No more fun in sports?

I played a decent round of golf at Berjaya Hills Resort at Bukit Tinggi on Monday afternoon...and last night scored a free-kick goal for the Sportswriters Association of Malaysia (SAM) team in a friendly football match against Hijau Kuning dot.com at Kompleks Majlis Sukan Negara (MSN) at Shah Alam. Felt great about the goal but not the final score of the match!
For us, sports is fun for sure. Let's hope our sportsmen/women and athletes will also continue to find joy in their game. However, that has not been case for a couple of our national track athletes off late. Out of the sudden, they were put in a bad light as trying to evade drug testing! For crying out loud, THEY DONT DESERVE THIS!!! No thanks to the Majlis Sukan Negara (MSN)....or as later pointed out, Institut Sukan Negara (ISN).
There is a teeny weeny question mark on MSN/ISN's timing and the real purpose to suddenly instruct the girls (national athletes) to undergo drug testing. The athletes were caught in the middle, becoming victims of another episode of "power show" between MSN and Malaysian Amatuer Athletics Union (MAAU). It's no secret at all that MSN Director General, Datuk Zolkples Embong still bears a long standing grudge against MAAU's Deputy President, Karim Ibrahim. Zolkples simply could not stand Karim, vise versa!! Surely on his fine and authoritative days at his office in Bukit Jalil, Zolkples could not stop but realise that Karim is the ONLY ONE among national sports officials in this country would DARE point out whatever "wrong-doings" by Datuk Zol or the MSN/ISN.
Matters have gone worse between Zol and Karim with the latest issue involving national athletes who were just excited to undergo training in Bulgaria, last month. Now, parents of the athletes are duly worried. Is it worth for their daughters to pursue their athletic career if there are pressures from all sides? Not just on the track, but the "power shows" between MSN and MAAU. Some parents even recalled the darkest moment in Malaysian sports history when a young female athlete allegedly took her own life due to "outside pressures" in the early 90-s. Is it the same kind of pressure?