KUALA LUMPUR: Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin has stressed that the top Malaysian shuttler who was found positive for a doping test in his sample A, did not take drugs.
He said all quarters must understand that the banned substance which caused the national athlete to be found positive by the doping test was ‘dexamethasone’, type of pain killer for an injury (which is permissible in sports).
“The athlete is not a drug addict, he did not inject heroin or take ecstacy.
“This matter involves a doping substance which is called dexamethasone,” he told reporters after chairing the 2014 Asian Games post-mortem meeting at Dewan Komanwel, National Sport Council (MSN) here, yesterday. — Bernama