Olympic Games in Beijing, China

[bonny]

Great Opening Ceremony ........

[changtao]

How did the Malaysian fare for the past two days...

Swimming:
Lew Yih Wey – 400m individual medley
4:55.83 - 33th of 38 swimmers
Daniel Bego - Men's 200m freestyle heats
Set a new national record - 1:50.92, but finished 44th overall
Khoo Cai Lin - Women's 400m freestyle heats
4:23.37 for sixth place in Heat 3 - 38th of 42 swimmers

Archery:
Cheng Chu Sian, Mohd Marbawi Sulaiman and Wan Khalmizam Wan Abdul Aziz – individual ranking round
Individual:
Wan Khalmizam - 5th place - 674 points.
Chu Sian - 26th place - 660 points
Mohd Marbawi - 27th place - 659 points
Team - 3rd place - 1993 points
Others: South Korea - 1st place - 2015 points, Ukraine - 2nd place - 1997 points, Russia - 4th place - 1989 points

Badminton:
Women's Doubles - Wong Pei Tty-Chin Eei Hui
Lost 14-21, 19-21 to Lee Hyo-jung-Lee Kyung-won (South Korea)
Women's Singles - Wong Mew Choo
Win 21-4, 21-4 over Kerry Lee Harrington (South Africa)

Weightlifting:
Amirul Hamizan Ibrahim
Set national record with total of 265kg for an eighth place

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Malaysian in action today (11 August 2008)

Swimming:
200m Freestyle (M) - Daniel Bego
400m Freestyle (W) - Siow Yi Ting

Badminton:
Men's Singles
Lee Chong Wei vs Ronald Susilo
Wong Choong Hann vs Taufik Hidayat

Archery
Recurved Individual & Team

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Medal Tally

China 6 Gold 2 Silver 0 Bronze
South Korea 3 Gold 2 Silver 0 Bronze
USA 2 Gold 2 Silver 4 Bronze

these are the top three as of now...

[changtao]

Lee Chong Wei win 21-13, 21-14 over Ronald Susilo in badminton's Men's Singles...

[changtao]

Sorry for not able to keep this thread really updated with the latest new...

more work at office and the lack of resourceful information in the internet really hit my spirit for doing this...

anyway... here are some good news for all malaysian...

in badminton yesterday...

Round of 32 - Lee Chong Wei bt Ronald Susilo 21-13, 21-14
Round of 32 - Wong Choong Hann bt Taufik Hidayat 21-19, 21-16
Round of 16 - Wong Mew Choo bt Petya Nedelcheva 21-16, 21-8

in badminton today (so far...)

Round of 16 - Lee Chong Wei bt Kęstutis Navickas 21-5,21-7

Playing today
Round of 16 - Wong Choong Hann vs Hsieh Yu-Hsin (Tpe)

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Also playing today:

Round of 16 - Khoo Kien Keat / Tan Boon Heong vs Shuichi Sakamoto / Shintaro Ikeda (Japan)
Round of 16 - Choong Tan Fook / Lee Wan Wah vs Lee Jae-jin / Hwang Ji-man (Korea)

[Zidano]

Badminton is the only hope that Malaysia can grab a medal.

[changtao]

we will just hav to keep our finger crossed...

[klangster]

Yeah lor..too bad squash and bowling are still not an olympics event until today.
i am sure the rest of the world would like to experience silat olahraga, sepak takraw and even gasing spinning as well.

[thundercats]

(08-11-2008 01:55 AM)bonny Wrote:  Great Opening Ceremony ........

2 fake things, unfortunately:



Fireworks proceeded through the night sky from Tiananmen Square to the Bird's Nest stadium was a computer animation.




The 7 year old girl singing was not only miming, but the voice played wasn’t even hers.

SOURCES: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-N...%2BOlympi, http://www.inquisitr.com/2323/not-only-w...ld-singer/

[changtao]

Result from yesterday
Men's Doubles:
Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong beaten Shuichi Sakamoto-Shintaro Ikeda (JPN) 21-12, 21-16
Choong Tan Fook-Lee Wan Wah lost to Lee Jae-jin-Hwang Ji-man (KOR) 22-20, 13-21, 16-21

Men's Singles:
Lee Chong Wei beaten Navickas Kestutis (LIT) 21-5, 21-7
Wong Choong Hann lost to Hsieh Yu-hsing (TPE) 21-17, 21-18

Playing today:
Women's Singles:
Wong Mew Choo vs Lu Lan (CHN)
Men's Doubles:
Koo Kien Keat / Tan Boon Heong vs Markis Kido / Hendra Setiawan (INA)

[bonny]

Lets cheer for our badminton team ........ Malaysia Boleh