There was surprise but also sympathy as members of the local sports fraternity reacted on Tuesday (Aug 30) to news of
National football team captain Hariss Harun said:"The news comes as a surprise, but what's done is done.
"He made a mistake, he confessed, showed remorse, and what is important now is that he gets all the help he needs to stay clean and come back to be the Jo we know." The Ministry of Defence said in a statement on Tuesday that Schooling had admitted to consuming cannabis overseas in May when he was on short-term disruption from full-time national service to train and compete in the Hanoi SEA Games from May 12 to 23.
National sports body Sport Singapore also revealed in a statement that the Central Narcotics Bureau had investigated Schooling, 27, and fellow national swimmer Amanda Lim, 29, for the consumption of cannabis.
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