The day a pair of scissors made Chong Wei go weak

Happy family: Chong Wei, his wife and sons Kingston and Terrance in a file picture.

KLANG: Badminton icon Datuk Lee Chong Wei recalled how he had gone all macho when the obstetrician asked him if he was ready for his wife’s caesarean delivery, and if he could snip the umbilical cord.“I murmured to myself, ‘How dare he look down on me when I’d cut racquet strings millions of times in my life? Potong saja ape susah? (I need only cut it, how difficult can it be?)’” Lee wrote in a Facebook post on Valentine’s Day.

When the time finally came for him to cut the umbilical cord of his firstborn son Kingston, in 2013, Lee said he turned to “jelly” the moment he held the scissors.