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Lee’s positive test claim has Malaysians in state of shock

Source: Agencies | October 23, 2014, Thursday |

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MALAYSIANS expressed shock and disbelief yesterday amid reports that national icon and world No. 1 Lee Chong Wei had failed a drugs test.

“Still hope this is not true... Whatever the outcome, we still with you!” one user posted on Twitter.

“Oh no, say it isn’t so!” another wrote among numerous comments posted on social media sites.

The country’s Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin confirmed late on Tuesday that an athlete had tested positive for a banned substance but refused to name the athlete.

However, Malaysia’s Star newspaper and other media reported that Lee, who turned 32 on Tuesday, had failed a random test at the World Badminton Championships in Denmark in late August.

“We had informed the athlete concerned who was shocked by the news,” Khairy was quoted by the national news agency Bernama as saying late on Tuesday.

Khairy added in a statement that the athlete had applied for a further test to be conducted and was waiting to hear from international sports authorities on the test date.

Khairy said he had asked top sports officials to probe all the medicine and treatment the athlete had received after Malaysia’s anti-doping agency was informed in an October 1 letter of the failed test.

The Badminton World Federation declined to comment, saying its anti-doping rules required confidentiality.

Neither Khairy nor Lee could be reached yesterday for comment.

Meanwhile, China’s state broadcaster CCTV revealed yesterday that Lee’s “B” sample had also returned positive. The national channel cited another Malaysian player Wong Choong Hann as its source.

CCTV claimed that Wong had got inside information from the Badminton Association of Malaysia that the analysis of the “B” sample collected from Lee had been completed by a laboratory in Norway, and it confirmed the “A” sample results.

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