Syahir wants 20-year wait for takraw gold to end

PETALING JAYA: Twenty years on and the gold medals won in sepaktakraw at the 1990 Beijing and 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games are beginning to seem like a folklore to some.

Even young tekong Syahir Rosdi, who will be making his Asiad debut, wasn’t born yet when Malaysia bagged the double (team and regu) in 1990 and the regu gold four years later. The team event was not contested in 1994.