PETALING JAYA: There were a mixed range of responses happy, worried, annoyance and doubts from the national athletes and sports bodies to the introduction of the new National Sports Council's (NSC) incentive scheme aimed to provide a better future for the athletes.
On Thursday, the NSC director-general, Datuk Wira Mazlan Ahmad, said that from this year, athletes would only be given 30% of their winnings and the other 70% would be channelled to insurance schemes for them.
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