It is a sad situation when 30 of our national athletes had been dropped recently by the National Sports Councl (NSC) and the state government through the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Entrepreneur Development (MYSED) and Sarawak Sports Corporation (SSC) would jointly look into ways on how they could be assisted.
I have mentioned to our media friends that it is a sad situation because these are our athletes. They are our hope... I don’t know what’s going on as I have yet to look into this deeper. But our ministry and the SSC will try to look into where we can assist these athletes because the competitive age for an athlete is very, very short, Sadly, among the Sarawakian athletes who had quit include national team swimmer and two-time Olympian, Welson Sim.
Some national athletes had not been given their allowances or provided with accommodation. We had also acknowledged the situation of some athletes being axed from the national programme, which I have remarked as ‘not very good’.The very least, MYSED and the SSC would reach out to the affected Sarawakians athletes. As much as possible, we will try to assist and at least, they are being looked after. Whatever politics is happening in ‘Semenanjung’ (Peninsular Malaysia), let them be, but I’m not happy about it. Welson Sim is a three-time SEA Games gold medallist and a two-time Olympian had tendered his resignation to Malaysian Swimming and the National Sports Council on Feb 7 – just a few months before the forthcoming SEA Games which is set to take place in Hanoi this May. The move made by 24-year-old athlete came as a huge shock to all of us since he had always carried Malaysia's challenge in international swimming events the past few years.
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