Congratulatory messages preserve pouring in for Malaysia’s dynamic duo Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik after they clinched the bronze medal on the Paris Olympics on Sunday evening (Aug 4).
The newest to want the fellows a job nicely executed is Oscar winner Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh.
The Ipoh-born actress posted a photograph of Aaron and Wooi Yik with their bronze medals on Instagram with the message: “Congratulations. So proud and blissful that our Malaysian boys gained the Bronze medal.”
Yeoh and her husband Jean Todt have been in Paris to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympics on July 26. The Hollywood actress is an elected member of the International Olympics Committee.
Earlier immediately, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi prolonged his congratulations to the nationwide males’s doubles pair.
“You each have demonstrated that with relentless willpower and a robust preventing spirit, success is certainly attainable. We are immensely pleased with your accomplishments. You have elevated the nation’s title on the worldwide stage and grow to be an inspiration to all Malaysians,” he stated in a Facebook submit.
MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong congratulated Aaron and Wooi Yik shortly after the pair gained the medals.
“It was a fierce and thrilling match for the bronze medal in the men’s doubles badminton category,” Dr Wee stated on Facebook yesterday (Aug 4).
He concluded his submit with, “Congratulations Malaysia!”
In his social media submit, Datuk Lee Chong Wei described the match between the Malaysian doubles pair towards Denmark’s Kim Astrup-Anders Skaarup Rasmussen as a “loopy recreation”.
The three-time Olympic silver medallist stated this when praising the duo for their resilience in preventing again towards the Danes.
“First Olympic medal for Malaysia! So pleased with you boys. What an unbelievable recreation. A recreation that was purported to be misplaced, however the males’s pairing from Melaka and Kuala Lumpur introduced again hope step-by-step for the flag on their chests,” stated Chong Wei.
Squash legend Datuk Nicol David additionally posted her congratulatory message on social media.
“Words can’t describe how proud I’m to see the struggle in our Malaysian boys.
“It was a present of true grit and expertise to return again from 20-16 down within the second recreation with 4 match factors towards them.
“They didn’t falter as a result of they knew what they have been able to, and that comes from expertise,” she stated.
On Sunday evening, Aaron-Wooi Yik gave badminton followers a match that will probably be talked about for years to return. The Malaysian pair got here again from the brink of defeat to beat the Danes with an outstanding 16-21, 22-20, 21-19, profitable Malaysia’s first bronze medal in Paris Olympics.
