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PARIS, National women’s doubles pair Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah are set to face reigning bronze medallists Kim So Yeong-Kong Hee Yong of South Korea in the Paris 2024 Olympics quarter-finals on Thursday. The draw for the knock-out stage was held after the completion of group fixtures at the Porte de La Chapelle Arena here, tonight. At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, So Yeong-Hee Yong clinched bronze after beating compatriots Lee So Hee-Shin Seung Chan in the third-place playoff. In their only previous meeting against Pearly-Thinaah at the 2021 World Tour Finals group stage, the Koreans triumphed with a 14-21 14-21 victory. If

PARIS, The temperature, as well as the competition, began rising on the fourth day of the 2024 Olympic Games, with the badminton team continuing to showcase impressive performances, advancing to the next round. National women’s doubles pair, Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah, maintained their good momentum to create another upset, this time a 21-18, 21-9 victory over the world’s ninth-ranked pair, Apriyani Rahayu-Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti, to reach the quarter-finals. This makes them only the second Malaysian women’s doubles pair in Olympic history to compete in the quarter-finals, following Vivian Hoo-Woon Khe Wei at the Rio 2016 edition. Meanwhile, it was a

PARIS, The temperature, as well as the competition, began rising on the fourth day of the 2024 Olympic Games, with the badminton team continuing to showcase impressive performances, advancing to the next round. National women’s doubles pair, Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah, maintained their good momentum to create another upset, this time a 21-18, 21-9 victory over the world’s ninth-ranked pair, Apriyani Rahayu-Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti, to reach the quarter-finals. This makes them only the second Malaysian women’s doubles pair in Olympic history to compete in the quarter-finals, following Vivian Hoo-Woon Khe Wei at the Rio 2016 edition. Meanwhile, it was a

PARIS,, Malaysian professional men’s singles shuttler Lee Zii Jia easily cleared his Paris 2024 Olympics group stage to advance to the knockout phase as expected at the Porte de La Chapelle Arena today. The 2021 All England champion beat Spain’s world number 62 Pablo Abian, 21-10, 21-13 after 34 minutes in the Group G match to advance to the round of 16. Throughout the match, Zii Jia faced little trouble from the 39-year-old Spaniard, who is competing in his fifth Olympics since the Beijing 2008 edition. Zii Jia, the world number seven, began his campaign with a 21-14, 21-12 win

PETALING JAYA,, Malaysian Para Swimming Association (PREPMA) president Datuk Seri Megat D Shahriman Zaharudin has emphasised that the two automatic slots for the 2024 Paris Paralympics from World Para Swimming (WPS) are allocated to the country and not to individual athletes. Speaking to Bernama, Megat D Shahriman, who is also Malaysian Paralympic Council (MPM) president, said that the selection of athletes for the quadrennial Games has been decided by the Athlete Selection Committee based on three main criteria previously outlined. He stressed that PREPMA is always transparent in its decision-making process through a selection committee comprising MPM, the National Sports