Where are our shuttlers?
The limelight has mostly been on the national football team. Hockey - and its never ending fiasco - tries to take centre stage too as seen on Malaysian Hockey. What about our national shuttlers who were smashed out from the group stage of the BWF Super Series Finals in China? What measures are being taken to ensure the shuttlers remain consistent from 2013 and beyond? Are the powers-that-be willing to step up and admit the current crop of players have no potential to join the elite rank and it could take perhaps 10 years or more before a new talent is found? Most importantly, why is the national federation (the BA of Malaysia) taking it upon themselves to find, scout, hone, mold, pump in millions into the players when they should instead organise more tournaments are work even closer with the schools at the grassroots? Indonesia is facing a similar problem despite a having a larger, much larger, population than us. Why should we be contended and claim that if it is diffic...