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Paris Olympics: Our Doubles Pairs Book QF Place

Jul 29, 2024

Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik are through to the men’s doubles quarterfinals at the Paris Olympics badminton event.

This, after the medal hopefuls recorded a comfortable win over their Canadian opponents, for their second successive victory in the group stage.

The duo will now take on the world number one pair from China to determine the group winners.

Meanwhile, compatriots Chen Tang Jie-Toh Ee Wei are also through to the mixed-doubles quarterfinals after picking up their second successive group win.

Pearly Tan and M Thinaah bounced back from their opening defeat to beat their opponents from Japan in the women’s doubles.

While Lee Zii Jia got his singles campaign underway with a straight sets win over his Sri Lankan opponent.

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Malaysia’s challenge in the women’s archery recurve team event is over, after our national trio lost to Indonesia in the last-16.

All three of our archers will compete in the individual event tomorrow.

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Meanwhile, Olympics debutant Tan Rouxin finished 33^rd overall in the heats for the the women’s swimming 100m breast stroke event.

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In other developments, George Russel took the chequered flag at the Belgian F1 GP but was later disqualified for having an underweight car.

As a result his Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton was named the winner, ahead of McLaren’s Oscar Piastri and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc.