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The Star Online : 6 January 2009
By S. RAMAGURU
KUALA LUMPUR: The national hockey training squad will make better use of time for their daily workouts.
And under the new regime, the morning training session will begin at 6 and it will last for three hours. Previously, it started at 7.30am.
The evening session will start at 4 [...]

The Star Online : 30 December 2008
By LIM TEIK HUAT
PETALING JAYA: The national karate exponents had been in a state of uneasiness on whether they will lose coach P. Arivalagan but they can now look forward to the new year with plenty of optimism.
Arivalagan contemplated taking up an offer to coach in a foreign [...]

NST Online : 29 December 2008
By : K.M. Boopathy

Zolkples Embong (left), Ismail Sabri (top) and Azalina Othman.
THE pressure had been immense and no effort was made by National Sports Council (NSC) director general (DG) Datuk Zolkples Embong to hide his relief following Lee Chong Wei’s silver medal effort in the Beijing Olympics.
Gold may have [...]

NST Online : 24 December 2008
By Ajitpal Singh
OLYMPIC sports tennis, canoe and kayaking have been thrown out from the 2010 Malaysia Games in Malacca, a move which does not augur well for their development.
In fact, the Malaysia Games supreme council’s decision to not consider these sports goes against the government’s policy of giving priority to [...]

The Star Online : 23 December 2008
KUALA LUMPUR: An interim local coach will be appointed to handle the national hockey team if there is a delay in the hiring of a foreigner.
But he will not be Sarjit Singh, whose contract with the National Sports Council (NSC) and the Malaysian Hockey Federation (MHF) as the chief [...]

NST Online : 23 December 2008
By Ajitpal Singh
 
FORMER national forward Mirnawan Nawawi hopes that the National Sports Council (NSC) and the Malaysian Hockey Federation (MHF) will not rush into signing a foreign hockey coach, just for the sake of hiring someone to take charge of the national team.
MHF president Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah announced [...]

NST Online : 23 December 2008
By Ajitpal Singh
THE Malaysia Games supreme council has decided to stick with 25 sports for the 2010 Malacca edition.
In a meeting in Malacca yesterday, the council threw out appeals from the Lawn Tennis Association of Malaysia (LTAM), FA of Malaysia (FAM), the Terengganu Government for tennis, futsal, canoe and [...]

NST Online : 22 December 2008
By : Ajitpal Singh

Kuala Lumpur’s Marcus Chee.
COULD Malaysia mould a Rafael Nadal or Serena Williams? Only time will tell.
Judging by the performances of the juniors in the ECM Libra Foundation-LTAM Junior Team Championships at the National Tennis Centre in Kuala Lumpur which ended on Saturday, the local scene is [...]

The Star Online : 21 December 2008
KUALA LUMPUR: With time fast running out, the Malaysian Hockey Federation’s (MHF) search for a top notch foreign coach may well see them settling for second best.
Among the candidates the MHF had looked at included South Korean Kim Sang-ryul, Maurits Hendriks, Terry Walsh and Barry Dancer.
But, to date, they [...]

NST Online : 19 December 2008
By : Arnaz M. Khairul
HE journey of an explosive pint-sized warrior from Dungun, Terengganu, captured the Malaysian cycling fraternity’s imagination this year, more than anything else.
For once, thanks mainly to Azizul Hasni Awang and his new generation of fighters, there is belief, there is confidence and Malaysia dares to [...]