Champ’s dad hopes prophecy comes true

PROUD..Liu Yings Father Goh Chak Whee, 60 and mother Yong Oi Lin, 53, with the medals won by their badminton ace daugther at their home in Taman Sutera, Batu Berendam. Pix by Micheal Ching.

MALACCA: A father took his three-year-old daughter to see her first badminton match. As her eyes stayed glued to the game, the father told her: “One day you will be a great player, so good that you will bring back an Olympic gold for the country.”

Twenty-four years later, Goh Liu Ying is a hair’s breadth away from fulfilling her father’s prophecy.