FOR the first time in four months, the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) and the Singapore Athletic Association (SAA) met face to face yesterday. It should have signalled that the war between the two parties was being resolved.

But after a one-hour meeting behind closed doors at the SSC's headquarters in Kallang, it was clear the two are still not able to work on the same page.

Speaking to reporters later, SAA president Loh Lin Kok slammed the conference as a 'cosmetic meeting designed to appease the public'.

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