Ashley Liew's management company ONEathlete yesterday reiterated its support for the 32-year-old, a day after his fellow marathoner Soh Rui Yong was served a lawyer's letter by the Singapore National Olympic Council for his statements on the 2015 SEA Games marathon.
It posted a statement on its website that read:"ONEathlete continues to stand by our earlier response... and will defer to SNOC's processes that are ongoing at the moment.It is also"grateful to the SNOC for working through the due processes to follow up with and provide greater clarity on this matter".
Soh, the 2015 and 2017 SEA Games champion, had last October disputed Liew's account of events at the 2015 SEA Games in Singapore, for which the latter was given a special award for sportsmanship by the SNOC. Liew was also awarded the Pierre de Coubertin World Fair Play Trophy by the International Fair Play Committee in 2016.