Bronze From Pandalela at Olympic Diving London 2012

CONGRATULATIONS TO PANDALELA RINONG
Olympic Diving Photos - Diving Photo Galleries | London 2012
http://www.london2012.com/diving/event/women-10m/phase=dvw002100/index.html

Photo Credit

Pandalela created history for herself and Malaysia for being the first Malaysian for:

• First Malaysian women to win a medal at the Olympics
• Breaking the dominance of Badminton as as medal winner at Olympics
• Youngest Malaysian Women to win a medal at Olympics
• First women as flag bearer for Malaysian contingent

Both Photo Credits

UPDATE

Bronze For Heroic Pandalela - NST
The bronze means Pandelela has won a medal at every level, including a silver in the 10m platform at the 2010 Junior Olympics at Sydney.

It also means she will receive RM150,000 from the National Sports Council and a lifetime pension of RM2,000 monthly.

This Bloggers comment: She has a few more Olympics to dive and can she has the potential to deliver our first Olympic Gold Medal at Rio2016, being to find a replacement at Dato' Lee Chong Wei's calibre is far fetched.   

One Archer Move On To 1/16 In Men's Individual.

It is quite unlucky that they have to fight each other to make into the 1/16 round of the Men's Individual.
Cheng Chu Sian and Khairul Anuar Mohammad has beat each other to make it. Another archer Haziq Kamarudin will meet Denis Gazanka from Kazakhstan. This was decided during the ranking round.

Cheng and Khairul will fare on 31 July while Haziq on 30th July. This means that only two of our archer will have the opportunity to make the 1/16 round and one is already confirmed.

Harian Metro News

Malaysia Athlete Create Olympic History At London2012

First Yahoo listed Malaysia Uniform as among the worst during the contingent march past at London2012 Opening Ceremony. Then Malaysia again caught their attention when Nur Suryani Mohammed Taibi shoots at the Royal Artillery Barracks at Woolwich in South East London.

We have known the result of her participation in the 10m Air Rifle. She scores 392 points and ranked 34 out of 56 participants. Even though she did not make it into the last eight for the Finals, she did get some attention especially from Yahoo Sports because of her condition. As we all know she is in her eight's month pregnant and maybe she had created a history not only for herself or Malaysia but also Olympic history to date.  

Not only is Taibi one of the few pregnant women in Olympic history, but she is also the most pregnant woman in Olympic history.

Yahoo wrote; LONDON – Her baby kicked inside her – arms stretching, legs flailing – so Nur Suryani Mohammed Taibi clutched her rifle and cooed what any pregnant woman should say while standing in the Olympics with gun in hand.

"Mommy is going to shoot here."

And if that isn't the best story of these Olympics, what possibly is?

The rest of the story HERE

Pictures HERE

Malaysia's Nur Suryani Mohd Taibi takes aim during the women's 10m air rifle qualification competition at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the Royal Artillery Barracks at Woolwich in southeast London July 28, 2012. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (BRITAIN - Tags: SPORT OLYMPICS SPORT SHOOTING)

Yahoo concluded : The best story of these Games was gone before they had barely started.

Malaysian Uniform Among The Worst During London2012

Oh My God! Our Malaysian Contingent has the worst uniform during the opening ceremony of London2012. I first saw it on Facebook. It was a screen capture from the internet. I goggled and found out it was on Yahoo Sports. The page consist of 17 thumbnails showing the best and worst uniforms. Even though it is not an official evaluation (I think), our uniform being shortlisted as among the worst should be taken into account and corrected by Malaysian Olympic Council, National Sports Council (representing Ministry of Youth and Sports) and Ministry of Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage.

The Malaysian uniform was described as Malaysia's tiger printed yellow, orange, and black uniform was a little too bold.

Maybe the authority in charge of dressing up our member of the Malaysian contingent had made a good choice but the colour did not please the Tiara Chiaramonte, who produce the article. Urghhh, that red sports shoe and his sampin spoil the uniformity. Else these guys and ladies looks nice. Maybe next time we put a Iban worrior on the first line among the men and see what Tiara will say.  

