KUALA LUMPUR: Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said the contract of Yang Zhuliang, the country’s diving head coach, was not extended due to the existence of a culture and environment of fear among some national diving athletes.
He said Zhuliang allowed the culture and environment to spread to the point of inviting rape, sexual harassment, violence, beatings, bullying and threats to athletes, even though the Chinese-born trainer was not involved in the matter.
Khairy said the training environment and atmosphere of the national squad team became more complicated after a trainer, who was close to Zhuliang, was charged at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court on Oct 11 with raping a national athlete.
“After the rape case, I asked Marina Chin to investigate how such a thing could be avoided in the national sport. Her investigation showed the exi ...
