While most of us agree that no matter if they win or lose, the Malaysian athletes that are representing the country in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics are truly winners in our eyes, it seems like the Malaysian media don’t share the sentiments we do. 

All the questions being asked to the athletes and the headlines by the local media, got us asking the question “ What is wrong with Malaysian reporters?”

One example is in this interview with Ng Yan Yee, you can fast forward to 2:50 is you are lazy to watch the whole thing: 

“So, awak kecewa dengan diri awak ke ataupun awak rasa awak dah kecewakan someone that you love ke ataupun .. “ This was the question a reporter asked Ng Yan Yee, a Malaysian diver who trained hard and managed to get a place in the Olympics. 

“Are you disappointed with yourself, or do you feel that you have let down someone you love?”

Although she did not make it to the finals, do you think this is a good question to ask someone who trained for years, won competition, and qualified to go to the Olympics and even at the Olympics gave her everything and tried her best?

The question even brought her to tears and made her apologise repeated for not being able to qualify for the finals. 

The reporter then tried to console her saying that the Malaysian’s are still supporting her and so on. But in the first place, that kind of question should have not been asked. 

Netizens bashed them in the comments, here are some of their reactions. 

We couldn’t agree more. 

In another interview with Lee Hup Wei, Malaysian high jumper, the reporter asked the following questions:

1 How do you feel that your whole process of getting here to the Olympics end with no marks?

2. You mentioned in previous interviews how you “membara semangat” to represent the country, to take the challenge at the Olympics venue but at the end everything didn’t happen. What was disturbing you or were you physically or mentally disturbed during the competition?

He even asked a question about what the interaction between the coach and Lee Hup Wei was after mistakes upon mistakes were made causing you to fail to jump over the height that was set. 

Overall, the questions were asked and the negative words that were used towards someone who represented the country in a competition between the best of the bests isn’t really appropriate.

Here are some of the reactions for the netizens in the comments:

The third example was from twitter, when one of Malaysia’s online new portals posted this poster of Dhabitah.

It states that Dhabitah failed to present the country with a medal, only in fourth place. The post was taken down and replaced with a new one after netizens started bashing them in the comments. 

Although the post was taken down, it was reposted, and netizens started sharing how the title should have been phrased. We think they did a good job:

At the end of tit all, we can’t agree more with what this netizen has to say:

Win or lose, for the athletes just to be a part of the Olympics is enough to make us proud!