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Panipak: Carrying the burden of hope
Sports, Hanif Hassan, Published on 21/07/2024
» Taekwondo star Panipak Wongpattanakit is under no small amount of pressure to deliver the goods at the Paris Olympic Games, so much so that the two-time world champion has resorted to seeking divine help.
Hot Puripol ignites hopes for a better show
Sports, Hanif Hassan, Published on 20/07/2024
» So far, Thailand's participations in the track and field events of the Olympic Games have been primarily aimed at helping its athletes gain "international exposure" -- this could all change at Paris 2024 early next month.
Coronavirus-induced hiatus could help Thais
Sports, Hanif Hassan, Published on 15/03/2020
» These are depressing times for everyone. None more so than for sports fans as events around the world continue to be called off by the hour due to the unabated spread of coronavirus.
Dauntless Thais aiming to strike where it counts
Sports, Hanif Hassan, Published on 05/08/2018
» When taekwondo paladins from different countries get on the canvas at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia, Thailand will be among the nations scrabbling around for the crumbs left behind by the South Korean juggernaut.
Ultras menace poses a clear and present danger of different sort
Sports, Hanif Hassan, Published on 03/01/2017
» As the Thai athletes prepare themselves for the tests and trials they are likely to face this year, the country's sports administrators had better brace themselves for an altogether different challenge.
Will the clean athlete (if any) please stand up?
Sports, Hanif Hassan, Published on 25/09/2016
» So it finally turns out that pot-bellied couch potatoes are the healthiest people on Planet Earth. At least this is what the leaked World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) secrets seem to suggest.
Ratchanok faces lifelong battle
Sports, Hanif Hassan, Published on 24/07/2016
» Ratchanok Intanon may dupe herself into believing that the turbulence caused by her doping controversy has cleared for good, but the bitter fact is that what happened in May this year will haunt the Thai badminton star for the rest of her life.