Bad day at the pool

Untouchables: China’s Chen Yiwen and Chang Yani competing in the women’s 3m springboard synchro event at the World Cup. — AFP

PETALING JAYA: Disappointment was written all over diver Wendy Ng Yan Yee’s face. No thanks to an error-strewn performance by Wendy and Nur Dhabitah Sabri in the World Cup in Tokyo, Malaysia will not be represented in the women’s 3m springboard synchro event at the Olympics for the first time since the 2012 London Games.

Pandelela Rinong-Cheong Jun Hoong came in eighth at the London Games while Jun Hoong partnered Dhabitah to finish an impressive fifth at the 2016 Rio Games.