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UPDATE (4.01pm): Kuala Lumpur SEA Games chef de mission Marina Chin, a former runner herself, was quoted by Berita Harian as saying: "Kalau ada seseorang itu tidak kiralah sebagus mana pun anda, sama ada anda ada potensi pingat emas sekali pun jika anda tidak ada disiplin dan tidak boleh mengikuti peraturan yang ditetapkan persatuan, maka persatuan bolehlah memutuskan untuk melakukan sesuatu." -----   SPRINTER S. Komalam Shally (pic) breaks her silence following her dismissal from the national women's 4x100m team just days before the Kuala Lumpur SEA Games. The emotional 29-year-old reveals all: "I was asked to attend a meeting at the fifth floor of the National Sports Council building. I was in the meeting room and in there were team manager Datuk Salim Parlan and several coaches. I was then told that due to my disciplinary issue, I have been dropped from the SEA Games relay team. I was shocked. I kept quiet for awhile, didn't know what to say...

A member of the record-breaking women's 4x100m team has been dropped. (Picture from NST Online) Sprinter S. Komalam Shally (second from left) was dropped from the record-breaking women's 4x100m relay team just days before the start of the Kuala Lumpur SEA Games. Komalam was dropped last Friday apparently over her "bad behaviour". "She was accused of belittling the younger sprinters but Komalam claims she was merely trying to motivate them," said an insider. The matter was brought to the Olympic Council of Malaysia's board yesterday and it was decided that an inquiry be conducted over her dismissal. A committee, overseeing the inquiry, will meet Malaysian Athletics Federation (MAF) officials and coaches today before possibly meeting the athletes tomorrow. Many are baffled to why the drastic decision was made just days before the Games. If true Komalam had "disciplinary issues", the matter should have been handled earlier or at le...