Weightlifting, sepak takraw and taekwondo dropped from 2018 Malaysia Games


Khairy Jamaluddin says the three sports would have to look for their own funds to run their programmes. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, December 12, 2017.

THREE mainstays of the Malaysia Games (Sukma) received a rude shock today when they were dropped from the 2018 programme.

Weightlifting, sepak takraw and taekwondo were dropped from the Perak Sukma due to a decline in performance, doping issues as well as power struggles within the associations.


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