THERE was a time in the early 1980s that when star shuttler Datuk Misbun Sidek decided to do the disappearing act and refused to be found – even the Inspector General of Police could not track him down!
Sports observer Zakaria Rahim calls for the leadership of BAM to be entrusted to the expert hands of the Sidek family to revive the nation's past badminton glory.
ANN/THE STAR – Former world number one Datuk Lee Chong Wei’s role as a member of the Academy Badminton Malaysia (ABM) Technical Advisory Panel is not to overshadow but to inspire the current generation of shuttlers. Chong Wei, Malaysia’s most decorated shuttler with three Olympic silver medals (2008, 2012 and 2016), was one of seven […]
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 Sidek in the 1992 Barcelona Games, badminton has delivered eight out of 11 medals in the country’s 65 year participation in the Games.