Badminton

Olympic venues

Click the venue names above for more information on each venue Venues away from London: The stadium is on a peninsula, with waterways on three sides. Aquatics Centre Sports: Swimming, diving, synchronised swimming, water polo,...

Athletics' funding cut for 2012

Published Date: 04 December 2008 ATHLETICS, the flagship event of the Olympic Games, has been handed a cut in its cash allocation to prepare for London 2012 while eight other sports face an uncertain future. UK Sport has...

More breakthroughs expected from world No. 2 pair

PETALING JAYA: Doubles pair Wong Pei Tty-Chin Eei Hui can expect exciting times ahead as they seek to achieve more breakthrough performances for Malaysian women’s badminton. Pei Tty-Eei Hui have now climbed to a career best...

SGF badminton

VISAKHAPATNAM: The District School Games Federation and the MVDMC High School are jointly organising the 54th SGF inter-District badminton tournament at the Swarna Bharati indoor stadium here from Thursday. The competitions...

Narrow win for Bharat Dynamics Ltd.

HYDERABAD: Bharat Dynamics Ltd. recorded a 2-1 win over City College Old Boys in the SAAP Budweiser Premier League football championship at the Gymkhana Grounds here. CCOB took the lead in the fifth minute when Rahim Baig found...

Be obsessed to excel

Much is said about excellence and the means to achieve it. From the time of the famous In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Bob Waterman, people have written about the virtues of excellence, paths to excellence and the...

BADMINTON: Rexy: Generosity costing players

MALAYSIA'S doubles players are at times too generous and this is costing them. National doubles chief coach Rexy Mainaky said this can only be stopped if the players start believing in themselves, battle hard and stop throwing...

Badminton: Mew Choo is determined to get back to full fitness

KUALA LUMPUR: Shuttler Wong Mew Choo is going through a most difficult period of her badminton career as recurrent injuries continue to haunt her. But the national number one does not intend to throw in the towel and will work...

National GP Finals hit by a spate of withdrawals

The National Grand Prix Finals are supposed to be the highlight of the domestic badminton calendar but this year’s championships have certainly lost their lustre with top shuttlers giving them a miss.

12. Badminton: Chong Wei goes for record 7th national title

World No 1 singles player Lee Chong Wei will compete in the national Proton-Grand Prix badminton finals to be held here from Dec 9-12 after all, allowing him to go for a record seventh national title.

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