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Reckless and dangerous riding by ‘Hell Riders’ or “Mat Rempits” caused two promising national middle distance runners, Amran Raj and Mathialagan Subramaniam, to be hospitalised after they were involved in a road accident yesterday.
Malaysia Amateur Athletics Union (MAAU) deputy president Karim Ibrahim disclosed that Amran, who is one of the country’s top 4×400 metres runner and Mathialagan Subramaniam, a national junior 800 metres runner, were involved in the accident in front of Bukit Jalil LRT Station near here at 4.30pm.
He said the duo were in a Perodua Kelisa car driven by a national footballer and were on their way to Sri Petaling for afternoon tea when the incident happened.
Karim said according to Amran’s account when he visited him at the Serdang Hospital, the accident happened after the driver lost control of his car when several Mat Rempit overtook them recklessly and dangerously, causing the driver to knock into the back of another car before it ran over the road dividers and crashed into a tree on the opposite side nearby LRT station.
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Jenson Button in a Brawn won a chaotic Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday for a second straight victory after the race was abandoned when a ferocious storm lashed the Sepang circuit.
Nick Heidfeld in his BMW Sauber came second, benefiting from pitting only once to Button’s four times in a race that became a lottery. Timo Glock in a Toyota was third.
It was finally halted after 32 laps as rain pelted down, lightning flashed around the circuit and visibility deteriorated, the first time since Brazil in 2003 that a race has been called off due to weather.
Formula One supremos must take some of the blame after pushing for a 5:00 pm start instead of its regular 3:00 pm slot to satisfy European television audiences.
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World number one shuttler, Datuk Lee Chong Wei and national swimmer Sow Yi Ting were selected as the Male Olympian and Female Olympian 2008 respectively at the Olympian Night held at Wisma OCM, here tonight.
Chong Wei, 26, was selected based on his achievement as the only Malaysian athlete to win a medal at the Beijing Olympic Games in August.
The Bukit Mertajam-born athlete won the silver medal in the men’s singles after losing to China’s Lin Dan in the badminton final at the 2008 Olympics.
The silver medal was the second won by Malaysian athletes at the Olympic Games with the first silver won by the badminton doubles pair of Cheah Soon Kit-Yap Kim Hock at the Atlanta Olympic Games, United States in 1996.
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Spain’s Fernando Alonso snapped a year-long win drought to take the Singapore Grand Prix Sunday, winning a drama-filled first ever night race as a comical error cost Felipe Massa dearly.
It was the Renault driver’s first victory since the Italian Grand Prix last year and capped a remarkable weekend that saw him top two of the free practice sessions but start 15th on the grid after a mechanical problem in qualifying.
He claimed his 20th career triumph by 2.95 seconds over Germany’s Nico Rosberg in a Williams and Britain’s world championship leader Lewis Hamilton in third.
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Malaysian shuttler Lee Chong Wei was hailed as a national hero Monday despite his bitterly disappointing finals loss to China’s Lin Dan, which deprived the nation of its first Olympic gold. The silver medal was Malaysia’s best result in 12 years at the Olympics and the best achievement by a singles player.
Malaysians followed Lee’s progress at the Beijing Olympics with enthusiasm, hoping he could break a drought for the country, which had not won an Olympic medal since 1996 and has never claimed gold. Since Malaysia started taking part in the Olympics in 1956 at Melbourne, it has won two silver medals, including Chong Wei’s, and two bronze — all from badminton.
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Michael Phelps became the greatest Olympian of all time Wednesday winning two gold medals in the space of an hour to lift his career total to an unprecedented 11 on his charge to Olympic immortality.
As world records continued to tumble in the pool, Phelps passed the halfway point in his drive to be the first person to win eight golds at one Games when he blitzed the 200m butterfly final and led the US 4×200 freestyle relay team.
The champion American has now won five gold medals in Beijing, all of them in world record time, to go with the six he won in Athens.
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Daniel Bego broke his own national 200m freestyle record in the Olympic heats tonight, clocking 1:50.92s to better his previous mark of 1:51.05s at the national ‘Water Cube’ aquatics centre.
He finished sixth out of seven in the race which was dominated by American swimmer Michael Phelps.
Daniel, who is from Sarawak, holds two other national marks for the 100m butterfly and the 200m butterfly, his remaining events in his Olympics debut.
He is down to race in the 200m butterfly tomorrow night with hopes of making the semi-finals. He has a best of 1:59.40s.
In the women’s 400m freestyle, Khoo Cai Lin faded out, finishing sixth in her heat in 4:23.37s, off her season best of 4:18.20s.
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Kuala Lumpur was 13th of the 51 cities to be visited by the Olympic torch on its way to Beijing. The final 31 of these venues are all in China, on the torch’s domestic tour of this year’s Olympic Games host country. This should rekindle the Olympic flame into a semblance of glory by the time it gets to its final destination, after an acrimonious world tour during which this symbol of universal amity in sport was subjected to indignities from protesters expressing solidarity with the people of Tibet.
The Malaysian leg of the Olympic Torch Relay went on relatively smoothly yesterday, except for four people, including a family of three, who were detained briefly for displaying pro-Tibet sentiments. Those detained were a Japanese couple in their 30s and their 5-year-old son and an English woman in her 40s. They were released after being questioned by the police for several hours.
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