No Medal Rush For Malaysia

ANOTHER DOWNER: Katrina Ann had another bad day yesterday

NEW DELHI: Malaysia's poor showing yesterday pushed their medal standings to seventh spot on the fourth day of the 2010 Commonwealth Games as Australia and India continued their medal haul.

Malaysian athletes took part in 13 finals but only managed a silver medal in shooting — courtesy of Hazli Izwan Amir and Hafiz Adzhar in the 25m rapid fire pistol event.
While it was less productive day for Malaysia, there is a ray of hope today as more athletes would be chasing for medals.

At least 10 Malaysians would be taking part in the finals of their respective disciplines.
Our medal hopes lie in archery, badminton (team event), cycling, shooting, tables tennis, weightlifting and squash where Nicol David would be after her first CWG medal.
Unstoppable Nicol is closer to winning the elusive gold medal after she defeated Australia's Kasey Brown 3-0 in the semifinals yesterday.

"I had been giving her too much to work with," said the five time world champion.
"Once I started firing my drives in and making sure she had to work for the points, it was different."

In the men's singles squash semifinals, Ivan Yeun defeated Scotland's Harry Leitch 15-13, 9-11, 11-9, 11-5 making sure of a medal today.

"I feel great. I t's my f irst Commonwealth Games and I had a great experience," he said after the victory.
Meanwhile in the badminton mix team event, Malaysia defeated Singapore in the semifinals 3-1 and would take on India in the finals today.
Athletes would be chasing after 42 gold medals at stake today. Outside the stadiums, the Games is filled with woes and controversies — from choking toilets in the athletes' rooms due to used condoms, malfunctioning CWG website that irked journalists, half empty stadiums and annoying tight security.

Luck was not on Katrina Ann Abdul Hadi's side when she failed to grab a medal due to a small difference in points in the solo event of the Free Routine Synchronised Swimming.
The Malaysian swimmer was placed fifth place collecting 1.333 points behind Australian swimmer Tarren Otte (79.167) who was fourth place while Lauren Smith of Scotland won the bronze (80.333).