SINGAPORE — Beleaguered national swimmer Amanda Lim said she remains focused on becoming the 'first woman in Singapore' to meet the 'A' qualifying time for the Paris Olympics Games in 2024, adding that she has cooperated fully with the authorities and tested negative in all the drug tests.
SINGAPORE — Beleaguered national swimmer Amanda Lim said on Wednesday she remains focused on becoming the"first woman in Singapore" to meet the "A" qualifying time for the Paris Olympics Games in 2024, adding that she has cooperated fully with the authorities and tested negative in all the drug tests.
Olympic champion and national swimmer Joseph Schooling had also confessed to the use of cannabis, although his drug tests were negative, the Ministry of Defence said in aIn response to TODAY's queries on Wednesday, Lim, 29, said that she had worked and cooperated with all the relevant authorities in all the procedures,"including all testings which I have tested negative".
SportSG has said that it intends to thoroughly review the circumstances behind Schooling's and Lim's cases and determine theTODAY has reached out to CNB to confirm if Lim had tested negative for all her drug tests. Lim did not respond to TODAY's question on whether she had confessed to consuming cannabis.
Lim had been competing for Singapore since 2007. She is an 11-time Southeast Asian Games gold medalist and an Asian Swimming Championships bronze medalist.
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