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KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 — More athletes are expected to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, with as many as eight badminton players likely to make the cut after the qualifying rankings were closed after the 2024 Finnish International ended today.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 — Those in charge of the Malaysian contingent have decided — for the first time in decades — not to announce the specific medal target for the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games to avoid putting unnecessary pressure on the athletes.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 19 — The use of naturalised athletes and sexual harassment against the cycling team are among the reasons that the Malaysian contingent failed to reach its target of 40 gold medals at the recent Cambodia South East Asian (SEA) Games.

PUTRAJAYA, April 11 — The medal target for the national contingent competing at the 2023 SEA Games in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, next month will be announced on April 30.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 16 — The National Sports Council (MSN) is optimistic that the national contingent will be able to achieve better results at the 2023 SEA Games in Phnom Penh, Cambodia compared to the edition in Hanoi, Vietnam last May.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 23 — The national contingent to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has the potential to finally end the long wait for the country’s first-ever gold medal at the world’s biggest multi-sports Games.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 4 — Difficulty in providing exposure at international championships due to the Covid-19 pandemic is the main challenge currently faced by many national sports associations, said National Sports Council (NSC) Athletes Division director Jefri Ngadirin.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 28 — Starting January 4, approximately 700 national athletes can finally breathe a sigh of relief when they can resume their training in full force and not just a quarantine-based training.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 14 — Most national athletes will continue training as usual with strict compliance of the standard operating procedure (SOP) at their respective training centres during the conditional movement control order (CMCO) period enforced in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya from today until October 27.