PETALING JAYA: National Sports Council (NSC) director general Datuk Seri Zolkples Embong has blasted the organisers of the Asian Cycling Championships in New Delhi for not playing the national anthem when a Malaysian cyclist won the gold medal on Thursday.
Zolkples said it was a show of disrespect to the Malaysian team after Muhd Firdaus Mohd Zonis took the gold medal in the men’s junior 1km time trial event at the Indira Ghandi Velodrome.
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