The ‘Tragic Games’

By 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

By 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...

Extra Bags In Munich

By S.Balasingam: We went to the 1972 Munich Olympic Games with too many forwards. Why the Malaysian Hockey Federation selectors made such a poor selection baffled...

The Trails Blazers

By Wilfred ‘Freddy’ Vias: It was our first time playing in the Melbourne Olympic Games in 1956. In fact it was a first time that a...

Discard to Mastercard

By Yang Siow Meng: The headlines screeched ‘Yang Siow Ming axed from Olympic squad’ that fateful day after the selection was announced. My disappointment was acute. Yes,...

A Talented Bunch

By Dennis Shepherdson: My father Anselm Nicholas Shepherdson was born in Taiping on 14 May 1900. He worked with the Malayan Railways. He was a very...

Unable to Express Truth

By Rahim Abdullah: We have always lived in a society that had practised diplomacy, and exercised plenty of discretion. The brutal truth, was generally buried under...

My Divine Journey

By Windsor John: In our journey of life, many will come into our paths, through family ties, friendship, colleagues, and people we know on social media. Some...

In the beginning

By Christina Kwok: I was only 13 years old when we first “met”. Seems a bit young, now when I think back… but it was all...

We Were One As a Team

By M.Karathu: Tunku Abdul Rahman’s contribution to football in Malaya and Asia, remains legendary. He was the father of football. He built the Merdeka Stadium in 1956...