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Onto its ninth season now, the all-electric racing series Formula E has been picking up steam with its mission to race through the streets of the most iconic cities in the world - to show just what sustainable mobility is capable of and how driving electric vehicles can make for a better, cleaner future. One of the top teams in the series, Jaguar TCS Racing - has been growing from strength to stre...

Over the weekend, badminton history was made as national men's doubles Aaron Chia & Soh Wooi Yik etched their names into sporting folklore by becoming the first ever Malaysian world champions after their exploits at the 2022 BWF Championships in Tokyo. The much-maligned duo silenced their critics - shaking off the so-called 'semi-final' curse - by taking down the experienced Indonesians & 3-time w...

Eight years after arriving on our shores, Australian coach Brad Maloney leaves Malaysia to be at the helm of the Australian U-17 team. Leaving with a wealth of experience, the 50 year old - who spent his playing career with top A-league clubs and has represented Australia alongside the likes of Mark Viduka - was primarily in charge of youth football development in Malaysia, having groomed the like...

At the recently concluded 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games, the Malaysian team put in a solid shift - surpassing the six gold medal target set for the contingent - coming home with seven gold, eight silver & eight bronze. New stars were born too with names like Ng Jo Ee (rhythmic gymnastics) & Ng Tze Yong (badminton) introducing themselves onto the international stage to great effect. The young...

After winning the inaugural para-badminton gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, national shuttler Cheah Liek Hou has been going from strength to strength - currently on a 56 match winning streak & his eleventh consecutive championships, after his heroics at the at the 4 Nations Para Badminton International 2022 in Ireland. Gaining national prominence after the Tokyo win, he joins us on the pr...

For years now, Stadium Shah Alam has been plagued with structural issues due to a lack of proper maintenance, so much so that the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) deemed the iconic landmark unsafe, forcing their home team, Selangor FC to move out for this season's Super League. Amidst public uproar of an initial proposal to demolish the stadium - as revealed by Selangor MB Amirudin Shari - l...

Recently, discussions at the highest level of sports administration revealed proposed plans to grade sports facilities & venues around the country. With an aim to make sports more accessible and to increase the number of grassroot talent, the plan takes a page out of restaurant/hotel grading which would suspend low-grade facilities forcing them to improve to a satisfactory level of quality. How wo...

After 18 long years donning the Jalur Gemilang at the highest level, national high-jumper Lee Hup Wei hung up his spikes in March, calling the curtain on his illustrious athletics career. The experienced 35 year old will be part of the national setup grooming the next generation of high-jumpers. He's the first Malaysian track and field athlete to reach the final at the 2019 Doha World Championship...

With the Hanoi SEA Games come & gone, our young Malaysian contingent surpassed the medal-targets with 39 gold, 45 silver and 90 bronze medals – however a feat that only put us in sixth-place in the standings - which is our worst results in the SEA Games for 40 years in terms of final-rankings. However, a campaign that had its silver-linings as well, sports journalist Nicholas Anil joins us on the...

The golden-era of 1992 was the last time Malaysia lifted the prestigious Thomas Cup as part of only five nations that have won it. It's now six nations, where over the weekend - India created history clinching their first-ever Thomas Cup (and medal). The Zii-Jia led Malaysian contingent left much to be desired, going down to the eventual champions in the quarter-finals after a strong group-stage....

The postponed SEA Games is now well underway in Hanoi. Malaysia have sent a huge contingent of 584 athletes, with over half of them being debutants. Alongside a bunch of fresh faces, national stalwarts such as divers Datuk Pandelela Rinong, Nur Dhabitah Sabri, Wendy Ng, recurve archer Khairul Anuar and others will be battling it out to reach our target of 146 medals. We preview the multisport tour...

After numerous accounts of sexual harassment & abuse at the elite level of sports came to light last year, a bill is being drafted that aims to ensure a safe environment in all levels of local sports. Backed by Youth & Sports Minister Datuk Seri Faizal Azumu, whose set out a goal to create a new standard of care when it comes to reporting, training, policies, procedures, and periodic safety system...

First hitting the mat at the age of three, artistic gymnast Farah Ann Hadi sat at the pinnacle of Malaysian competitive gymnastics for 25 years. With numerous accolades to her name, the 2019 SEA Games champion recently announced that she's taking a step back & retiring from the national team. The 28 year old isn't completely done with the sport however, as she joins us on the program to share her...

Not too different to last year's football European Super League drama, the prestigious PGA Tour over the last couple of weeks have weathered a Saudi incursion - with the proposed Saudi Golf League, which had aimed to poach the best golfers under the PGA tour, reportedly offers larger purses, guaranteed payouts and 54-hole, no-cut tournaments. Sports journalist, Bob Holmes joins us on the programme...

In conjunction with International Women's Day, on the programe we have Datuk Leong Mun Yee, the first Malaysian - be it male or female - to compete in the Olympics five times, Sydney (2000), Athens (2004), Beijing (2008), London (2012) & Tokyo (2021). We take a deep dive into her career from her early beginnings as a budding swimmer to now being bestowed with a Datukship & continuing her diving ca...

Whatever foreign talents can do, Malaysians can do too. If not, even better. That's the sentiment of Dato' Sri Vijay Eswaran, the owner of a rebirthed Petaling Jaya City Football Club with their #YaKiniLokal campaign - where ahead of the upcoming Super League, PJCFC made it a point to employ a 100% local footballers & coaching staff. The only team in the top-tier of the Malaysian league without fo...

Towerrunner Soh Wai Ching had an excellent 2021 winning the 2021 Empire State Building race, a feat that made him the second best towerrunner in the world. At that race, he scaled the 86-story mega New York structure - which is over a 1500 steps - in exactly 10 minutes 46 seconds. With a mission of bringing this niche sport to the masses, the co-founder of the Towerruning Association of Malaysia j...

For days, there was nationwide attention on the status of badminton ace Lee Zii Jia & former world junior's champion Goh Jin Wei as they were served with a 2 year ban from BWF sanctioned tournaments after leaving the national training set-up. However, after a fruitful meeting with BAM president, Tan Sri Dato' Sri Mohamad Norza Zakaria early Tuesday evening - a deal was struck to lift the sanctions...

Although 2022's national budget is the biggest to-date, funding for sports was significantly reduced by 70%. As a result, at the turn of the new year, the National Sports Council announced that they will be dropping 144 full-time athletes from their training program. With that number representing almost half of the roster, some big names were under the NSC's cross-hairs. Former world number 5 Low...

To open up 2022, this week on the program, we recap the biggest sporting-stories of the year that was. From local-sports legends retiring to the uncertainty over Tokyo 2020, we present snippets from our archives last year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Doubted by many to make an impact on Malaysian football, the rebirthed Kuala Lumpur City FC had a stellar 2021 - clinching sixth-place in the Super League & defied the odds to lift the prestigious Malaysia Cup beating the much-fancied JDT. With critics now silenced, KLCFC can look ahead to representing the country on the continental stage having qualified for the AFC Cup with the Malaysia Cup vict...

Despite its "extreme" and athletic nature, skateboarding is seen more as a subculture, especially with the kind of symbiotic influence it has on various urban lifestyle elements. But because it's still a sport, there are skaters out there who pursue the sport for what it is. In this episode of Bar None, we look at how far skateboarding as a sporting endeavour has grown here in the country and the...