For once our sportsmen was dressed up with a Malaysian Touch and Flavour, the panglima look for the men while the ladies very feminine. As I can see (hope I am not mistaken) there is an essence of East Malaysia culture of the Bajaus or Suluk design. 

Besides Malaysia, Britian, Czech Republic, Canada, Germany, Ukraine, New Zealand and Mexico were also voted as worst uniforms.  

Meanwhile USA, Sweden, Brazil, Switzerland, Netherland, Isreal, Jamaica, Italy and France were voted as having the best uniforms. 

Note: There are spots fan asking why not fix to the Baju Melayu and Sampin Songket with a better moulded Tanjak  than the simple one worn by Team Malaysia @ London2012. 

After all the view is just my 2 cents evaluation. 



UPDATED 29 July 2012


I found another comments from a foreign blog who blogs about fashion listed our uniform in his blog and this is what he says about ours:


Olympic Uniform #18 – Malaysia
Someone pulled a shifty on the Malaysian team and told them the opening ceremony was team fancy dress.

Our team was rated second worst and the worst is Ukraine 

The comment on that blog (maybe they are Malaysian and if both of you are, congratf for the support)

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i like malaysia dress, because it is their culture dressing, so it's colourful and characterful.. and they make it interesting with harimau malaya (malayan tiger) stripes design in their sampin and kebaya dress.. malayan tiger are their nation symbol.

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Too bad... Coz u the fashion magazine editor... But u seems know notthing bout fashion... I think malaysian dress is classy.. Coz they wear thier traditional attire... Yes no guuci.. No prada.. No boss. No LV.. But not typical as other countries.. Come with a suit.. Like hello!

Let The Games Begin

The Olympic curtain has been raised when QE announced her opening declaration during a spectacular display in London. 


Many Malaysians who woke up the whole night to watch our "Tigers" march during the contingents march past were dissapointed when their presence is just for a brief few seconds. 

Photo credit

This is Astro Arena's photo from their FB page of our "Tigers and Tigress" during the march past at London2012 this morning. 

Keep up to date information about London2012 because there are mobile apps that run son iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows mobile. There are two different apps that you can download that ie London 2012 Joinin App and London 2012 Result App. I have downloaded both on my Android and Blackberry. 


Seems the social media has been put to maximum use by LOGOC after making its first appearance in Beijing 2008. They make their presence on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Foursquare.


To follow our athletes competetion schedule click HERE and HERE for Badminton draw. 


For live updates, delayed telecast on HD and 3D experience for the first time READ HERE.

Badminton Draw For London2012

This information was taken from Badminton World Federation

Note: Malaysian players in Dark Blue

London 2012 Olympic Games Draw: Men's Singles

(Groups A to H are the draw's top half, Groups I to P are the draw's bottom half)

Group A Lee Chong Wei (1) Ville Lang	Group B Simon Santoso (9) Michael Lachnsteiner Raul Must	Group C Kenichi Tago (8) Niluka Karunaratne	Group D Nguyen Tien Minh (10) Kashyap Parupalli Tan Yuhan
Group E Chen Long (3) Boonsak Ponsana	Group F Wong Wing Ki (16) Edwin Ekiring Brice Leverdez	Group G Peter Gade (5) Pedro Martins	Group H Son Wan Ho (13) Vladimir Ivanov Hsu Jen Hao
Group I Jan O Jorgensen (12) Misha Zilberman Derek Wong	Group J Lee Hyun Il (7) Rodrigo Pacheco Carrillo	Group K Marc Zwiebler (14) Mohamed Ajfan Rasheed Dymtro Zavadsky	Group L Chen Jin (4) Wacha Przemyslaw
Group M Rajiv Ouseph (15) Henri Hurskainen Kevin Cordon	Group N Sho Sasaki (6) Virgil Soeroredjo	Group O Taufik Hidayat (11) Pablo Abian Petr Koukal	Group P Lin Dan (2) Scott Evans

London 2012 Olympic Games Draw: Women's Singles

(Groups A to H are the draw's top half, Groups I to P are the draw's bottom half)

