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Tue, Aug 26, 2008
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Full review of table-tennis manager incident promised

SPORTS Minister Vivian Balakrishnan yesterday promised a full review of the episode that has left the fate of two Singapore table tennis officials in the balance.

Speaking to reporters after the Olympic Team reception at Raffles City Shopping Centre yesterday, he said he would look into the controversy over Singapore Table Tennis Association president Lee Bee Wah's remarks that team manager Antony Lee's services were no longer required.

She also said last weekend that the future of head coach Liu Guodong would be left to a coaching committee to decide.

"I am very concerned with the way it is spinning out of control because I don't want a situation where people say things or do things which destroy relationships," the Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports told the local media.

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