifting (1 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze) and shooting (1 silver and 4 bronze).
Malaysia should be proud of its achievement because all the medals were won by true-blue Malaysians. We had relied on our own strength and our programmes to advance in the sporting arena. Whatever achievements we gained are gained through the hardwork of Malaysians, not pseudo-Malaysians that are 'imported'.
This is the way to go in sports as there are no shortcuts. By taking shortcuts, there may be a vacuum when these 'foreign' sports talents retire as the locals may not make the mark. To achieve similar results, more foreign sports talent need to be recruited and the cycle feeds itself. Only by training our own atheletes and sending them to international events, sometimes just for the experience, is the slow but sure way to improve our sporting prowess. Malaysians must not be ashame of any failure because each failure is a lesson towards success.
I was lucky enough to watch the women's badminton doubles between Malaysia's Chin Eei Hui and Wong Pei Tty and China's Jiang Yanmei and Li Yujia. Oops! I mean Singapore...
Once again, syabas Malaysia and Malaysia Boleh!
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Monday, March 27, 2006
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Very impressed with Malaysia's performance in diving, especially the young boy in the 10m and the guy who won silver in 1m springboard (I think it was 1m), just behind the WORLD champion from Canada.
Regard you mention the retire in your articles.
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The guy who won the 1m springboard is Yeoh Ken Nee. His CV is impressive (Link) and the young boy is James Sandayud from Sabah, who first represented Malaysia in 2002 CG in KL.
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