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Tennis stars eye golden glory at home
Sports, Hanif Hassan, Published on 05/12/2025
» Hosts Thailand have thrown down the gauntlet ahead of next week's 2025 SEA Games, declaring that nothing short of four tennis gold medals will satisfy the home fans.
Taekwondo aims to strike the first blow
Sports, Hanif Hassan, Published on 03/12/2025
» In the high-stakes world of Southeast Asian sport, only a few disciplines carry the weight of national pride quite like taekwondo.
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.
King's Cup: Start of a new era for Thailand
Sports, Hanif Hassan, Published on 02/06/2019
» When the 47th edition of the prestigious King's Cup tournament kicks off in Buri Ram on Wednesday, it could also mark the start of a much-needed reset for the Thai national squad.
Hopes high, and fingers crossed, for 2019
Sports, Hanif Hassan, Published on 06/01/2019
» The year 2018 was an eventful one for Thai football -- one with a bucketload of heartbreaks -- and many of the country's sports fans will be happy that it's history now.
Time for Thais to sound out other coaching options
Sports, Hanif Hassan, Published on 09/12/2018
» A Shakespearean comedy is titled All's Well That Ends Well, but as far as the Thais' bid to complete a hat-trick of AFF Suzuki Cup titles was concerned it neither ended well nor anything seemed to be well within the team.
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.
Tough task awaits Thais in Indonesia
Sports, Hanif Hassan, Published on 29/07/2018
» A year ago in Kuala Lumpur, Worrawoot Srimaka pumped his fist in the air and blurted "Gu tham dai [I did it]!" as Thailand retained their men's football title -- the most coveted gold medal in the biennial SEA Games.