National swimming body hail timely financial injection


PETALING JAYA: The Amateur Swimming Union of Malaysia (Asum) has hailed the timely inclusion of swimming as one of the six core sports to be improved urgently under new national budget announcement.

Its secretary-general Edwin Chong revealed that the standard of our national swimmers have declined so severely that Malaysia is even in danger of not winning a single gold when the country hosts the 2017 SEA Games.

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