Group A Wang Yihan (1) Michelle Li	Group B Bae Yeon Ju (11) Tee Jing Yi Agnese Allegrini	Group C Cheng Shao Chieh (7) Neslihan Yigit Simone Prutsch	Group D Gu Juan (13) Victoria Na Monika Fasungova
Group E Saina Nehwal (4) Sabrina Jaquet Lianne Tan	Group F Yao Jie (14) Ragna Ingolfdottir Akvil Stapusaityte	Group G Tine Baun (5) Anastasia Prokopenko Kamila Augustyn	Group H Sayaka Sato (12) Susan Egelstaff Maja Tvrdy
Group I Pi Hongyan (16) Hadia Hosny Chloe Magee	Group J Sung Ji Hyun (8) Yip Pui Yin Sara B Kvaerno	Group K Tai Tzu Ying (10) Anu Nieminen Victoria Montero	Group L Li Xuerui (3) Carolina Marin Claudia Rivero
Group M Ratchanok Intanon (9) Thilini Jayasinghe Telma Santos	Group N Juliane Schenk (6) Larisa Griga Kristina Gavnholt	Group O Petya Nedelcheva (15) Adrianti Firdasari Alesia Zaitsava	Group P Wang Xin (2) Rena Wang

London 2012 Olympic Games Draw: Men's Doubles

Group A Cai Yun / Fu Haifeng (1) Fang Chieh Min / Lee Sheng Mu Ross Smith / Glenn Warfe Ingo Kindervater / Johannes Schoettler	Group B Ko Sung Hyun / Yoo Yeong Seong (4) Bodin Issara / Maneepong Jongjit Adam Cwalina / Michal Logosz Mohammad Ahsan / Bona Septano
Group C Mathias Boe / Carsten Mogensen (3) Chai Biao / Guo Zhendong Dorian Lance James / Willem Viljoen Vladimir Ivanov / Ivan Sozonov	Group D Chung Jae Sung/Lee Yong Dae (2) Howard Bach / Tony Gunawan Naoki Kawamae / Shoji Sato Koo Kien Keat / Tan Boon Heong

London 2012 Olympic Games Draw: Women's Doubles

Group A Wang Xiaoli / Yu Yang (1) Jung Kyung Eun / Kim Ha Na Valeri Sorokina / Nina Vislova Alex Bruce / Michelle Li	Group B Mizuki Fujii / Reika Kakiiwa (4) Jwala Gutta / Ashwini Ponnappa Cheng Wen Hsing / Chien Yu Chin Shinta Sari Mulia / Yao Lei
Group C Ha Jung Eun / Kim Min Jung (3) Leanne Choo / Renuga Veeran Michelle Edwards / Annari Viljoen Meiliana Juahari / Greysia Polii	Group D Tian Qing / Zhao Yunlei (2) Miyuki Maeda / Satoko Suetsuna  Christinna Pedersen / Kamila Rytter Juhl Poon Lok Yan / Tse Suet Ying

London 2012 Olympic Games Draw: Mixed Doubles

Group A Zhang Nan / Zhao Yunlei (1) Alexandr Nikolaenko / Valeri Sorokina Michael Fuchs / Birgit Michels Chris Adcock / Imogen Bankier	Group B Joachim Fischer / Christinna Pedersen (4) Shintaro Ikeda / Shiota Reiko Toby Ng / Grace Gao Robert Mateusiak / Nadiezda Zieba
Group C Tontowi Ahmad / Liliyana Natsir (3)  Thomas Laybourn / Kamilla Rytter Juhl Lee Yong Dae / Ha Jung Eun Viju D / Jwala Gutta	Group D Xu Chen / Ma Jin (2) S Prapakamol / S Thoungthongkam Chan Peng Soon / Goh Liu Ying Chen Hung Ling / Cheng Wan Hsing

In the singles, only the winner of each group will qualify for the Round of 16: [A vs B, C vs D] [E vs F, G vs H] [I vs J, K vs L] [M vs N, O vs P]. The two winners of the two ties in each [ ] will then face-off in the quarter-finals.

In the doubles, the top two of each group will qualify for the quarter-finals. And in the doubles quarter-finals, the top half of the draw will have A1 vs C2 and B1 vs D2, while bottom half of the draw will have A2 vs C1 and B2 vs D1.

N.B Seeds are denoted in the ( ).