Kenny says SEA Games miss no cause for alarm


Unstoppable: Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah won the women’s doubles gold in style. — IZZRAFIQ ALIAS/The Star

BANGKOK: Failing to meet the four-gold medal target at the Thailand SEA Games should not trigger a knee-jerk reaction against the national badminton camp.

Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) secretary-general Datuk Kenny Goh said it would be unfair to judge the shuttlers harshly for winning one gold medal from Bangkok through the women’s doubles pair Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah.

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