As for Archery, even though the team didn’t get into the semi-finals, they still did well enough to compete in the quarterfinals. Good for them! Cycling (track) will only commence this Friday, so we’ve still some hope.

All in all, it has been an exciting Olympics so far, with American Michael Phelps becoming the “greatest-ever Olympian” with a record-breaking 11 Olympic golds in Swimming in his bag so far.

What do you think of Malaysia’s performance in the Olympics thus far? I know that even though many of us are keeping a look-out on the political situation here in Malaysia (Will Anwar really succeed in toppling the government in a month as he promised? How will the Penangnites vote?), we should still put aside all this and unite together to support our Malaysian athletes at the Olympics!

(Photo thanks to geckoam)

So cute! Why don’t we have Animal Olympics?

(Photo thanks to carinasuyin)

8 is considered a lucky number amongst the Chinese community, so is it any wonder then that Beijing will be conducting the Opening Ceremony of the Summer Olympics 2008 at 8:08pm today, the 8th day of the 8th month of 2008? Malaysia will be showing its might to the rest of the world by sending 33 of our best athletes to compete this year. We will be competing in 9 sports categories: Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Cycling, Diving, Shooting, Swimming, Taekwondo and Weightlifting! Malaysia had done us proud over the years by winning 3 Olympic medals at badminton so far and this year promises more exciting action!

The hot Malaysian athletes to look out for:

Archery – Three-man archery team: Cheng Chu Sian, Muhammad Marbawi Sulaiman and Wan Khalmizam Abdul Aziz, currently ranked 4th best in the world.

Badminton – Men’s singles Lee Chong Wei, number 2 in the world.

Cycling – Men’s cycling quartet: Azizul Hasni Awang, Josiah Ng, Rizal Tisin and Muhd Edrus Yunus, who achieved success at this year’s Asian Cycling Championships.

So let’s wish our athletes all the best and tell them, “Selamat berjuang, Malaysia boleh!”