MALAYSIA will have to wait for four years more to get another chance to win the Asian Games gold medal in team badminton after they crashed to a 1-3 defeat by defending champions South Korea in the men's semi-finals at the Aspire Hall 3 in Doha last night.
The hope was on Lee Chong Wei to earn the first point for Malaysia against Lee Hyun-il but he played a match littered with mistakes and was beaten 19-21, 19-21. It was the Malaysian number one's first defeat by the Korean in five meetings this year.
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