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Don't be sour grapes!

We are told that responding to stupid remarks on our online posts is not worth the effort. It is a known fact that most of the people who make these nonsensical rants are a minority but are loud enough to cause embarrassment. In real life, they would be too timid to say anything 'on your face' but gain Dutch courage through the cloak of anonymity and bang away their keyboards with impunity. While most of their shenanigans do not amount to much more than a storm in a teacup, it does excite the feeble-minded, which may describe the majority. Then there are paid trolls who kick dirt to keep a topic alive or plainly bully.  When the Malaysian Sport and Youth Minister was caught posing with the Olympic Badminton Silver Medallist, she was chided as being unpatriotic. The Silver Medal winner, a Thai player, had earlier defeated our player. So, to pose for a photograph, praise his game and label herself as his fangirl was, in the troll's opinion, bad taste and adding insult to inju...

First lady of the Olympics

Friday August 10, 2012 WHY NOT By D. RAJ The Star As the Olympics wind to an end, it’s time for some nostalgia, and to remember the first Malaysian woman to take part in the Olympics and those Olympians who never made it there. THE condo unit is a dedication to sports. On the shelf, there is a photo of the legendary Jesse Owens with a young girl, there are medals hanging on the wall and trophies on the cabinet. The coffee table is inlaid with sports pages. “That’s me in the march past,” says the sprightly lady of the house, pointing to the table. Her name is Annie Choong. Meeting a legend:  Choong with Owens when he came to Malaysia. Never heard of her? Well, long before shooter Suriyani Mohd Taibi had the whole world excited by going to the Olympics while being heavily pregnant, there was Choong. You could call her Malaysia’s first lady of the Olympics. She was, after all, the first Malaysian woman to take part in the Games. Choong was the only female member of the...