Thomas Cup never regained by Malaysia because of UMNO’s race based sports policies.

In the 1970s Thomas Cup was won by national legends like Tan Aik Huang, Punch Gunalan, James Selvaraj, etc for badminton, Santokh Singh, K. Arumugam for football, Jegathesan, Jeyamani, Yamuna Nair for athletics, Sri Shan, Devedran for hockey, and Mount Everest heroes Magendran and Mogan Dass.
But in the last 53 years of UMNO’s racist, religious extremist and supremacist agenda, Indians have been excluded from the national mainstream sports policies. Indians are being excluded right from primary school to district, state and national levels.
In a Tamil talk show ‘Info Focus’ in early 2009, it was shocking to hear a former Malaysian Indian sports icon encouraged Indians to go on individual sporting events like short and long distance running, etc., and not group sports, so that the winner will be obvious and cannot be ignored, as opposed to for example being excluded in the national football, hockey, badminton team, etc which has become race based as opposed to meritocracy.
As long as UMNO practices racism, religious extremism and malay muslim supremacy Malaysia will never get back the Thomas Cup.
The same applies to all endeavours in society, be it education or business!
P. Uthayakumar