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The name
Nicol David is no stranger to Malaysians. The talented athlete is our country’s pride and joy as she has helped Malaysia gained tremendous recognition with her incredible achievements time and time again. And now, she can add another title to her long list of achievements –
the World Games’ Greatest Athlete of All Time – a title befitting our squash legend, indeed.
Nicol David came up trumps in online poll by a landslide
In an online poll held by the
International World Games Association, on its 40th anniversary, Nicol David knocked off the other competitors in the World Games’ global online poll by a landslide. She garnered a grand total of
In Hindsight 2020, we look at how Covid-19 has rendered this a dystopian year.
One by one, the lights started going out of sports from March. Since then, it was mostly sorrow and tears for athletes and sports enthusiasts around the world.
It was supposed to have been a great year, with the Olympic Games expected to hog the limelight in Tokyo and Euro 2020 to spark across 12 European cities, promising football fans some high-octane action.
Instead, both fell to that mighty yet miniscule conqueror called the coronavirus.
Other big events became victims too, like the Premier League, Formula One, the world championships of various other sports, tennis and golf tours, and the basketball, table tennis and football leagues, including our own.