Weightlifting, sepak takraw and taekwondo dropped as core sports
Published on: Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Kuala Lumpur: Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin today announced that weightlifting, sepak takraw and taekwondo have been dropped from the list of national core sports due to poor performance or not showing improvement.He said the decision was made after the ministry and the National Sports Council (MSN) conducted a review including an in-depth study on the performances of the three sports since 2007.He said deteriorating performance other than numerous disciplinary problems such athletes failing doping tests were the main reasons weightlifting was dropped while sepak takraw and taekwondo were dropped for not showing improvement in their performances.
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"The performance of weightlifting is deteriorating and athletes are facing disciplinary problems whereby seven doping cases have been reported by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) since four years ago. Sepak takraw did not focus much on development aspects and the world ranking is threatened by emerging countries."The achievement of taekwondo is extremely not satisfactory. This sport does not exhibit positive achievements and the crisis in the sport has resulted in disunity among stakeholders.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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In this regard, Khairy said following the announcement the three sports were also being dropped from the 2018 Malaysia Games (Sukma) in Perak and that their involvement in numerous National Sports Council (MSN) and Malaysian Education Ministry programmes would be limited. – Bernama
