August 7, 2012
Manoharan Apologises to Dato Lee Chong Wei for Disparaging Comments
by Hazlan Zakaria @www.malaysiakini.com
Kota Alam Shah assemblyperson M Manoharan has apologised for his tweets which many see as disparaging inhabitant shuttler Lee Chong Wei after his detriment to China's Lin Dan in Sunday night's men's singles badminton finals of a London Olympics.
"I deeply bewail a comments we have done as well as tender my heartfelt apologies to Dato' Lee Chong Wei as well as his family. we sincerely hope my apology will be accepted," Manoharan says in two tweets upon microblog site Twitter.
His mistake pas began soon after Lin Dan clinched a gold, when he tweeted: 
"Lin Dan wins. He played better than Lee Chong AWAY". Manoharan afterwards followed by by saying which Lin Dan had played better than his Malaysian counterpart as well as which anyone who suspicion differently was "talking nonsense".
Digging in further, he afterwards berated a supervision for promising monetary rewards for athletes as well as snidely pronounced which a money prize should now be lengthened to a "poor boy Lin Dan".
The DAP representative's tweets earned him brickbats from netizens, domestic leaders from both sides of a aisle as well as Malaysiakini commentators.
His apology came soon after DAP Secretary- General Lim Guan Eng chastised Manoharan for his "totally insens! itive" r emarks regarding Lee's defeat during a hands of Lin Dan.
Lim pronounced Manoharan does not paint a celebration as well as which he is "totally alone" in his views, but he declined comment upon either a celebration would take any movement opposite a assemblyperson.
Lim was responding to BN's call for a DAP to take a clear stand upon either it agreed with Manoharan's remarks.
Despite Manoharan's vitriol, Chong Wei was given a hero's acquire upon his attainment in a country today. Lim additionally voiced which Penang would present an endowment of RM100,000 to a shuttler for his efforts in representing a country as well as winning a silver medal for badminton in a Olympics.
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