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    Lee Chong Wei is a professional Malaysian badminton player who won the silver medal in men's singles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, becoming the first Malaysian to reach an Olympic badminton final. This achievement earned him the title of Datuk from the Malaysian Prime Minister and recognition as a national hero. However, Lee has failed to capture some major titles, like the Olympics, World Championships and Asian Games, which Chinese media contrasts to the achievements of his rival Lin Dan.

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    Lee Chong Wei is a professional Malaysian badminton player who won the silver medal in men's singles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, becoming the first Malaysian to reach an Olympic badminton final. This achievement earned him the title of Datuk from the Malaysian Prime Minister and recognition as a national hero. However, Lee has failed to capture some major titles, like the Olympics, World Championships and Asian Games, which Chinese media contrasts to the achievements of his rival Lin Dan.

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    Lee Chong Wei is a professional Malaysian badminton player who won the silver medal in men's singles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, becoming the first Malaysian to reach an Olympic badminton final. This achievement earned him the title of Datuk from the Malaysian Prime Minister and recognition as a national hero. However, Lee has failed to capture some major titles, like the Olympics, World Championships and Asian Games, which Chinese media contrasts to the achievements of his rival Lin Dan.

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    Lee Chong Wei

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    Lee Chong Wei is a professional Malaysian badminton player who won the silver medal in men's singles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, becoming the first Malaysian to reach an Olympic badminton final. This achievement earned him the title of Datuk from the Malaysian Prime Minister and recognition as a national hero. However, Lee has failed to capture some major titles, like the Olympics, World Championships and Asian Games, which Chinese media contrasts to the achievements of his rival Lin Dan.

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    Lee Chong Wei born October 21, 1982 in Georgetown, Penang .

    He is a professional badminton player from Malaysia who resides in Bukit Mertajam. Lee won the silver medal in the 2008 Olympic Games, thus becoming the first Malaysian to reach the final of the men's singles event and ending Malaysia's Olympic medal drought since the 1996 Games. This achievement also earned him the title Datuk, and a description by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak as a national hero. Lee was ranked first worldwide on August 21, 2008.[5] He is the third Malaysian men's singles shuttler after Rashid Sidek and Roslin Hashim to achieve such a ranking (since official rankings were first kept in the 1980s), and is the only Malaysian shuttler to hold the ranking for more than two weeks. Lee has as failed to capture several of badminton's biggest titles, including the Olympic Games, the World Championships and the Asian Games. This deficiency is often contrasted by the Chinese media to the achievements of Lee's rival Lin Dan, who has won all of badminton's major titles at least once. Lee, due to the intense rivalry with Lin Dan, has been labelled by the Chinese press as the "weakest world number one. PERSONAL LIFE In his early years, Lee favoured basketball, however his mother soon banned him from that activity due to the searing heat of the outdoor basketball court. Lee began to learn badminton at the age of 11.After receiving the nod from his father, the coach began to train Lee after school. Discovered by Misbun Sidek, he was drafted into the national squad when he was seventeen years old. On November 3, 2006, Lee was involved in a car accident. On his way to Bukit Jalil after dinner, he was knocked from behind by a vehicle which had lost control after a tire burst. He was then sent to the Sunway Medical Centre and treated with six stitches for his head injury. Lee received RM300,000 on August 21, 2008, as a reward for his silver medal effort in the 2008 Olympic Games. Also, he received RM3,000 a month as a lifetime pension beginning in August 2008.[10] For the same achievement, he was conferred with a Darjah Setia Pangkuan Negeri (DSPN), which carries the title Datuk by Governor of Penang, Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas on August 30, 2008.[11]

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