Gold medals within reach as Malaysian athletes show their mettle in Rio


MALAYSIA is headed for its best ever medal haul in the Olympics – one silver is in the bag, two more are certain and if all goes well, it could well be three or even four golds for the country.

Mixed doubles shuttlers Goh Liu Ying-Chan Peng Soon showed the way, stunning world No. 6 Xu Chen-Ma Jin 21-12, 21-19 in the semi-finals at the Rocentro Pavilion 4 in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.

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