AT one time, Malaysia’s elite athletes were keen to shed the tag “Jaguh Kampung” coined by certain segments of the sportswriting fraternity.
It was the cynics’ way of labelling athletes who excelled in their own backyard but struggled to replicate their form away from home.
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