Do not pamper and mollycoddle our elite athletes

By Rizal Hashim

AT the pinnacle of his career, Datuk Lee Chong Wei rarely gave television interviews at the studio, live or recorded.

By chance, I was handed this privilege in Astro Arena’s sports talk show called Kafe Sukan, co-hosted by this writer and Akbar Sahari many moons ago.

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