SPRINTER Haiqal Hanafi may have stolen the headlines with his 100m gold feat at the Philippines Sea Games on Sunday. The fallout occurred earlier this year when Karim slammed Poad for making a statement on 2017 Sea Games champion Khairul Hafiz Jantan. Poad had said that the 21-year-old Melaka-born would face a tough time in the biennial Games this year. Poad also hoped that more support would be forthcoming coming from the government in helping to place potential national sprinters in academies in the United States or Japan. “Now that Haiqal has proven a point, I hope we will see some changes under the new MAF leadership (Datuk S.M.

Source: New Strait Times December 10, 2019 03:11 UTC