Japan's Shinji Nakano (R) and Britain's Jack Carlin crash during the men's track cycling keirin final for gold of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines National Velodrome in Montigny-le-Bretonneux, south-west of Paris, on August 11, 2024. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP)
PETALING JAYA: A crash in the final dash to the finish line was certainly not how national cyclist Mohd Shah Firdaus Sahrom would’ve wanted to end his Paris Olympics campaign, but the hate channelled towards Japanese rider Shinji Nakano has to stop.
Shah Firdaus said the nasty comments that flooded Nakano’s social media pages have left a sour impression of Malaysians for the Japanese rider.
