Paris 2024: Malaysia's quest for elusive gold starts on July 25

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Malaysia’s quest to end its nearly seven-decade wait for a maiden Olympic Games gold medal began on Thursday (July 25) as the archery competitions starts, a day before the Games' opening ceremony in Paris.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Malaysia's quest to win its first-ever gold medal in the Olympic Games began on Thursday,

00:07a day before the Games' opening ceremony.

00:10National archers Sayakira Mashayikh, Ariana Nur Dania Mohamed Zahiri and Nur Azrina Mohamed

00:16Fazil will take part in the women's individual ranking round.

00:21They were the first group of Malaysian athletes to arrive in Paris, and they underwent a training

00:25session at the archery venue Esplanade des Invalides on Wednesday.

00:30National shooter Jonathan Wong also arrived in France on Tuesday before checking into

00:36the Satellite Olympic Village in Chateauroux.

00:39He will take part in the qualification round of the men's 10-metre air pistol event on

00:44Saturday.

00:45The badminton team has also checked into the Games' village in St. Denis to prepare for

00:50their competition that will start on Saturday.

00:52The question is whether the Malaysian contingent of 26 athletes, with 61.5 per cent of them

00:58being debutants, can clinch the gold medal.

01:02On paper, badminton and track cycling are Malaysia's best bets for gold, even though

01:07the athletes are not labelled as favourites to win in the Games.

01:11In badminton, the men's doubles pair of Aaron Chia and Soh Wu-yik and men's singles player

01:17Li Zijia have the best chances for medals, while Chen Tangjie and Tou I-Wei could be

01:22a surprise package in the mixed doubles.

01:26Malaysia's track cycling legend Datuk Azizul Hasni Awang will contest in his fifth Olympics

01:31searching for gold in Cairn and Sprint, after winning a silver and a bronze in Cairn the

01:36Tokyo 2020 and Rio 2016, respectively.

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