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Zii Jia, Aaron-Wooi Yik advance, Tze Yong crashes out at World C’ships

KUALA LUMPUR: National top men’s singles shuttler Lee Zii Jia put up another resilient performance at the ongoing World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, while Ng Tze Yong crashed out. Zii Jia, ranked 13th in the world ensured his place into the last 16 round after disposing of Canadian Brian Yang 21-11, 21-16 in the second […]

Soon Huat-Shevon hoping to overcome medal drought at World Championships

KUALA LUMPUR: The country’s professional mixed doubles pair Goh Soon Huat-Shevon Lai Jemie have targeted a semifinal spot to ensure a medal from the World Badminton Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark from Aug 21 to 27. Soon Huat, 33, said after having lost at the quarterfinal stages in the previous editions, he and his partner Shevon […]

Pandelela-Tze Liang end up fifth in team event

KUALA LUMPUR: The partnership of national divers Datuk Pandelela Rinong and Ooi Tze Liang only managed fifth place in the mixed 3m and 10m team event at the 2022 World Championships, late last night. The event, which is a combination of 10m platform and 3m springboard, saw Pandelela-Tze Liang accumulate a total of 350.25 points at […]

The final hour: X-Games Asia 2022, way to go

BY SUFIAN MOHIDIN THE only thing greater than the sight of ferocious, acuteness and exciting tricks from Aori Nishimura – X-games World champion 2019 — is the degree to which so many don’t know or can’t understand she does. Even if you’ve seen Aori Nishimura doing a “Backside-Misty-Flip-Switch” over a FunBox, you would likely have […]

2021 World Championships dates pushed back

KUALA LUMPUR: The 2021 Badminton World Championships which was initially scheduled to take place in August 2021 in Huelva, Spain, has been moved at the end of next year. Badminton World Federation (BWF) in a statement yesterday said the Spanish Badminton Federation (FESBA) has agreed to organise the biennial tournament from Nov 29 until Dec 5 at the Carolina Marin Stadium, […]

School team wins world championship

KUCHING: SMK Jalan Arang here sent two teams to participate in the MakeX Robotics World Championship 2019 in Guangzhou, China from November 28 to December 1. Sarawak Blue Team, represented by Joel Kwoh Lik Xun and Hii Tuong Jing, emerged champion in the MakeX Starter: City Guardian category. It managed to complete the mission with […]