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COMMENT | No place for race, religion and politics in sports
COMMENT | Has anything changed since this respected sports commentator left the scene 23 years ago? Have we progressed or regressed?

On taking office three months ago, Deputy Sports Minister Adam Adli talked about the national sports arena being free of corruption, inefficiency and leakages - in order to raise Malaysian sports to a higher level.

Many sports officials took umbrage, some pretended that these problems were non-existent while a few maintained stoic silence – either too afraid to speak out or not wanting to offend the officialdom - some of its members are prominent political leaders. A few could have been also on the gravy train benefitting from the crumbs thrown by the big boys...


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