Lee Chong Wei backs juniors Chan Peng Soon & Goh Liu Ying
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics commenced three days ago amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Every four years, Malaysians come together to support our national athletes competing in the games. Among all the sports, we’ve always been banking on badminton to bring home the country’s first gold medal.
Malaysia’s badminton team did exceptionally well in the games five years ago in Rio de Janeiro, bringing home a total of three silver medals. This year, unfortunately, the odds are not in the favour of national
mixed doubles pair Chan Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying who suffered an early loss and harsh criticisms by netizens. But national badminton icon Datuk Lee Chong Wei has come forth to defend his juniors in a recent post on social media.
Chloe and Sam Magee made their exit from Badminton’s Swiss Open this morning.
The Raphoe pair lost their mixed doubles last 16 match 21-17 21-8 to the 7th seeds from Germany, Mark Lamfuss and Isabel Hertrich.
The tournament in Basel was their first competition since the Denmark Open last year.
The Magee’s will look to get back on track for Olympic qualifying at the next tournament which is the All England Open Championships from the 17th -21st March.
They are just outside the cut off for Tokyo with the final rankings to be determined in April.
Earlier in the week, Chloe and Sam won their opening match beating an English pair.