MA must arrest athletics’ decline ahead of next year’s SEA Games

Tough luck: Mohd Azeem Fahmi suffers an injury during his 100m final event in Aichi-Nagoya. — Bernama

THERE will be much for Malaysia Athletics (MA) to dissect after their athletes returned from the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games without a single medal – but only questions that played out on social media.

Some athletes had to endure baseless allegations and misinformation, especially those claiming that sprinter Mohd Azeem Fahmi had faked his injury.