Breakfast Time Bore!
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Colin Hart: My enduring memory of Muhammad Ali’s world title defence against Joe Bugner was that it was a crushing breakfast-time bore.
Along with the 22,000 fans in...
A Class of Their Own
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Terence Netto: Most Malaysian sports fans who lived through the period would be apt to argue that the era between 1966, when we earned an...
Truly Incredible!
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R.Velu: When I was asked to write an article for this Malaysian sports book of untold stories, reminiscences, personalities and events, I was a bit...
How I Outfoxed Them
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S.Sabapathy: I was nearly outfoxed by ‘athletics politics’ for a place in the 4 x 400m relay team to the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.
The relay...
My World Of Journalism
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Lazarus Rokk: My first ambition in life, since my upper secondary days in St John’s Institution, has always been to be a lawyer, a litigating...
Politician’s Folly
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Terence Netto: Sixty-five nations, Malaysia included, declined to send their athletes to the 1980 Moscow Olympics as a protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan....
Thorns & Thistles
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Tony Mariadass: Contrary to the common belief that the life of sports journalists is a bed of roses, it is indeed laden with thorns.
Having been...
Shattered Dream
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N.Sri Shanmuganathan: The preparation of the 1972 Munich Hockey team was unique as it was the unhidden hands of Zain Azahari, the President of the...
The ‘Tragic Games’
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R.Pathmarajah: The 1972 Munich Olympics Games will forever be remembered as the “Tragic Games”. The body count was 11 members of the Israel team. Germany...
Hello Shan, Bye Tara
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R.Yogeswaran: Till this very day a former national hockey captain says, “thank you” to me. Here is the untold story…..
Malaysian Hockey had qualified to participate...
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